Sentence examples for ineffectual efforts from inspiring English sources

But American Jewry is haunted by the Holocaust, especially by its own ineffectual efforts then to rescue European Jews.

After 12 years in charge and two ineffectual efforts to revamp the company, the Avon board should hold her to the statement and give someone else a chance.

Few people, either integrationist or unreconstructed segregationist, held grudges against Mr. Davis on that day in 1999 for his ineffectual efforts to preserve segregation in Louisiana.

"After several ineffectual efforts, he at last blew the potato against the opposite wall with sufficient force to make it rebound, and he then, without difficulty secured it," he wrote in his 1834 book Gleanings in Natural History.

This problem is obvious to anyone who cares to look – and it has become sufficiently embarrassing for a number of publications to make sporadic but ultimately ineffectual efforts to redress it.

When war was declared, he made well-meaning but largely ineffectual efforts to play his part, such as taking a team of bloodhounds to Belgium to search out wounded men.

But it is bilateral deals that will build the dream, not communiqués from an SCO summit.Viewed like this, not as a regional security bloc but as a rather ineffectual effort at combating cross-border terrorism and boosting other links, the SCO seem less threatening.

But this largely ineffectual effort by China to involve itself in Central Asian security will do little to counterbalance America's growing influence there.Later this month, an American assistant secretary of defence, Peter Rodman, will visit Beijing for talks on ways to revitalise military-to-military contacts.

"If they are serious about stopping the problem, it has to be done in a way that makes clear to people in the poorest countries that [coming] will be an ineffectual effort: they will be spending money for nothing," said Dan Cadman of the Center for Immigration Studies, a non-profit research body.

Mr. Pletnev, who plays at the Metropolitan Museum on Thursday, tells me this in a confiding tone, heavily Russian but half whispered, with long pauses during which he thinks, draws deeply on a cigarette (he chain-smokes) and insists on pouring me another vodka, which I make an ineffectual effort to decline.

Although Allemand led a minor expedition from Brest to Toulon in 1808, and the Brest fleet under Willaumez made a determined if ineffectual effort to break into the Atlantic in early 1809 which ended at the Battle of Basque Roads, there were no other large scale naval campaigns fought in the Atlantic Ocean during the Napoleonic Wars.