The argument that Parliament has become ineffectual must have a hollow ring to government ministers.
The first half saw Tevez, Aleksandar Kolarov and Johnson produce hopeful and ineffectual pot-shots for City.
Instead, the Administration proposes to redouble its efforts to secure still further, ineffectual agreements.
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This time the League may feel compelled to take part, but find that just as ineffectual.
And that perhaps is why most efforts to control nerves in that way are so ineffectual.
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However the commitments made remain largely ineffectual and their objectives have not been met.
For people previously resigned to seeing themselves as ineffectual, the centre's courses can be an inspiration.
Prime Minister Obuchi Keizo was unpopular and regarded as ineffectual when he took office last year.
As such, it came off as an ineffectual dud, not a memorable bit of political repartee.
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Mr Obama's personal intervention there was as ineffectual as his two forays to Copenhagen.
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In Kuwait's feisty but ineffectual parliament, Islamists have blocked reforms such as granting women the vote.
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The prosecution said scientific tests showed the devices to be completely ineffectual and lacking any grounding in science.
At best it has several, all ineffectual, and several views on the result it wants to see achieved.
In Canada's would-be secessionist province of Quebec , the ineffectual leader of the provincial Liberals, Daniel Johnson, resigned.
But even an ineffectual remedy is better than nothing, and bringing the case has also had other remedial effects.
The measures proposed have always been weak, ineffectual and are designed to avoid facing up to solving the problem.
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Mireya Moscoso, the current president, is widely regarded as weak and ineffectual, and her party's candidate is trailing badly.
It was just like his belated, ineffectual response on the BP oil spill.
There's also a proposal for an "honest opinion" defence to replace the current, rather ineffectual defence of "fair comment".
It is, above all, a damning indictment of ineffectual and indifferent school officials.
Few elements were well thought out, some were contradictory, large parts were ineffectual.
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In meetings with the Welsh government, LEAs complained about "protracted and ineffectual prosecutions" and asked ministers to consider fixed-penalty notices.
At the same time, various events have conspired to remind Italians of just how ineffectual the state in Italy remains.
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Mr Tsvangirai wants South Africa's ineffectual president, Thabo Mbeki, to be relieved of his duties attempting to mediate in Zimbabwe.
Monopolist Gates understands that slow-moving, ineffectual government intervention will not restrain him from sticking it to competitors and customers alike.
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.
It's likely that there will still be some lawsuits filed by MCI stockholders, but they will probably be ineffectual, says Pultz.
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