Tom Frieden

The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients.

American Public Servant

Simon Mainwaring

More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

Businessman

Rosa Luxemburg

Under the leaden sway of Alexander III's government, the silence of the graveyard prevailed. Russian society, equally discouraged by the collapse of all hopes for peaceful reforms and by the apparent ineffectiveness of the revolutionary movement, was in the grip of a mood of depression and resignation.

Russian Activist

Kim Fields

Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.

American Actress

C. S. Lewis

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

British Writer

Tatiana Schlossberg

An inherent tension between the seeming ineffectiveness of immediate and individual action and the long view the government is trying to take here may be common to every society trying to reduce emissions and to encourage participation.

Hisham Matar

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is unable to be of much use. The aim is to render him powerless.

American Writer

T. J. Miller

There is no place for a person like me in a world that only takes itself seriously. Satire is so necessary but fairly ineffective.

American Actor

Phil Gingrey

Spending on largely ineffective programs - although well intentioned - is a detriment to fostering real job growth.

American Politician

Dick Van Dyke

Rob Petrie is who I really am - in personality and general ineffectiveness.

Use 'ineffective' when an action doesn't lead to the desired result, regardless of effort made.

Outcome Expectation

'Ineffective' often implies disappointment or failure to meet expectations.

Negative Implication

Use 'ineffective' to suggest that a different method may be needed.

Alternative Solutions

Apply 'ineffective' to describe people lacking the necessary skills for a task.

Skill Deficiency

Use 'ineffective' to indicate poor leadership or management outcomes.

Leadership Context

 and he'll get all the credit, but it was really the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader. So, as we're told that we should all be leaders, that would be really ineffective. If you really care about starting a movement, have the courage to follow and show others how to follow.

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 This makes the political system ineffective, because it has no control over the forces that shape our life. And you have basically two solutions to this either de-globalize the economy and turn it back into a national economy, or globalize the political system.

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 But it's still worthwhile to be aware of telltale clues, like minimal self-references, negative language, simple explanations and convoluted phrasing. It just might help you avoid an overvalued stock, an ineffective product, or even a terrible relationship.

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 why we need to say the following we need to stop applauding our politicians for spending hundreds of billions of dollars on ineffective green policies instead what we do need to do is to spend and encourage them to dramatically ramp up

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 but it’s ineffective in many situations. For example, the motion of the atmosphere is significantly influenced by factors including gravity and the earth’s rotation. Or take relatively simple things like the drag on buildings and cars.

Turbulence: One of the...

 but eventually those tools will become ineffective, and the death rate will soar back up again. And the world has gone through this where it paid attention and then didn't pay attention. Now we're on the upswing. Bed net funding is up.

Mosquitos, malaria and...

 and also frustrated by those stories, that I left my job so that I could study this full time, and I took a year to travel to different parts of the world to learn about effective and ineffective leadership practices in companies,

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 medicine had paid ineffective for voted the entirety of human history and how they were going down the right path so curative medicine came of age loyalty because doctors knew what actually causes disease

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 you'll reduce the disease burden but eventually those tools will become ineffective and the death rate will soar back up again and the world has gone through this where it paid attention and then didn't

 guess completely ineffective. We love big solutions to big problems, don't we? What if the facts of life don't work that way? What if the experience of having that conversation can't be mass-produced?

Ineffective

Not producing the intended results or outcome.

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Not having the skills or abilities to do a job properly.

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Outcome Expectation

Negative Implication

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