Sentence examples for be made ineffectual from inspiring English sources

The auguries, however, are that any such legislation would be made ineffectual by operational conceits and caveats on the one hand.

Their demands for Romania to allow indefinite military transit through Northern Dobruja were made ineffectual by the opposition of other European states, and Kogălniceanu was able to obtain the retrocession of Snake Island.

That would be irksome even without being made to feel ineffectual and detested.

But it just shows how long advocacy takes: 18 months in, and only a small amount of progress has been made in tackling the ineffectual government services.

Ineffectual efforts were made to capture the French ships, but it was not until the arrival of the 74-gun HMS Sceptre under Captain Samuel James Ballard that an attack was made in earnest.

Under ether, an ineffectual attempt was made to break up the adhesions and correct the position.

As ridiculous as it was that Don Imus was fired by MSNBC for making an ineffectual and hilariously archaic comment about the Rutgers women's basketball team, at least that comment was made while he was on the air at MSNBC so it was within the network's purview to take action.

They're so invested in being right, so frustrated that this child who is making them look foolish and ineffectual by not delivering on their "Not my kid" pronouncement, so angry that their will is being thwarted by this child.

If nothing else, ISIS is making the Turkish government appear weak and ineffectual.

Both AOL Time Warner and The Walt Disney Co. are making major deals that underscore just how ineffectual efforts at media conglomeration can be.

Such analyses and results are ineffectual in making any deductions about the disease stages in the regions.