An ineffectual one-off windfall tax on bankers' bonuses is all very well and good, but the small print of the pre-budget report shifts most of the fiscal burden on to the rest of society.
So why look at the numbers at all? Because, as Legistorm puts it, "Offices with the most staff turnover might also include some of the worst bosses". A bad boss can foster an ineffectual office — one that doesn't truly serve the member's constituents or accomplish legislative goals on behalf of voters.
Instead, they identified five educational policies — frequent teacher feedback, data-driven instruction, high-dosage tutoring, increased instructional time, and a relentless focus on academic achievement — that account for almost half the variation between good charter schools and ineffectual ones.
It is not merely demonstrative, showing by example what styles of protest are tolerated (ineffectual ones, largely), but practical in the sense that it drastically foreshortens democratic possibilities.
As history so painfully testifies, this type of legislation proved ineffectual on the one occasion when there was a real argument for it.
Flaubert was writing Salammbô, electric light remained hypothetical" should appear more than once in Baricco's "Silk": an ineffectual calculated effect if ever there was one.
This is also an ineffectual but facesaving measure, but it's one where planes go ZOOM and bombs go BOOM, so it's better.
But if he does, one can imagine that the right candidate could indeed beat him, especially if Trump continues as an ineffectual president and/or presides over the loss of one or both houses of Congress.
From the secure height of the witness box, though, she seemed to be shrinking — an ineffectual old woman, laboring under false beliefs, growing smaller as these beliefs were exposed one by one.
