Vote buying became increasingly insufficient.

Indeed, sometimes it leads to results that are inefficient, nasty, or both.

Those who claim that capital controls are ineffective seldom specifyat what they are presumed to be ineffective. A recent paper by Marcos Chamon, Atish Ghosh, Jonathan Ostry, and Mahvash Qureshi, economists at the IMF s Research Department, suggests that capital controls can be effective indeed.

Those who claim that capital controls are ineffective seldom specifyat what they are presumed to be ineffective.

But regional and international pressure on Assad has been ineffective.

What works in one setting is unlikely to work in another.

We've never had this before because Kyoto didn't work.

Why has the Fund s surveillance of the US economy been so ineffective?

This vast black economy makes VAT inefficient in most developing countries.

Bailing out inefficient automobile companies like General Motors only slows down the rate of progress.

China is stuck in a much more fundamental way, stuck between inefficient statism and free enterprise.

Some governments have demonstrated a better capacity than others for using funds well. In countries where governments are deficient, there are often alternative ways of providing assistance, including NGO s.

Instead, the bogeyman of financial globalization is used as an excuse for continuing to coddle inefficient and monopolistic domestic financial systems.

In countries where governments are deficient, there are often alternative ways of providing assistance, including NGO s.

Banks had their own incentives to lend wisely, and controls on lending would necessarily prove ineffective.

Russia will also benefit from an active foreign policy engagement with the EU's leading members.

Government interventions to date, mainly in the form of enhanced education, have proved largely ineffective.

But a strategic alliance with the EU in foreign and security policies remains unrealistic and inefficient.

Disaffection with an ineffective government might lead voters to acquiesce in a more authoritarian government.

However, simply providing access to such facilities can be surprisingly ineffective a significant number are never used.

In fact, however, they provide an invaluable check on sloppy and inefficient providers of public services.

But hoarding international reserves, mostly in the form of low yielding short term US Treasury securities, is expensive and inefficient.

The US Federal Reserve promised to hold down longer term rates, but its commitments in that direction now seem ineffective.

Yes, there is still a financial crisis in the US, but stoking inflation is an incredibly unfair and inefficient way to deal with it.

Indeed, any political union that the Eurogroup would endorse today would be disciplinarian and ineffective.

The UN Security Council, meanwhile, has become ineffectual, stymied by the great power interests of China and Russia.

The same goes for the banking system, which today consists of little besides an inefficient, state owned virtual monopolist.

Japan s Government has been rather ineffective in cleaning up the mess, for example by delaying for nearly a decade the re capitalization of Japanese banks.

The same applies to coal subsidies, except that the subsidies go to the most inefficient producers.

Clearly the Fund s surveillance of the US economy was ineffective, and its multilateral surveillance of financial markets no better.

Many are rejecting once dominant perspectives on poverty and deprivation, warning that they lead to ineffective policy prescriptions.

Trying to give these hopelessly inefficient enterprises a new lease on life would make Iraqis poorer without reducing the violence.

If the proposed subsidies in France and Germany have a defect, it is not that they are unnecessary, but that they do not go far enough.

Moreover, a high corporate tax rate is an ineffective and costly tool for producing revenues, owing to innovative financial transactions and legal tax avoidance mechanisms.

In other words, the US government was designed to be inefficient, in order to ensure that it could not easily threaten the liberty of its citizens.

For Russia's public knows deep in its bones that Russia's bloated yet ineffective state is the greatest threat to its economy.

Moreover, though Mexico elected its first president, Vicente Fox, from an opposition party after 71 years of one party rule, this new democratic government appears ineffective.

He has antagonized the world more than any other American president before him, seriously damaging America s soft power by inefficient and excessive use of its hard power.

In reality, however, losing a high paying job may be a lifetime event, and the supposed retraining that wage insurance would encourage for a laid off 50 year old worker often may be ineffective.

Empires emerge when a national group considers its existence inside its territorial borders either risky or ineffective, and embarks on a forced expansion that is usually connected with large scale violence.

Many observers consider QE2 a blunt instrument that is unlikely to achieve its objectives, although it may weaken the dollar, which many think will redress recurrent US trade deficits. But critics argue that QE2 may instead merely encourage more private investors to hold emerging market debt, which would have an impact on the currency, due to the price change, rather than on the quantity of money.

Many observers consider QE2 a blunt instrument that is unlikely to achieve its objectives, although it may weaken the dollar, which many think will redress recurrent US trade deficits.

These problems are due not to immigrants, but to our immigration controls, which are not only costly and cruel, but also ineffective and counterproductive.

The conclusions established that, in terms of its current substantive and procedural regulation, habeas corpus is extremely ineffective in protecting fundamental individual rights.

When the crisis hits with full force, the government would nationalize major banks and companies, with the resulting inefficiency then burying the Russian economy, just as it doomed the Soviet Union.