Earlier reports to Congress from other experts have repeatedly said that the debt limit is an ineffective means to restrain the growth of debt.

A 2008 panel concluded that technological fixes such as age verification and scans are relatively ineffective means of apprehending online predators.

All that survives of the others are chimneys, remnants of a largely ineffective means of heating.

Family First views injecting rooms as an expensive and ineffective means of responding to those with drug addictions.

ISPA has long argued that blocking is an ineffective and regressive means to address online copyright infringement".

Although it was never intended as a complete measure of environmental impact, it has come under attack as an ineffective means of finding the true environmental impact.

Criminal liability is an ineffective means of getting makers of legal goods like cigarettes and guns to change their behavior.

It proved to be an ineffective means of immunization but in 1908, Charles Mantoux found it was an effective intradermic test for diagnosing tuberculosis.

The mortars themselves are stated to have been an ineffective means of dispersal, due to the likelihood of the poison being consumed in the explosion.

Bans on advertising, moreover, are ineffective means of reducing lawyer overhead and of maintaining the quality of legal services provided.