Sentence examples for ineffectual action from inspiring English sources

Some evidence suggests that alarmed and repressive reactions strengthen polarization, that moderate reactions strengthen the mediation viewpoint, and that inaction or ineffectual action facilitates efforts toward usurpation of authority.

The brother of Conrad I, duke of Franconia and German king (911 918), Eberhard in 915 supported his brother's ineffectual action against the rebellious duke of Saxony, Henry the Fowler.

The order had the effect of locking the front door to the site — a largely ineffectual action that kept back doors to the site, and several copies of it, available to sophisticated Web users who knew where to look.

A serious case review said "ineffectual action plans" were not acted on and that relatives had been forced to make decisions "without the full information of what was going on at Orchid View".

So why then do well-intentioned schools, councils and green groups - and let's face it, Live Earth was an eight-hour tip-fest - persist in promoting such ineffectual actions?

Selected in 1855 by the state legislature to serve in the United States Senate — in preference to Abraham Lincoln — Trumbull gravitated to the ranks of the Radicals in 1861, badly underestimating the newly elected President Lincoln as an expedient opportunist, and perceiving himself and his allies as a necessary force to goad the supposedly ineffectual president into action.

This may be a result of cell activation, but the question remains as to why the increased numbers of activated T cells in HIV infected individuals fail to clear pathogens and are ineffectual in their actions.

But the C.I.A.'s efforts to thwart Mr. bin Laden's network through covert action were ineffectual, the commission found.

He took a beating for it back then (including from right-leaning Forbes, the self-described "capitalist tool"), and the NY Fed's eventual defense of its own actions was ineffectual.

Others labeled the Philharmonic's action merely as ineffectual given the rise of Jorg Haider and his pugnacious right-wing Freedom Party.

Yet they are saddled with the reputation of their ineffectual predecessors and, despite the action taken against Blatter and Platini, continue to operate under the suspicion that they are not fully independent from the organisation they are probing.