Sentence examples for be ineffectual from inspiring English sources

Saints can be ineffectual.

Bremer, in almost every major aspect, proved to be ineffectual.

The culturally sophisticated Idris turns out to be ineffectual.

Brian can be ineffectual, and he knows it.

Hirschman was aware that exit could be ineffectual, even counterproductive.

But hard power can be ineffectual by itself.

He forcibly converted them, yet these conversions proved to be ineffectual.

Martine Aubry, the party's first secretary, is said to be ineffectual, barely invested and brusque.

Some people think Sudan may have signed the deal precisely because it knows it will be ineffectual.

It is only your conjecture that direct questioning (of those parents or their savvy kids) would be ineffectual.

You'd be directing your anger at an innocent person, and besides, such a call would probably be ineffectual.