Sentence examples for as being ineffectual from inspiring English sources

But the commission has been criticized by many people as being ineffectual.

Her own signature policy proposal is a family leave plan that was derided as being ineffectual and likely to be ignored by the rest of the Republican Party.

Perhaps he realised that shouting 'Come on, mate' when you are up against someone with Federer's gifts is as absurd as it is ineffectual.

In fact, we reward them, we reelect them, in spite of their being as conventional as they are ineffectual.

The content or uses of such media are as diverse as they are ineffectual in shaping the form of human association.

Her Web site lacks an online store, and the T-shirts and stickers scrounged up by her supporters are so conventional as to be ineffectual.

That has provoked criticism that his management style leans too far in the other direction — so detached as to be ineffectual.

Lauren K. Saunders, a lawyer at the National Consumer Law Center, said advocates feared that in the effort to reach a compromise, the agency's power would be so watered down as to be ineffectual.

Although Kennedy was superb as the symbol of a vigorous nation Americans were entranced by the image of his presidency as Camelot he was ineffectual in getting legislation enacted.

Amma's fund-raising success, especially within India, also hinges on the fact that people "trust her more than the government," which is so mired in red tape as to be ineffectual, says John Kattakayam, a sociology professor at the University of Kerala, who studies the role of women in Indian society.

The simple technique of labelling the other side as wrong is ineffectual.