A leading Democrat swiftly responded by demanding that Representative Doc Hastings, a Washington Republican, recuse himself as the ethics chairman, saying he had shown ineffectual leadership and had potential conflicts of interest.

These included charges that "Mr. Smith has failed to live up to his promise" and had shown "ineffectual and visionless leadership" at the head of the Labour Party.

Their pessimistic assessments were based not on the country's economic fundamentals but on its ineffectual political leadership.

Charles Ensley, whose local represents 15,000 social workers, announced his candidacy in a telephone interview, saying that District Council 37, the nation's largest municipal union, had ineffectual leadership and needed a change.

The Beersheba municipality was plagued for many years by an ineffectual leadership, political problems and poor financial planning.

As they do so this week's theme has been the supposedly ineffectual and indecisive leadership offered by Barack Obama's White House.

Nevertheless, all this has led to the enduring image of an ineffectual leadership in foreign and military affairs under Zaoutzes.

Poor operating performance and ineffectual leadership continued to bog the company down for many years, even after it was acquired in 1989 by the British entertainment conglomerate Grand Metropolitan and its successor Diageo.

Poor operation and ineffectual leadership continued to bog down the company for many years.

We assess that climate change alone is unlikely to trigger state failure in any state out to 2030, but the impacts will worsen existing problems-such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership, and weak political institutions.