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They also say the agency is ineffectual when it comes to its other main area of oversight, antitrust and competition, or ensuring market fairness.
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“The reasons for the delay were varied and complex and included fierce competition over finite resources, bitter interpersonal rivalries, and ineffectual scientific management,” the 2019 study in Physics Today noted.
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When Superman and Batman doffed their costumes to become Clark Kent or Bruce Wayne, they revealed personae as ineffectual as Don Diego, the ennui-ridden, apolitical dandy who delights in playing parlor tricks with his handkerchief.
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This model is meaningfully distinct from the constituency statutes in some states that seek to strengthen stakeholder interests, but that stakeholder advocates condemn as ineffectual.
50 YEARS LATER, MILTON FRIEDMAN’S SHAREHOLDER DOCTRINE IS DEADJAKEMETHSEPTEMBER 13, 2020FORTUNE
Who can understand its nature, its operations, the sufficiency which is not sufficient, and the efficacy which is ineffectual.
A PHILOSOPHICAL DICTIONARY, VOLUME 1 (OF 10)FRANOIS-MARIE AROUET (AKA VOLTAIRE)
We had heard the roar of her guns, and the quick, ineffectual firing from Fort McAllister.
THE BOYS OF '61CHARLES CARLETON COFFIN.
Gaolers and soldiers, utterly taken aback by this sudden onslaught, made but ineffectual resistance.
JACK HARKAWAY'S BOY TINKER AMONG THE TURKSBRACEBRIDGE HEMYNG
In some places an ineffectual resistance was made, and several lives lost on both sides.
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXE
A rift in the opposition was started, and an attempt to close it by a conference two days later was ineffectual.
THE POLITICAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND - VOL. X.WILLIAM HUNT
Now let the great English classics hide their diminished heads and pale their ineffectual fires!
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