limited effectiveness

collocation in English

meaningsoflimitedandeffectiveness

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limited
adjective
uk
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.tɪd/us
/ˈlɪm.ɪ.t̬ɪd/
small in amount ...
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effectiveness
noun[U]
uk
/ɪˈfek.tɪv.nəs/us
/əˈfek.tɪv.nəs/
the degree to which something ...
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(Definition oflimitedandeffectivenessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Explaining thelimitedeffectivenessof legalistic remedies for trust/distrust.
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The results show thelimitedeffectivenessof investments in carbon-abating technologies beyond a certain level.
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Disruption can be of onlylimitedeffectivenessagainst specific operations.
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In addition to this, experts in the field who contributed to the project expressed the view that methods currently available had alimitedeffectivenessand validity.
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Similarly, there may be reluctance to increase use of a technology where patients and clinicians have become accustomed to restrictions based on earlier assumptions oflimitedeffectiveness.
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With this in mind, we can assume that the results of a trial indicating that mebeverine haslimitedeffectiveness would not change physicians' current prescribing practice.
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As well as being an instrument oflimitedeffectiveness, higher interest rates are counter-productive.
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Because for centuries catching methods were oflimitedeffectiveness, the idea arose that stocks were inexhaustible.
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Exclusion orders have been a useful addition, but they are of onlylimitedeffectivenessin enforcing someone's exclusion.
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Hemodialysis or peritoneal dialysis is of onlylimitedeffectiveness.
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Measures which at the time are regarded to be oflimitedeffectivenessoften prove to be successful after they have come to an end.
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Direct control methods include trapping, fencing, and poisoning; trapping and fencing are oflimitedeffectiveness.
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Skywave jamming covered a large area but for the reasons described was oflimitedeffectiveness.
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Vehicle camouflage techniques begin with paint, which offers at best onlylimitedeffectiveness.
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Vaccines are also developed, but they havelimitedeffectivenessin stemming outbreaks in wild waterbird populations.
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Self-control training programs have been shown to havelimitedeffectiveness.
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It was in this type of terrain that aerial attacks were used withlimitedeffectiveness.
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They concluded that generating may havelimitedeffectivenesswhen applied to new or unfamiliar material.
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There is no scientifically established treatment, and rest, a recommended recovery technique, haslimitedeffectiveness.
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For example, an ability to strike mobile second echelon targets would involve very advanced and costly surveillance and target acquisition systems which could be oflimitedeffectiveness.
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He felt the player's vehicles to be oflimitedeffectivenessas is the ability to split the squad.
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These infections tend to resistant treatment, however certain agents may have somelimitedeffectiveness, including: triamcinolone acetonide, neomycin, thiostrepton, nystatin.
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Chlorine is relatively inexpensive and easy to use, but may havelimitedeffectivenessand may require repeated treatments.
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Other static sound methods withlimitedeffectivenessthat birds may adapt quickly to include ultrasonic devices designed for enclosed or semi-enclosed areas.
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Transfusing platelets is the only known treatment and may havelimitedeffectivenessas the drug may also bind to the new platelets.
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