Sentence examples for ineffectual enforcement from inspiring English sources

This proposition doesn't mesh with an ineffectual enforcement policy and a border that, to most voters, looks like Swiss cheese.

The overlapping roles and relationships of the consultants in Suite 555 at 66 Canal Center Plaza offer a case study in the fluidity and ineffectual enforcement of rules intended to prevent candidates from coordinating their activities with outside groups.

That the fee is inadequate to provide a proper incentive, that the library does not instead charge $25 a day or $250 a day or impose a vigorous flogging (as described in the no-doubt-renewable "Mutiny on the Bounty"), bespeaks ineffectual enforcement tactics, not the freedom to keep a popular book past its due date.

They are banned in a handful of states, but those laws have proved largely ineffectual, and enforcement at the federal level has also been a disappointment to the concert business.

Going on tirades about how the local law enforcement is ineffectual and corrupt, and bringing in the F.B.I.

But lacking investigative powers, forensic expertise or means of enforcement, the beit din are wholly ineffectual in trying molesters.

Marijuana was essentially removed from law enforcement's playbook of self-serving, ineffectual drug war tactics.

Specifically, in 2010 the administration should focus on improving and reforming our congressional and presidential public financing systems, and on creating a new campaign enforcement system to replace the deadlocked and ineffectual Federal Election Commission.

If anything, the agency's failure to detect the Madoff scheme despite four ineffectual investigations would argue in favor of more, not less, enforcement spending.

He was disappointed by what he saw as Obama's ineffectual advocacy of immigration reform and his comparatively vigorous approach to enforcement.

He called on DHS to return to the Bush era of highly politicized, ineffectual and inhumane workplace raids, which put the focus of immigration enforcement on rounding up undocumented immigrants in massive, military-style operations, instead of going after employers who knowingly exploit the system.