Sentence examples for ineffectual state from inspiring English sources

He thought of passing the weekend there, of the time spent in a dull, achy, ineffectual state of regret and obsession over lost moments and missed cues.

"Bill" is William Rogers, Nixon's ineffectual Secretary of State, who had been reduced to near-total irrelevance by his rival Kissinger.

Fighting corruption also defangs the most resonant complaint of the opposition.Launching corruption cases against his inner circle can also rein in excesses that make Mr Putin politically vulnerable and the state ineffectual.

And John Maynard Keynes, who is widely recognized as the brains behind post-war, state-led capitalism in the Western world, would have never supported the monstrosity of ineffectual and corrupt state-controlled enterprises, which dominated large portions of the developing world for much of the post-colonial era.

His advice to a lawyer complaining about the sentences was more civil, but so far ineffectual: "Write to your state legislator".

The survey's focus groups agreed that the "Labour Party was in a terrible state ("totally ineffectual", "total confusion")".

Having heard the explanations of local government officials as to why the state is so ineffectual in an area like Katine, I next went to Kampala to see what the government might have to say.

In Haiti, the last five centuries have combined to produce a people so poor, an infrastructure so nonexistent and a state so hopelessly ineffectual that whatever natural disaster chooses to strike next, its impact on the population will be magnified many, many times over.

Although in the course of pathological angiogenesis these two mechanisms might coexist, in the tumor microenvironment the abundance of pro-angiogenic circuitries, driven by a continuous deposition of new ECM polymers, appears to render the anti-angiogenic signals ineffectual thus favoring a perpetual state of angiogenesis.

The Holocaust is increasingly becoming a faint and ineffectual memory and the Arab states are increasingly powerful and assertive.

It consists of the view that mental phenomena are causally ineffectual, where one or more mental states do not have any influence on physical states.