Raymond B. Harding, the leader of the Liberal Party, said there was something unseemly -- and probably ineffectual -- about Democrats trying to clear the field for Mr. McCall.
Then the Senate, if it likes, can go back to its ineffectual arguing about who is to blame for what.
The N.F.L. could also try educating coaches, who now believe that a headless hit is an ineffectual one, about the perils of head-first tackling, in hopes that over time safer techniques would become the norm.
Last fall, in a statement to Politico, Ms. Streisand, who contributed $2,500 in September, described Ms. Warren as the "one new, consistent and strong voice that has broken through the oftentimes murky and ineffectual cacophony about the economic problems facing our nation".
The converse award should go to the Democratic Party, for their ineffectual campaign about nothing.
When I talk to Bahmanzadeh, it's a struggle to keep his focus unanswered questions about ineffectual lawyers or evidence barge into his head, derailing his train of thought.
When I talk to Manoucehr it's a struggle to keep his focus – unanswered questions about ineffectual lawyers or evidence barge into his head, derailing his train of thought.
Each family recounted a convoluted story about ineffectual health care seeking at the time of birth, despite traditional and formal midwives being close to hand.
He was concerned about cancer and fluoridation, but he was too ineffectual to do much about either.
Mr. Horovitz is more novel and barbed in "On the Second Battlefield," a chapter about how the international news media treat suicide bombings and about how ineffectual -- "even murderously incompetent" -- Israeli spokesmen can be on television.
