(a.) Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal.
Example Sentences:
(1) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(2) However, low dose heparin prophylasix is relatively ineffective in patients having hip surgery, and has not been evaluated in patients having other types of orthopaidic surgery.
(3) This mode of treatment remains appropriate for cases where antibiotics are ineffective and surgery impracticable.
(4) The excitatory effect of L-glutamate on PGCL sympathoexcitatory neurons was blocked by iontophoretic applications of kynurenic acid, whereas identical amounts of 8-OH kynurenic acid were ineffective.
(5) EGTA was ineffective in removing calmodulin from particulate preparations, but treatment with the tervalent metal ion La3+ resulted in a loss of up to 98% of calmodulin activity from these preparations.
(6) The use of UEBP-deficient female rat liver cytosol revealed that the afore-mentioned steroids are ineffective with respect to estrogen reception.
(7) Anti-histamine and anti-serotonin drugs, as well as substances capable of blocking synthesis of prostaglandins or activation of the kinin system, and also atropine, were ineffective in reducing the responses to TsTX or electrical stimuli.
(8) Treatment was ineffective and stopped in 12 cases (24.5%); the inefficacy was primary in 6 and tachyphylactic in the other 6.
(9) The delirium improved when the treatment was restored, whereas neuroleptics proved ineffective.
(10) The CI treatment induced almost full protection against these behavioral effects of saline stress but DS treatment was ineffective.
(11) In addition, it has excellent antibacterial activity against indole-positive Proteus strains against which conventional Cephalosporins are ineffective.
(12) Multimeric analysis of von Willebrand factor is necessary to diagnose von Willebrand's disease type II, in which DDAVP infusions should not be given since they are ineffective or may cause thrombocytopenia.
(13) It is concluded that under conditions in which other calcium release mechanisms operate well, InsP3 is relatively ineffective at releasing calcium from the SR in amounts sufficient to induce contraction.
(14) Hexa- and octasaccharides induced a slight increase in the number of acrosome reacted spermatozoa and disaccharides were ineffective.
(15) TE-031 was ineffective in 1 case of otitis media, but efficacious in 10 of 10 (100%) cases of upper respiratory infection, 15 of 18 (83.3%) cases of bronchitis and pneumonia, 5 of 6 (83.3%) cases of pertussis, 13 of 13 (100%) cases of mycoplasmal pneumonia, 4 of 4 (100%) cases of Chlamydia psittaci pneumonia, 16 of 16 (100%) cases of gastroenteritis (including 15 cases of Campylobacter gastroenteritis), and 1 (100%) case of impetigo.
(16) Preemployment screening methods have been ineffective in predicting those at risk, and in curbing the impact of back problems in industry.
(17) On siratro, CIAT899 induced nodules that were ineffective in acetylene reduction, whereas the EPS-deficient mutants induced effective nodules.
(18) Oligo- or polyribonucleotides are relatively ineffective initiators of polydeoxynucleotide polymerization.
(19) The H1-selective agonist, 2-(2-aminoethyl)thiazole was ineffective at doses 100 times greater than those of histamine.
(20) Anxiety disorders are no longer regarded as consequences of conflicts and ineffective defences or as concomitants of other psychiatric disorders but rather as disorders of their own.
Piffle
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Is it hopelessly old fart-ish to hope exposure that to the horrors described by Buergenthal will remind all of us of the piffling nature of our next household conflagration about who gets to wear which pair of jeans, or whether homework on the weekend really constitutes a hardship – or even, somehow, temper the demand for new electronic equipment?
(2) If he can't do this here, then his global rhetoric will look thin indeed - and it's no use announcing some piffling sum and pretending it will do.
(3) Dan Nolan (@dannolan) PEFO more like piffle boom August 13, 2013 3.40am BST Bowen is asked whether the assumptions in PEFO are a reflection on the efficacy or otherwise of the PNG Solution.
(4) The bottom line for us is they were asking the taxpayers for $50m to buy new plant and equipment … so Coca-Cola Amatil could make a larger profit,” Hockey said, as he campaigned for next weekend’s by-election in the Brisbane seat of Griffith But Sharman Stone, the Coalition backbencher who represents the area, said the government is “scapegoating” SPC Ardmona and exaggerating “piffling” issues in the companies’ enterprise agreement to draw the struggling fruit manufacturer into a “union witch-hunt”.
(5) The government is “scapegoating” SPC Ardmona and exaggerating “piffling” issues in the companies’ enterprise agreement to draw the struggling fruit manufacturer into a “union witch-hunt”, the Coalition backbencher Sharman Stone has said.
(6) As a result, disabled people are losing more than any other group, not by some piffling, coincidental amount, but by a factor of three or four; by thousands of pounds a year.
(7) It’s true that claimants are sanctioned for piffling reasons .
(8) The targets aren't piffling, incidentally – they are significantly beyond "answering to your name".
(9) There was never any question of me being offered it, or of it being debated … It’s just, as they say, poppycock and piffle.” The tensions surrounding the reshuffle were illustrated in the early evening as a heated discussion appeared to break out in Corbyn’s office after the Labour leader outlined his thinking for the reshuffle to Benn.
(10) Eurosceptics are right to think that the terms secured are piffling, even if he gets everything on the table.
(11) But there is, at least, anecdotal evidence to suggest that the often perceptive mayor's notion is an "inverted pyramid of piffle".
(12) Over the past century they were used not only to "explain" this piffle about cornflakes but, more insidiously, to explain differences in achievement between black and white schoolchildren in the US.
(13) Cameron found himself on the back foot, defending his plans to renegotiate the terms of Britain's EU membership in the face of Lawson's contemptuous assessment that he will secure only "piffling changes".
(14) The DfE’s guidelines on the use of exclamation marks for its spelling and grammar tests were “piffle” and “tortuous nonsense”, according to Blower.
(15) But Stone, the member for the seat of Murray which includes Shepparton, said the provisions were “piffling” and “add up at most to a few thousand dollars when the company has been losing millions at the plant because of the broader economic conditions and because of the government’s policies.” The “wet” allowance, she said, had only ever been paid to workers who provided their own protective “space suits” to be worn when using caustic soda to clean the plant.
(16) Sandler, a perennial Razzie "favourite", saw his film beat rivals such as Will and Jaden Smith sci-fi bomb After Earth , festive celluloid piffle A Madea Christmas and ensemble turkey Movie 43 , all of which scored six nominations.
(17) These sentiments are dismissed by Merivel's Quaker friend, Pearce, as "pagan, freakish piffle", but Merivel clings to them, orders an artist's smock and a floppy hat, canvases, pigments and brushes, and sets about his task with his characteristic over-enthusiasm, only to understand very quickly that his work has no value whatsoever.
(18) But he wrote a load of racist, reactionary, negative, neocon piffle."
(19) There was never any question of me being offered it, or of it being debated … It’s just, as they say, poppycock and piffle.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest “It’s poppycock and piffle”: Diane Abbott dismisses shadow foreign secretary rumour Lewis, a new MP who has served in the army in Afghanistan, said he would not be keen to take on a shadow cabinet role so quickly.
(20) Instead, I'm snacking on the scraps of joyous piffle like Alex Polizzi's The Fixer .