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The sword is the braver way, although all ways are equally inefficacious.

It is regarded as medically unsound because partial interventions "are often highly traumatic and consistently inefficacious".

It is my belief, however, that, had I attempted a different order of composition, my faculties would not have been found so pointless and inefficacious.

Just as Percy had suggested, pregdolen had proved inefficacious when tested against a placebo.

The exposure of unwanted children was prohibited by law and voluntary abortion was not only forbidden but risky and relatively inefficacious.

The precaution, however, is quite inefficacious, for the Indians never fail to procure liquor of a worse kind, at a dearer price, from travelling pedlars.

During the course of the trial, Dr. Olivieri became concerned about evidence that pointed to the toxicity of the study drug and to the drug being inefficacious.

However, this general sense of right and wrong is a feeble, inefficacious defense for Ambrosio when he is confronted by the physical presence and influence of demons.

As this allows for the possibility that the mind is causally inefficacious and only contingently related to the physical, supervenience physicalism is compatible with epiphenomenalism.

Bayta joined the three girls who were taking turns at the eternally applied and eternally inefficacious remedies of shoulder-patting, hair-smoothing, and incoherent murmuring.

In his decision, however, Judge Leavitt said the invocation of catch-phrases like nexus and proportionality was "out of context and entirely inefficacious for the analysis required herein."

Based on the preclinical results mentioned above, clinical trials were run for both Parkinson's disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but omigapil proved to be inefficacious for both diseases.

Indeed, 'by handling the event as a police-crime story, not a political one', the Journal's coverage 'probably reduced the political power of already inefficacious poor people'(Paletz and Entman, 1981:117).

Thus, neighborhoods like South Boston that exhibited collective efficacy for generations can become inefficacious in brief periods of time as the result of external factors, of which economic change may be the most powerful.

It may have been these constant showers of snuff which gave his ancient priestly garments their green faded look for the red handkerchief, blackened, as it always was, with the snuff-stains of a week, with which he tried to brush away the fallen grains, was quite inefficacious.

The chairman of the panel, Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, said he was concerned that "we can no longer be reasonably confident that the F.D.A. is able to detect the entry of unsafe or inefficacious generic drugs in the nation's pharmacies."

However, this programme will not be able to achieve a high degree of success without national policies and programmes addressing the profit margins of SP versus AQ drugs, advertising and sales of unapproved drugs, the enforcement of correct dosage labeling, and retrieval from the market of inefficacious drugs.

The raw bacon which clumsy Molly spares from her own scanty store that she may carry it to her neighbour's child to "stop the fits," may be a piteously inefficacious remedy; but the generous stirring of neighbourly kindness that prompted the deed has a beneficent radiation that is not lost.

He was fiercely attacked in a satirical work by Martin Serra, a Dominican, who declaimed against "the indifferent, headless, inefficacious writings of certain theologians, especially the olla podrida of Father Philip Aranda", an assault which almost evoked an interdict against the church of the friar.

Contending for the rights of woman, my main argument is built on this simple principle, that if she be not prepared by education to become the companion of man, she will stop the progress of knowledge and virtue; for truth must be common to all, or it will be inefficacious with respect to its influence on general practice.