Sentence examples for if ineffectual from inspiring English sources

To avoid the hint of inducing a sort of benevolent (even if ineffectual) bribe, you would do better to separate your personal and professional projects.

On one hand, first lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign, which targets the burgeoning phenomenon of childhood obesity in the US, is commendable, if ineffectual.

"If there's one thing I know it's when a man wants me," she told Stamper after some steamy if ineffectual pawing in front of her air conditioner.

An interim president, Dioncounda Traore, is trying to close a rift in the armed forces between plotters and those who remained loyal to the elected if ineffectual former government.

Many have long argued that Asia's institutional architecture falls short, with a mess of competing structures that include the big if ineffectual APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation, a talk-shop on trade), ASEAN, ASEAN+3 (ie, plus Japan, China and South Korea) and the newish and still wobbly East Asia Summit (EAS, made up of ASEAN+3, India, Australia and New Zealand).

Targeting the NYSE, if ineffectual and symbolic, also targets the equities that most adult Americans (as opposed to most OWSers) have in their retirement plans.

Congressional relations have Republicans cowering and Democrats united, if somewhat ineffectual.

But they are ineffectual if they disperse, and at the mercy of American airpower if they congregate.

SOME figures in history are so clearly defined that reinvention is ineffectual, if not impossible.

If that proves ineffectual, those with legal standing to represent the garden can sue the parents.

A small tremor the other day sent me scuttling out of the house with a pillow clutched to my head an entirely ineffectual, if comforting, precaution.