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ineffectiveness |
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Translations ineffectiveness [ˌɪnɪˈfektɪvnɪs] N [of measure, policy, drug] → ineficacia f; [of person, committee] → incompetencia f, ineficacia f; [of effort, attempt] → infructuosidad f ineffectiveness n → Unwirksamkeit f, → Ineffektivität f; (of attempt) → Fruchtlosigkeit f, → Nutzlosigkeit f; (of person) → Unfähigkeit f How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But the most amazing example of the ineffectiveness of the orders given by the authorities at that time was Napoleon's attempt to stop the looting and re-establish discipline. By-and-by Celia would come in her quality of bridesmaid as well as sister, and through the next weeks there would be wedding visits received and given; all in continuance of that transitional life understood to correspond with the excitement of bridal felicity, and keeping up the sense of busy ineffectiveness, as of a dream which the dreamer begins to suspect. The child, she was very little more, broke out at last in speech, passionately, yet with a miserable fore-knowledge of the ineffectiveness of anything she might say. |
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