Her shyly ineffectual father, from a family of opera singers, was a railroad clerk.
During the Second World War, Morrow's excusing himself from his post in London to go off on bombing missions brought frequent ineffectual protests from Mr. Paley.
The demonstrators want the United Nations to replace the ineffectual peacekeepers from the African Union, and President Bush urged the Security Council to act promptly.
Mr. Hannah serves up extreme animal lovers, an ex-drug dealer and preacher who lives in a junkyard, an ineffectual sheriff from the North whose true interests are amateur theatricals and a woman twice his age.
They're making the point that their victim isn't only handicapped, but is also incapable of handling his or her condition without recourse to ineffectual protection from witless officialdom.
The answers he seemed to like most were Dick Dastardly for David Cameron, the "ineffectual" Fred Jones from Scooby Doo for Nick Clegg and Elmer Fudd for Ed Miliband, "in perennial but fruitless pursuit of the prime ministerial wabbit".
Legislative Term Limits would prevent ineffectual officials from maintaining their positions and encourage others to act with more haste regarding their campaign promises.
Past attempts at cancer immunotherapy by exploiting the activation of effector cells (predominantly macrophages) by diverse natural or synthetic adjuvants were mostly ineffectual, apart from isolated examples such as the treatment of bladder cancer with BCG.
Even when parameters of the immune system are related to tumor characteristics, the association could simply be a result of the tumor as a foreign body eliciting an ineffectual response from the immune system, such that strengthening that response would have no effect.
In this case, blocking tactics aimed at preventing transmission from the reservoir to the target host will be ineffectual (horizontal arrow from point B in Figure 3A), but target control may prove highly effective (vertical arrow from point B in Figure 3A).
