The first half saw Tevez, Aleksandar Kolarov and Johnson produce hopeful and ineffectual pot-shots for City.
During her otherwise rather successful stint as Secretary of State, her record on China was weak and ineffectual.
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Mireya Moscoso, the current president, is widely regarded as weak and ineffectual, and her party's candidate is trailing badly.
Yet Japanese politics stumbles on, in its usual corrupt, complacent and ineffectual way.
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.
Here the criminals are psychotic, volatile and cruel, littering the mean streets of Dublin with discarded heroin paraphernalia and running rings around a clueless and ineffectual Garda.
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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Its voters clearly credit some of this prosperity to Mr Modi's administration, which is notably less venal and ineffectual than those Indians in most other states have to endure.
Right now the weak and ineffectual Afghan government is in no position to negotiate with the Taliban, other than to make significant concessions of either territory or principle, or both.
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.
Bix, 61, shows that Hirohito was from an early age steeped in military training and prepared for a much more active role in governing than his father, a sickly and ineffectual Emperor.
Second, in the absence of an overarching plan to diminish America's contribution to global warming, individual steps such as this one, or the administration's rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline, begin to seem arbitrary and ineffectual.
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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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But such objections hardly reflect the public view, increasingly strongly held, that the police are untrustworthy and ineffectual and that the judicial system is prey to the influence of a body politic that is itself corrupt: witness the dismally long list of politicians convicted of corruption or under investigation.
The visitors reappeared for the second half minus Steven Smith and the ineffectual Velicka with Novo and Lafferty introduced to the fray.
He is sceptical about the new PCC role, believing it to be "too remote and too ineffectual".
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Once again, worryingly, it shows how Indians are becoming inured to frequent assaults on free speech and an ineffectual state.
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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Mrs Gandhi the widow of one assassinated ex-prime minister and the daughter-in-law of another has been an ineffectual and aloof leader of the opposition.
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.
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