Sentence examples for long ineffective from inspiring English sources

They tend to abuse other fish, due to aggression, or be abused, due to ornamental bettas' long, ineffective fins, but can get along with some community fish such as small catfish.

Their progress can be compared with a "control group" of previous recipients of chemotherapy, a treatment long proved ineffective and painful.

Though long considered ineffective and sometimes crude, Mussorgsky's original scorings have been steadily replacing the alternative orchestrations that were once common.

Look to Texas next for a possible surprise: Republican Senator John Cornyn has long been ineffective, unpopular and, well, dumb.

The CCRB, long considered ineffective and toothless, had a new chairman chosen by Mayor de Blasio and heralded as a former civil rights litigator intent on fixing the agency.

In spite of the large number of serine proteinases targeted by Kunitz domains, they were long considered ineffective as thrombin inhibitors.

This process could develop at a relatively fast pace, thus avoiding the risk of leaving a patient for too long with ineffective medication.

The island of Puerto Rico has both a high population density and a long history of ineffective land use planning.

The 39-year-old OAU was long dismissed as ineffective, though it did help preserve the idea of sovereign borders.

Boudreau's one-dimensional approach to the series also cost him when he stayed far too long with an ineffective Alexander Semin.

An article in Time, Why long lectures are ineffective, suggested students could only focus for 15-minute intervals and therefore could not be expected to stay awake and engaged during the standard 50-minute lecture.