He makes occasional appearances in the book to try ineffectually, it seems to shield the girls.

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They ensure that people and capital are ineffectually put to work and that no growth happens.

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Someone, after all, will have to make those painful decisions New Yorkers go on ineffectually talking about.

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But they are unlikely to experience once more Eldorado's long-suffering Pilar Moreno ineffectually berating caddish boyfriend Marcus Tandy with cries of "Marrrr-coos".

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Nothing is ironed, and there is a faint stain on the skirt that is yesterday's lunchtime soup ineffectually rubbed off with a Kleenex.

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Wales had been lucky not to concede inside two minutes, as goalkeeper Wayne Hennessey flapped ineffectually at Philipp Lahm's whipped cross from the left.

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It nibbles at problems, sometimes usefully, more often ineffectually.

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Its presidential candidates peripatetically alighted, weirdly and ineffectually, on such issues as vaccine scaremongering, secession, repealing the direct election of Senators, unspecified spending cuts, hinted disapproval of connubial acts between husbands and wives, even moon colonies.

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For Serbia itself, the republic that Mr Milosevic so brutally and ineffectually sought to aggrandise in four Balkan wars, the trial will, with luck, help to provide a more accurate account of recent history than the Serbia-as-victim version that Serbs still tend to believe.

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Finland, which assumes the Union's presidency on July 1st, has indicated its readiness to play host to the launch of such a conference in the second half of 1999 hoping, no doubt, that a new constitutional shindig might proceed with more gusto than the one that dragged ineffectually along in the run-up to the Amsterdam summit of 1997.

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