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.
There always is the risk that it will be ineffectual or go too far and overregulate.
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.
However ineffectual Mr Putin's foreign policy looks after Ukraine, his authority at home is unchallenged.
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Even by the standards of this Government, that strikes one as ignoble as well as ineffectual.
He backed aerial spraying of coca and opium-poppy fields, even though it seemed ineffectual.
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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Griffith leaves co-stars Neal and Walter Matthau (in the role of Ineffectual Well-Intentioned Liberal) in the dust.
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He is sceptical about the new PCC role, believing it to be "too remote and too ineffectual".
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The prosecution said scientific tests showed the devices to be completely ineffectual and lacking any grounding in science.
During her otherwise rather successful stint as Secretary of State, her record on China was weak and ineffectual.
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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.
He promises that North Korea's treaty-breaking will have consequences, but so far these have consisted mostly of ineffectual scolding.
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.
Yet Japanese politics stumbles on, in its usual corrupt, complacent and ineffectual way.
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