Sentence examples for ineffectual to from inspiring English sources

He was concerned about cancer and fluoridation, but he was too ineffectual to do much about either.

Left on the sidelines of the conflict, Mr Abbas looked ineffectual to many Palestinians: unable to deliver peace through negotiations with Israel, yet unwilling to fight the occupier.

But if good people are considered ineffectual to begin with, or, even worse, a nuisance or irrelevant, then it's virtually impossible to construct a story around their efforts.

The Qataris are emerging as brokers in this conflict — more willing than other Arab nations, who have been largely ineffectual, to acknowledge their involvement in the war alongside America and other Western countries.

But corruption, the disease that has blighted Kenyan politics, crept back in as ministers began siphoning off public funds and awarding contracts to suspect companies, confident that their president was too weak or ineffectual to stop them.

Turkey, along with Arab and Western countries, had pressured the Syrian political opposition, which had been seen as fractious and ineffectual, to realign itself as a broader coalition that included more officials from within Syria, which it did on Sunday after several days of wrangling in Doha, Qatar.

Attracting more attention to race, to ineffectual rhetoric, and to accusations of racism is unfortunate, and candidly, it is insulting to the students of New York City who need us to come together.

In Vulindlela, the use of pamphlets as an outreach strategy was found to be ineffectual due to poor literacy and was replaced by public mobilization talks held in central and public community areas.

Ms. Gillard is an ineffectual political enforcer, unable to instill discipline on her party, Professor Wanna said.

[8] Balaic, like so many others, was firmly convinced — call it a feeling of typographic rectitude — that Comic Sans was "rendering things ineffectual," or, to be fair to his argument, was at least reputed to have that effect.

At five debates held across the district in September and October, Nixon was able to paint the incumbent as ineffectual and to suggest that Voorhis was connected to communist-linked organizations.