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months of political instability as South Korea was led by a weak and ineffectual government. This instability was broken by the 16 May 1961 coup led by...

that claims or appears to be powerful or threatening but is actually ineffectual and unable to withstand challenge. The expression became well known internationally...

minority. Three of those sons lived long enough to become king; but their ineffectual reigns, and the unpopularity of Catherine's regency, helped to spark...

command at the age of thirty, when he was given command of a notoriously ineffectual campaign during the War of the First Coalition, a continental war following...

image that favours their interests Paper tiger – Chinese phrase for an ineffectual threat Pooh-pooh – Fallacy in informal logic Red herring – Fallacious...

in particular by undermining the deeply flawed, though not entirely ineffectual, Congress and Supreme Court. Carlos Prío Socarrás, a protégé of Grau...

and lack of Washington cooperation to portray Carter as a weak and ineffectual leader. Carter was the first elected incumbent president since Herbert...

incognito, to win Infanta Maria Anna directly, but the mission proved an ineffectual mistake. Maria Anna detested Charles, and the Spanish confronted them...

advancing toward the fence around the police station; tear-gas had proved ineffectual. There were 249 victims in total, including 29 children, with 69 people...

embroiled in several financial scandals, his leadership became increasingly ineffectual. Gandhi was regarded as a non-abrasive person who consulted other party...

Roeper, Richard (January 26, 2024). "Miller's Girl the tedious tale of an ineffectual teacher and his infatuated student". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from...

and returned to New York, where he escaped the damaging label of an ineffectual intellectual. On December 2, 1886, Roosevelt married his childhood friend...

chagrin of the British Governor-General who continued to deal with the ineffectual Sultan. Consequently, Britain encouraged the development of a constitutional...

Dinham. The 2002 Food Summit organized by FAO was considered to have been ineffectual and unproductive by the official participants. Social movements, farmers...

counted when they are shipped to the consumer, rendering the tactic "ineffectual". A growing trend early in the first decade of the 21st century was to...

part of the English weekly music press who considered the movement as ineffectual, and it was disliked by many of the groups it purported to describe....

drought, it sees poverty and despair turn racial tensions deadly when the ineffectual sheriff is unable to stand against the town. A young Mexican boy is lynched...

heroes: suave, womanizing CIA agent Nick Pirandello (Belushi) and weak and ineffectual insurance agent Bob Wilson (Ritter). After scientists accidentally spill...

Germany began almost immediately upon the outbreak of war at first it was ineffectual; it was only later, particularly under the leadership of Air Chief Marshal...

covert operations across the world, and although widely considered an ineffectual administrator, he was popular among his employees, whom he had protected...