An unexpected consequence of Helsinki was that its seemingly half-hearted and ineffectual safeguards for human rights spawned the "Helsinki Rights" movement.
Collective bargaining has proved ineffectual in protecting the rights of football and basketball players.
Regarding women's rights, the UNHRC has been ineffectual, betraying the many Muslim and minority women and girls who have suffered sexual violence in areas of conflict controlled by Islamists.
Parents seem well-meaning but ineffectual in these stories; they do everything right, but it doesn't necessarily work.
For one thing, given how international and borderless the Internet is, restricting where RTBF is being applied by geography seems like an ineffectual way of addressing a person's right to privacy.
Kinzinger says it won't pass the House, but everyone should be "team America" and "do the right thing" which is some ineffectual, face-saving airstrikes in Syria.
Local control of public schools, including the sacred right to keep them impoverished and ineffectual, is a fundamental tenet of the conservative canon.
The irony is that some on the right seem to be sinking into ineffectual idealism just as the left has shown signs of growing out of it.
"Everyone wants to stop me and ask me how the show got it so right," said Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who plays the quirky, ineffectual second in command on "Veep".
Doers were pitted against thinkers and the narrative of the ineffectual elite gained resonance with a push from far right conservatives who effectively played off of the ironic anti-intellectualism of conservative thinker William F. Buckley Jr.
"Frontline" finds it to be an ineffectual fighting force, with "a notoriously bad record on human rights". Its leaders all seem to be former followers of the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and any legitimacy, or moral purpose, is not apparent.
