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Main Entry:	in·ef·fi·cient [in-i-fish-uhnt] /ˌɪnɪˈfɪʃənt/ Show Spelled
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Many say the government was late and inefficient in delivering aid and in re-establishing order, according to a newspaper poll.

But in both cases they're products of an inefficient and unfair system.

But thanks to rigid labour laws, it is fragmented and inefficient.

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Many say the government was late and inefficient in delivering aid and in re-establishing order, according to a newspaper poll.

But in both cases they're products of an inefficient and unfair system.

But thanks to rigid labour laws, it is fragmented and inefficient.

But this is inefficient and requires large amounts of power.

Drafty buildings, inefficient appliances and mountains of waste will all need to be transformed to control global warming.

The first thing to understand is that our energy system is highly inefficient.

Inefficient combustion results in much of wood's energy being released as waste.

Elephants also prove to be extremely inefficient while running.

But because only one in a million of the collisions actually produce fusion, the device is an inefficient generator of energy.

The state almost everywhere is big, inefficient and broke.

They claimed the turbojet engine would be too heavy and fuel inefficient.

Photovoltaic cells remain woefully inefficient at converting sunlight into electricity.

These tea drinkers start each day with the kettle, but using a gas burner to heat water is slow and inefficient.

Inefficient distribution of food and inequities in income leave many without enough to eat.

As the article notes, doing so would be horribly inefficient.

Spain's two-tier labour system is inefficient as well as unfair.

The rational mind venturing there finds itself puzzled and inefficient in negotiating its environment.

Another man-made obstacle is the dispersed permitting regime which is inefficient in both time and costs.

Stamping out utility is holding on to practices that are inefficient in the short term.

China simply cannot afford the drag that inefficient enterprises impose on the economy.

Consider our system of representative government: it is designed to be complicated and inefficient.

Yet he notes that this had advantages: sweeping away inefficient industries and driving down living costs.

Sometimes your energy use is the result of an inefficient building.

The grid is an inefficient system of energy delivery.

Collectors were the first to come because collectibles is also an inefficient market.

But the method is highly inefficient and would require tens or hundreds of oocytes for each patient.

It would be inefficient not to subsidize colleges and their students.

Iraq's bloody-minded and inefficient bureaucracy is one of several problems oil majors face.

For as tasty as that sweet-and-sour pork may be, eating meat is an incredibly inefficient way to feed oneself.

Sorting trash by hand is an unhealthy inefficient task.

Williams described e-mail as a a relatively difficult and inefficient task for someone on a brain-computer interface.

But the building grew old and the boiler became inefficient and expensive to operate.

Doing so is costly and inefficient for society and the student.

But some of the materials and catalysts have turned out to be unstable and inefficient in the laboratory.

The rest is lost to evaporation or sinks into the ground due to leaks in inefficient systems.

Currently much of the power generated is lost through extremely inefficient long distance transmission.

It works, but it's inefficient because the fan is connected to the engine and turns at the same speed as the turbine.

Today, however, much giving remains impulsive and inefficient.

Yet fuel subsidies are an inefficient way to protect the poor:.

Sooner or later today's hopelessly inefficient rockets.

It exchanges information in a manner that is primitive and inefficient but remarkably different from the others.

Other, smaller fish can be harder to catch, making them an inefficient source of nourishment.

These methods are not only an inefficient way for an athlete to cool down, but they can actually be quite dangerous.

From an evolutionary point of view, loops seem inefficient because of the redundancy inherent in a looped network.

And so far, fuel-cell engines are an inefficient use of electricity.

Its extremely inefficient and would require vast amounts of unsustainable copper.

In case of wireless chargers, proponents claim they are no less inefficient than their plugged-in peers.

Both sectors are notoriously inefficient in their use of capital and are weak in creating shareholder value, he added.

There's a beauty in complexity that is often dismissed as inefficient or inconvenient.

We should not be wasting our precious fossil fuels building these inefficient devices.

Although forceful, the effort has also been piecemeal and inefficient.

To manufacture it, pharmaceutical companies have to rely on an inefficient and expensive fungus.

But states and cities have paid too little attention to the costly and inefficient way.

It underscores an already familiar point: inefficient art can make you feel tired.

Previously, this was known to be technically possible, but the process was hopelessly inefficient.

So that is a pretty inefficient planet killing sun x-ray beam weapon… thing.

Having six limbs instead of four would be too costly and inefficient sacrificing brain power that is needed for intelligence.

Tetris trains your brain to stop using inefficient gray matter, perhaps a key cognitive strategy for learning.

The airline has been criticized frequently for delays and inefficient service.

Governments are unlikely to abandon biofuels merely because they are inefficient and damaging.

The fundamental reason why health care is so expensive and inefficient is it is driven by fear.

Remove articles that make the government inefficient.

Dirty air filters are a common cause of air-conditioner problems and inefficient operation.

Governments can use this cash to reduce other inefficient taxes, thereby cutting the economic costs of carbon abatement.

To put it in perspective: changing out one old inefficient stove is equivalent to taking five old diesel buses off the road.

They are a particularly inefficient and wasteful tax.

Bloomberg should abandon notoriously inefficient work practices that have persisted through good times and bad.

But when you get an inside look, it's easy to see how inefficient big business really is.

As combustion is inefficient as defined by principle of combustion scienceInfernofuel is a nano technology that.

Market timers take advantage of inefficient mutual fund pricing, a practice that harms the performance of the funds.

But copying every file a hundred times is hugely inefficient.

Whether it's the inefficient flooding of farm fields or hosing down our cars every weekend, people find many ways to waste water.

The device replaced inefficient generators and enabled cars to produce steady and reliable electric power.

Spain's inefficient collective bargaining system has also been left largely intact.

There, he closed inefficient factories, concentrating production where returns were best.

So far, a handful of emerging-market firms have defied the conventional wisdom that conglomerates are inherently inefficient.

Self-sufficiency is inefficient and shallow markets are more volatile than deep ones.

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