Sentence examples for ineffectual attacks from inspiring English sources

Quintana struggled horribly, never looking competitive and following his ineffectual attacks on Mont Ventoux the Colombian looks worn out.

While Trump's first EPA Administrator, Scott Pruitt, specialized in visible, symbolic and ineffectual attacks on environmental regulation, his new guy, acting administrator Andrew Wheeler, seems to be specializing in quiet, sophisticated, and far more effective attacks on EPA's organizational capacity to develop or enforce environmental rules.

There was then an ineffectual attack by Lars Ytting Bak (Lotto Belisol), who went in search of a win on home soil, but he was undone by a combination of a headwind and a watchful peloton determined to set up a sprint finish.

The besiegers began an ineffectual attack on the fort around midnight which lasted until daybreak, at which point they delivered a final surrender demand.

Following the repeated, ineffectual bombing attacks and the failed Chariot attack in October 1942, the British turned to the newly designed X Craft midget submarines.

Israel had never been satisfied with the conduct of that truce: no suicide bombings was a relief, but continuing (albeit much fewer and ineffectual) rocket attacks and above all continued weapons smuggling were intolerable.

ATLANTA — Seeded at the bottom of their conference, with an ineffectual rushing attack and a defense crippled by three starters on injured reserve, the Green Bay Packers glided within a whiff of the Super Bowl on Saturday by displaying their mastery of a simple childhood activity: pitch and catch.

A number of Bailey's colleagues who might have been inclined to explicitly defend him suggested to me in conversation that they feared being both ineffectual and attacked; certainly his colleague Joan Linsenmeier found herself set upon by both Conway and James as a consequence of her public positive association with Bailey (see, e.g., James, 2003c).

I hope our "experts" acknowledge that computer protection is a multi-billion dollar industry and the supplied "security" is ineffectual against most attacks since they generally happen because people invite the thieves in.

If linked to the Haqqani network, the bombing may signal a return to action, but one that is ineffectual compared with past attacks, which have killed dozens.

But the rebels dismissed the attacks as ineffectual, and Colonel Qaddafi faced a growing international campaign to force him from power, as the Obama administration announced it had seized $30 billion in Libyan assets and the European Union adopted an arms embargo and other sanctions.