Sentence examples for a ineffectual from inspiring English sources

Does he want his great grandchildren to open their history books and read that he was a ineffectual Speaker who couldn't control his caucus and led the country to the edge of the abyss again and again?

The real Peter Sellers was never a disturbed scientist, an ineffectual president or any of the other roles he played.

Leaving an audience in doubt about KC's undaunted relentlessness is an ineffectual compromise, not a dramatic payoff.

"Panama" might be a failed spoof, a misguided parody or just an ineffectual stab at ridiculousness.

At the loss of a second daughter, Mary makes an ineffectual attempt at suicide and is briefly institutionalized.

The play is a culture-clashing drama about an ineffectual, nervous Scottish writer who goes to Syria to sell English-language textbooks.

He also contributed deft and witty cameos as a philosophical cab driver and an ineffectual private eye in Taxi Driver (1976) and Hardcore (1979) respectively.

This proposition doesn't mesh with an ineffectual enforcement policy and a border that, to most voters, looks like Swiss cheese.

So, what turns a good, devoted teacher into an ineffectual instructor?

He was "an ineffectual manager," according to an account by Allan H. Meltzer, the Carnegie Mellon economist.

Mr. Jaafari, considered by many to be an ineffectual leader, won the nomination in February by a single vote in a secret ballot among the Shiites.