Sentence examples for ineffectual system from inspiring English sources

I feel impotent in the face of an embedded but often ineffectual system, and angry that it often makes us look incompetent.

But the report released Tuesday contradicted that claim, and described failures to share information or to act promptly on inquiries as well as an ineffectual system of screening air travelers that allowed Mr. Merah to fly to Pakistan in August 2011 without the authorities being alerted.

It is in this arena that controversies about the maintenance of the status quo, the protection of ineffectual systems, the stifling of innovation, and the development of successful healthcare treatments and practices inevitably arise.

Donors have been accused of an "unfortunate mix of risk avoidance and 'political correctness'" avoiding full alignment through "transitional mechanisms" that essentially maintain the status quo, persisting with conditionality that ensures their preferred outcomes, but hesitating to confront corruption, ineffectual systems and project perks in partners [ 33].

Bono Mack voted for the Ryan/Romney/Republican budget, which (among other things) would dismantle Medicare as we know it and leave an ineffectual voucher system in its place.

Far too many inmates are languishing behind bars serving ridiculous sentences for minor drug infractions, and its contributed to an overcrowded, ineffectual prison system.

In these population groups, primary health care services are often more fragmented as a result of chronic under-funding, staff shortages, and ineffectual organisational systems.

That topped only the Bronx, which has a notoriously ineffectual criminal justice system.

There was an overwhelming odor of mildew, made worse by a sputtering and ineffectual air-conditioning system.

• To the Editor: The energy bills coming out of both the House and the Senate prove yet again how utterly ineffectual our political system is at really solving the nation's biggest problems.

Foreshadowing his own political dramas "The Informer" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance," Ford shows a legal system rendered ineffectual by its own uninspired agents as well as by its rules and scruples, and conjures higher as well as lower varieties of outlaws.