Splitting the baby is a common but ineffective strategy for resolving a dispute or negotiating a good business deal.
Out went the well-meaning but ineffective young liberal who had the admittedly wretched job of trying to get Russians, and their companies, to pay taxes.
Unfortunately, it gets lost amid endless and, at times, emotional explanations aimed to take down the idealistic that have saturated development with well-meaning, but ineffective, programs.
Most available data would seem to indicate strongly that the problem of cyber insecurity is in fact getting worse, despite heroic, but ineffective efforts to the contrary.
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Restricting the definition...could make an agreement easier to verify, but ineffective in achieving its purpose of protecting satellites....Furthermore, problems of weapon definition are compounded because some non-weapon space systems, including civil and commercial systems, could have characteristics which would make it difficult to frame a definition to distinguish them.
Vaccination can prevent uninfected individuals from getting the disease, but its ineffective if someone already has Hepatitis B.
But the ineffective Jadeja was magnificently caught by Broad just in front of the long-off boundary and then came the killer blow.
Electronic counter measure equipment was fitted to the Land Rover Fusilier Gentle was travelling in and was working correctly but was ineffective against the device.
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It seems possible to me that the Persians were a paper tiger, capable of putting huge numbers together but relatively ineffective, even incompetent, in using them.
Eventually, he recognized that efforts to manage trade not only played badly in Asia but also were ineffective against Japan.
Messi started in the first leg but was largely ineffective, and didn't get off the substitutes bench for the second.
This required explicit consent from recipients before spam could be sent but has proved largely ineffective as a deterrent.
Van Nistelrooy almost set up Paul Scholes, who had been ineffective, but he was denied by a good saving tackle by Luisao.
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Bing had bold ideas for fixing the city, but proved to be ineffective as mayor, often clashing with city unions and the City Council.
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Apparently tired of hearing pitches about the consumer takeover of the enterprise from too many startups and investors, Horowitz explains that enterprises usually have complicated processes for spending money, sometimes ineffective, but almost always arcane.
So what they're measuring is, is how effective are these ads over a one-week period, which means something to the advertising agency, and certainly you want to be effective rather than ineffective, but it means very little to how the movie will eventually do or even profitability.
Honest diplomacy would focus not on ratifying an ineffective new ban but on shoring up the 1925 Geneva Protocol.
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But such efforts have been ineffective in breaking the links, says the report.
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Lin finished with just three turnovers, a respectable showing for him, but he looked wild and ineffective on some drives.
But the thief rendered them ineffective, they said, by wearing a mask.
Those individuals who attempt to hoard knowledge, relationships, or resources to attain job security should not to be valued or viewed as indispensable, but should be admonished as ineffective and deemed a liability.
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Saying no to PowerPoint is not a rebellion against all presentations but against ugly, boring and ineffective presentations.
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But outsiders know that help is ineffective without co-operation, or at least non-interference, on the part of local officials and soldiers.
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But these measures proved to be ineffective due to a lack of control along the country's long borders and an increase in smuggling.
Before he arrived in Budapest, the Swedish policy of saving Jews by issuing them with travel documents was already in place, but was seen as chaotic and ineffective.
Yes, I know that we have to slow the growth of health spending and we definitely should look for wasteful or ineffective programs to cut, but spending will go up.
DeKosky says that there were two important conclusions to take away from the study: Ginkgo biloba is ineffective in battling dementia, but also that the herb is relatively safe.
But his forces are likely to prove ineffective unless he first manages to sort out who really commands them: his fragile new establishment, or the rump of Mr Saleh's old one.
It welcomed Mr Rennison's intervention but warned that his report might still prove ineffective.
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