ineffectiveness [
`ɪnə'fɛktɪvnɪs]
[计] 无结果, 无效
ineffectiveness[ noun ]
lacking the power to be effective
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Ineffectiveness \In`ef*fect"ive*ness\, n.
Quality of being ineffective.
- "If our problems continue to degenerate and if our institutions continue demonstrating ineffectiveness, the totalitarian temptation will visit us sooner or later," said a Peruvian political analyst, Luis Pasara.
- Yet if the nation was unprepared for war, Washington was the center of its ineffectiveness.
- "My own view is the latter is the case." Particularly troubling to Mr. Shanker and others is the seeming ineffectiveness of stiffer course requirements ordered by legislatures in nearly all the states during the 1980s.
- He is taken aback in an interview when asked whether, as mayor, he plans on reforming the political "fiefdoms" that perpetuate the monumental ineffectiveness of New York's school system.