(a.) Not efficient; not producing the effect intended or desired; inefficacious; as, inefficient means or measures.
(a.) Incapable of, or indisposed to, effective action; habitually slack or remiss; effecting little or nothing; as, inefficient workmen; an inefficient administrator.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
(2) NADP+ bound at the C8 atom in the adenine moiety proved to be the most efficient ligand whereas that bound at the C3 atom of the ribose moiety was relatively inefficient.
(3) Neutral extracts are inefficient in both tests of promotion and inhibition of A I growth and contain an acid-activable component with an apparent molecular weight of 600 kd.
(4) However, inefficient initiation by the mutant enzyme leads to processive and stable ternary elongating complex.
(5) Intracellular phosphorylation of ddCyd in P388 cells was also very inefficient compared to that of 2'-deoxycytidine and uridine and not rate limited by its slow entry into the cells.
(6) Nearly $500m of US food aid is lost to waste, inefficiency and the profit margins of big American agribusiness, according to a report by aid groups urging reforms on how US food aid is sourced and delivered.
(7) 6 specific motives are pointed out which can be summarized in two motive classes: an inefficient expense-effect relation and low importance of physical activity.
(8) IgG coatings that resulted in inefficient Clq fixation promoted considerable functional impairment of monocytes within 1 hr.
(9) Scientific advances in control of the disease over the last three decades have produced effective chemotherapeutic agents, established the immunizing capacity of BCG vaccine, and demonstrated the superior value of bacteriologic diagnosis in symptomatic individuals over mass community x-ray surveys, which are both inefficient and costly.
(10) Existing ocular drug delivery systems are fairly primitive and inefficient, but the stage is set for the rational design of newer and significantly improved systems.
(11) At submillimolar levels of all four dNTPs, homologous recombination is inefficient, and a side reaction produces end-joined products.
(12) IgG, through its Fc fragment, directly stimulates particle ingestion, but is relatively inefficient at inducing particle binding.
(13) In the baby the turnover time is 5--6 sec on average but with a very wide spread; in the adult it is of the order of 30 sec, so that diffusion inefficiency of gas in the lung would be only 0.001 or 0.1%.
(14) Administrative inefficiency hinders even more the appropriate utilization of resources.
(15) High among the range of issues was the media dominance of the Globo group (whose journalists were chased away from demonstrations by an irate mob), inefficient use of public funds, forced relocations linked to Olympic real estate developments, the treatment of indigenous groups, dire inequality and excessive use of force by police in favela communities.
(16) After cerebral vasodilation variations in side-to-side asymmetry were shown to depend on the inefficiency of the collaterals and not on the degree of ICA obstruction or on the presence of cerebral infarction.
(17) EMR children generated more inefficient elaborations than did nonretarded children.
(18) To review procedures currently practiced in a Brazilian general hospital and to eliminate ineffective and inefficient practices.
(19) The main limitation of phototherapy is that it is inefficient, a limitation that seems to be imposed by transport processes in the body and the optics of skin rather than by the photochemical reactions on which it depends.
(20) More health complaints were placed by workers who were emotionally unstable, less relaxed, inefficient, rigid (e.g.
Maladministration
Definition:
(n.) Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Claimants of the benefit that PIP replaced, the very people whom Mr Duncan Smith resigns to defend, were previously at the sharp end of his maladministration.
(2) The maladministration of tax credits is causing great misery and needs to be reformed."
(3) If a legal challenge is mounted due to maladministration of the election, and the courts will be reluctant to intervene, Corbyn will find the legitimacy of his mandate put under forensic scrutiny in a court room and that may not be a pretty sight.
(4) Eric Pickles , the communities and local government secretary, is set to go on the attack on Tuesday when he publishes a report by accountants into allegations of maladministration and possible fraud by Tower Hamlets council.
(5) "It is time for his department to admit that maladministration and injustice costs.
(6) Mellor said the trust had been guilty of maladministration in the way it investigated events surrounding Joshua's death and its failure to explain two inappropriate email exchanges between staff at the trust.
(7) Other patients were given different overdoses, and there was one case of "maladministration of potassium-containing solutions causing death or severe harm".
(8) Recognition and understanding of impeding factors in the delivery of medical care are urgently needed to ensure that wrong planning does not lead to maladministration, which in turn causes misunderstanding, failure of communication and possibly rejection of essential health services.
(9) "We have not been able to agree with the ombudsman's findings of maladministration in relation to one aspect of our inquiry.
(10) "Stories of supporters from other clubs and political groups infiltrating the group emerged, and these were followed by the maladministration of Uefa, the poor quality of the stadium and the cowardice of police.
(11) The Labour government later apologised for the "maladministration" that contributed to the insurer's problems, but rejected recommendations that it should compensate all Equitable policyholders.
(12) O’Reilly also found the bank’s refusal to release any “meaningful information” about the findings of the investigation “constituted an instance of maladministration”.
(13) Personally I believe that the "right to appeal" should only apply where there are grounds for an appeal, such as maladministration by the admissions authority or failure to follow procedures.
(14) Corruption and maladministration are notorious among the political class.
(15) Deterring future migrants sits oddly with chaotic maladministration that delivers arbitrary decisions on who can stay.
(16) Instead a retired judge, Sir John Chadwick, was appointed to work out which policyholders had been hardest hit and what proportion of their losses could be attributed to maladministration.
(17) Mellor said she could not go as far as to say the head of midwifery had shown racial or ethnic prejudice, but her email "fell so far below the standards of respect and courtesy to be expected in these circumstances that it amounted to maladministration".
(18) Mark Peach, communications director of Agang SA, a party led by struggle stalwart Mamphela Ramphele, said: "What is disturbing is the possibility that Zuma is using rape – a serious problem in this country – to try to generate some sympathy for what is clearly a massive case of maladministration and in some instances, corruption, in his government."
(19) The DWP paid out more than £10m in compensation to claimants over benefits maladministration between 2011 and 2015.
(20) People are using food banks because, for reasons of lateness or insufficiency or maladministration, their benefits aren't enough to cover food; but as soon as they're in a sub-benefit category, their referrals are no longer a DWP problem?