Sentence examples for he is ineffectual from inspiring English sources

A cluster of somewhat unattractive personal traits – weak, wishy-washy and weird – lead our undecided voters to conclude that, more damagingly, he is "ineffectual".

He added: "He was ineffectual as governor but he is entertaining".

I don't think Connecticut voters are saying he's ineffectual.

In his rewriting of history, his clout in Washington was so slight that he was ineffectual at "influencing the Congress".

"He was shouting and threatening and doing a bit of pushing, but he was ineffectual," Richard says.

On Dec. 10, 1905, he entered Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberal cabinet as president of the Local Government Board, but he was ineffectual as a cabinet officer.

If he did, he was ineffectual in his research, not discovering that the plague outside 22 Golden Lane may be misleading-no-one is certain which of the little houses was rented by Ottla - and not making contact with either of Ottla's surviving daughters, who could have told him that their mother did not divorce their gentile father.

The New York Times wrote of him in 1947, "He was ineffectual in terms of practical results".

The parliamentary opposition is ineffectual.

Current diplomacy is ineffectual because it lacks imagination or flair.

Republicans will be tempted to become even more unyielding, to show that Mr Obama is ineffectual.