This practice has left black communities trapped in poverty while white politicians pat themselves on the back for taking ineffectual half-measures whose main virtue is their acceptability to white constituents.
Kristol calls the Manchin/Heitkamp bill an "ineffectual but facesaving" measure.
This is also an ineffectual but facesaving measure, but it's one where planes go ZOOM and bombs go BOOM, so it's better.
Of additional concern is the possibility that the virus may become endemic if case numbers were to rise to a point at which vector control measures became ineffectual at controlling virus spread.
The measure was ineffectual, however, and on September 7 the federal government essentially nationalized both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which together owned or guaranteed half of the country's $12 trillion mortgage market.
"After a painful and, for many, inexplicable delay, the administration is finally shifting from an ineffectual series of ad-hoc measures to a comprehensive program that targets key impediments to job creation," commented Mohamed El-Erian, the chief executive of the world's biggest bond manager, Pimco.
U.S. drone strikes have become commonplace in Yemen, where government measures have proven ineffectual against what is considered one of the most virulent Al Qaeda offshoots in the region.
Parliament also passed several laws aimed at combatting corruption, including the Corrupt Practices Act 1854, though these measures proved largely ineffectual.
After a painful and, for many, inexplicable delay, the Administration is finally shifting from an ineffectual series of ad hoc measures to a comprehensive program that targets key impediments to job creation.
The INLD government, however, was ineffectual, in spite of the token measures it initiated to improve the lot of the farmers, better utilize water resources for farming purposes, establish institutions of higher education (notably Chaudhary Devi Lal University; founded 2003), and develop infrastructure.
