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You might want to leave before I change my mind, and let her beat you to a pulp with her tiny, ineffectual fists.

Tetrodotoxin can be found in the liver, ovaries, and skin, and accidental death is the common result of ineffectual removal.

"Looks like V-fib, " said the nurse -- the patient's heart contractions were disordered and ineffectual.

and let her beat you to a pulp with her tiny, ineffectual fists.

The middle class is weak and ineffectual and tends to become dependent on and subservient to the ruling class .

The sun sank down, and in the sky floated a thin, ineffectual moon.

German return fire, which starts after a while is ineffectual, but my brave jack tars start punishing the German line.

The minister had been widely criticized for his ineffectual management of the economic crisis.

This time the League may feel compelled to take part, but find that just as ineffectual.

He promises that North Korea's treaty-breaking will have consequences, but so far these have consisted mostly of ineffectual scolding.

The Fed already has such a bureau; it is ineffectual because the Fed cares about the solvency of banks, not the solvency of their customers.

The deaths from ineffectual rescue after ascending the well and from underground aerial tramway count up to 73.

Psychologists have tried to figure out why overeating is such an appealing, though ineffectual, way to deal with stress.

The contemporary Church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound.

She could scarcely toss her head gracefully. Her hands were almost ineffectual.

Less out of pride than out of awareness of our ineffectual condition.

Rather than giving up on an ineffectual boss, focus on what you can do to fill in the holes.

John O'Donohue said it all: "No matter how dull or ineffectual a life may be, something eternal is happening. "

Ginny wrapped herself in the tiny and ineffectual airline blanket and clutched the package to her chest.

This explains why the measures taken by the central government to improve coal industry regulation are largely ineffectual.

To date, Pakistani military operations against jihadists in the tribal areas have been bloody but ineffectual.

The British tripartite system of oversight was ineffectual in the Northern Rock crisis.

But we have also seen plenty of examples in politics and elsewhere of honest leaders who were surprisingly ineffectual.

However, such censorship is ineffectual and fails to substantively restrict access to even the most "threatening" ideas.

The Holocaust is increasingly becoming a faint and ineffectual memory and the Arab states are increasingly powerful and assertive.

That will be seen as an ineffectual response by development campaigners.

But such changes risk being either ineffectual or interfering with the liquidity of stockmarkets.

Dissertations that sound choppy or stuttered are for the most part ineffectual and will most likely fail to impress.

Men are continually sentencing each other; but, whether we be judges or criminals, the sentence is ineffectual unless we continue ourselves.

Poorly understood geomechanical conditions may result in suboptimal completions and ineffectual reservoir stimulations.

Big Brussels initiatives to arrest Europe's long-term economic decline have proved ineffectual.

The Bradley Effect will have proved ineffectual, and the unquiet ghost of Tom Bradley will finally be laid to rest.

where their action is ineffectual, they shall submit a written memorandum asking the unit's leader to handle it.

For those patients who are ineffectual to "three steps therapy" this method is a safe, effective and cheap analgesic means.

That line of reasoning is weak. . . and completely ineffectual.

Beijing's efforts to support its ailing stock market range from incremental to ineffectual.

and after several ineffectual attempts to catch them in the tin bucket he forbore.

Programs based solely on cost have proven ineffectual or even counter-productive.

If the banks overshoot this month then it will make their policies look meaningless and ineffectual and that cannot happen.

From a practical standpoint, chindogus are(almost) completely ineffectual.

If elected, it is already clear that either of them will be the weakest and most ineffectual vice president in modern history.

The Placebo effect is when an ineffectual substance that is believed to have healing properties produces the desired effect.

Mr Zenawi has already splintered the ineffectual opposition parties with the liberal use of torture and imprisonment.

Rallies and the like are ineffectual as Candace has observed and she quit attending them.

Heading the program, though, is an ineffectual bureaucrat named Wikus Van De Merwe (Sharlto Copley).

The persuasion of the speaker was ineffectual.

Ineffectual reforms will not calm the masses.

Michael Imperioli's edgy talents are wasted as an ineffectual cop.

Many people wonder why Barack Obama has proved so ineffectual in his aim of reviving two-state talks in the Middle East.

Critics have already predicted it will be either ineffectual or dangerous.

Not availing; ineffectual or useless.

an ineffectual effort to block the legislation.

To make ineffectual or invalid; nullify.

An ineffectual treatment for cancer.

The searchlights were ineffectual in the fog.

She had felt at the same time that he was helpless and ineffectual.

It's your tiny, ineffectual fists.

Even if the thing being suggested truly is impossible, saying it is can make you look ineffectual or incapable.

Not long since I was present at the auction of a deacon's effects, for his life had not been ineffectual

But he is considered rather ineffectual and unlikely to deliver the goods, especially since he heads an unwieldy coalition of nine parties

On Reducing the Producing of Ineffectual Cold Water in Central Hot Water Supply

(of speech or action) ineffectual; useless