The first half saw Tevez, Aleksandar Kolarov and Johnson produce hopeful and ineffectual pot-shots for City.
Mireya Moscoso, the current president, is widely regarded as weak and ineffectual, and her party's candidate is trailing badly.
In meetings with the Welsh government, LEAs complained about "protracted and ineffectual prosecutions" and asked ministers to consider fixed-penalty notices.
Furthermore, when a talented employee leaves that loss not only harms the company it can make the boss look weak and ineffectual.
Despite his best efforts to forge a consensus between developed and developing countries, the resulting Copenhagen Accord was weak and ineffectual.
Navigating the conditions we find ourselves in can be unpleasant at best, and at worst, it can cause one to feel anxious, depressed, hopeless, fearful, and ineffectual.
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The scene mocks Thatcher's Cabinet colleagues as being weak and ineffectual, and while Law admits he was worried about glorifying Thatcher, he said he tried to be fair to both sides.
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Thus their late and ineffectual response to Brown's insurrection.
Many Egyptians regarded the king as corrupt and ineffectual.
But poor employees are humiliated: the slowest worker on each shift must publicly explain his or her shortcomings, middle managers who fall short are named in the firm's weekly paper, and ineffectual senior managers must volunteer a pay cut.
In the end, tapping putts for hours may be the most boring form of practice in golf and might seem far more tedious and ineffectual than a new love match or a seemingly sweet new swing that helps keep a balky knee healthy.
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The visitors reappeared for the second half minus Steven Smith and the ineffectual Velicka with Novo and Lafferty introduced to the fray.
Ms Livni's pointed appeal to the prime minister to heed his security experts appeared to confirm reports that his top army generals and past and present heads of Mossad, Israel's external-intelligence service, all oppose an Israeli attack as foolhardy and ultimately ineffectual.
They were making massive cuts to staffing, closing down whole divisions and departments that had become ineffectual, and paring back purchases and new spending.
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Dovzhenko depicts such ardent figures as a crazed monk who looms over the embattled forests, maidens at their riverside rite, and two grandsons on divergent paths (an ineffectual nationalist and a rationalist revolutionary) with a spontaneous sympathy for their diverse forms of zealotry.
However the commitments made remain largely ineffectual and their objectives have not been met.
Prime Minister Obuchi Keizo was unpopular and regarded as ineffectual when he took office last year.
The prosecution said scientific tests showed the devices to be completely ineffectual and lacking any grounding in science.
The measures proposed have always been weak, ineffectual and are designed to avoid facing up to solving the problem.
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It is, above all, a damning indictment of ineffectual and indifferent school officials.
As for its rhetoric, as the EU's rush to threaten Israel for allegedly killing a terrorist shows, it is cowardly, ineffectual and self-defeating.
The current UN presence on the border, which is known as UNIFIL, has been criticized in the past as being ineffectual and accused of standing by and allowing Hezbollah to operate freely on the border.
At best it has several, all ineffectual, and several views on the result it wants to see achieved.
But with only about 10, 000 often ineffectual troops and police, well short of the 26, 000 that were promised by the end of this year, UNAMID remains pretty impotent.
Once one of the nation's most ineffectual, neglected and corrupt public education systems, Chicago's -- with 428, 000students in 559schools -- is now a model of sorts for urban public education.
This is because breaches of fiduciary duty are difficult for clients to prove without a corporate insider or whistleblower providing a roadmap and regulators have been generally ineffectual in ferreting out pension-related wrongdoing.
Pressure from America and Europe is not entirely ineffectual: it seems to have been the catalyst behind Mr Sharon's decision to drop his original demand that the Palestinians hand over the men responsible for Mr Zeevi's murder as Israel's condition for withdrawing.
If the U.S. government permits such flim-flams as parent-to-subsidiary laterals and barter arrangements as a substitute for cash to circumvent ILSA (and, any other sanction regime), it can forget about having sanctions serve in the future as an effective policy alternative to generally ineffectual diplomatic demarches and draconian military responses.
We predict the legislature will ultimately defer to the SEC and the SEC will resume its ineffectual regulation of the industry.
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The problem, say insiders, is a sales organization that was already ineffectual when Armstrong arrived and has since become downright dysfunctional.
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