Sentence examples for were as ineffective from inspiring English sources

The New Zealand half-back pairing of Peta Hiku and Kodi Nikorima were as ineffective as Widdop and Williams in the first half, but they would grow in stature as the second half wore on, Nikorima impressing after being brought in for Tuimoala Lolohea.

Instead, the Johnson administration not only took over the war, but chose means -- search and destroy missions in the South and calibrated bombing in the North, without any effort to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail -- that were as ineffective as they were destructive.

LPS exposure dramatically increased the stimulatory capability of control DCs, but DCs differentiated in the presence of LEF-M and subsequently exposed to an activation stimulus were as ineffective as immature control DCs in supporting T-cell proliferation (Fig. 3b).

Given that differential, efforts to prevent North-South trade were as ineffective King Canute's orders to hold back the waves.

The Vikings were as ineffective with the run game as you might expect without Adrian Peterson, and New England took advantage of this, limiting Minnesota to just 54 rushing yards in total.

Few public policies in Latin America are as ineffective as coca eradication.

This would be as ineffective as the long-standing and fruitless focus on the "deficit model" of environmental communication.

To seek to repress the democratic movement by force will be as ineffective as seeking to contain a tsunami.

That did not seem to make much of a difference, and witnesses said the soldiers had been as ineffective as the police.

"To cry out for the return of some mythical golden age would be as ineffective as it would be misguided," it said.

He was as ineffective as he was unfortunate, the victim of four consecutive ground-ball singles in the ninth inning that resulted in a 6-5 loss to the Florida Marlins.