The transitional federal government, which had been considered ineffectual by those both at home and abroad, is in.
But if good people are considered ineffectual to begin with, or, even worse, a nuisance or irrelevant, then it's virtually impossible to construct a story around their efforts.
They have promoted as a leader Ahmad Chalabi, a secular Shiite from a wealthy family that had been close to the old monarchy, even though some Middle East specialists in the State Department distrust him and consider him ineffectual.
His mother, Adele, whose chief characteristic is a wilful, childish ability to ignore any realities that do not suit her, depends on Duncan but considers him ineffectual and not the man his father was.
As the primarily finding, this study revealed that unit-specific calibration factors shown to reduce inter-instrumental variability considerably in the experimental setup in the laboratory should be considered as rather ineffectual when applied to field data in children and adolescents.
In conclusion, our results indicate that unit-specific calibration factors, estimated on the basis of acceleration responses in a mechanical setup producing standardized sinusoidal movements, should be considered as rather ineffectual when applied to data collected during free living conditions in children/adolescents.
Under Mr Mitchell's predecessor, Patrick McLoughlin, the Tory chief whip since 2005, the whips had been considered too friendly and ineffectual.
QUESTION FROM KEN: Abe Fortas would have to be considered among the most ineffectual justices in the history of the high court.
But some of it comes from programs that many conservatives consider bloated or ineffectual, especially the new farm bill.
Plebiscites, or popular votes on issues of national importance, are historically rare and arguably ineffectual, considering they are non-binding, and don't change the nation's constitution.
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.
