But lacking investigative powers, forensic expertise or means of enforcement, the beit din are wholly ineffectual in trying molesters.
Everything about it was a dismal reflection of the campaign so far, which has essentially been the political equivalent of watching ineffectual parents trying to meet the berserk demands of a truckload of tyrannical infants at a birthday party.
Raymond B. Harding, the leader of the Liberal Party, said there was something unseemly -- and probably ineffectual -- about Democrats trying to clear the field for Mr. McCall.
Republicans and anti-tax groups attacked Mr. Carson as an ineffectual liberal, and he tried hard to distance himself from Senator Kerry, who lost badly here.
Shaun Maloney (Midfielder) 6. Largely ineffectual but never stopped trying to create or working back against England's marauding full-backs.
The mayor had repeatedly derided the L.A. Unified School District as ineffectual when he unsuccessfully tried to take over the whole system nearly six years ago.
Another volume, The Challenge for Africa (2009), criticized Africa's leadership as ineffectual and urged Africans to try to solve their problems without Western assistance.
When he tries, in typically ineffectual fashion, to design a Web site that will bring the store hyper-targeted local advertising, he looks for the customer who stays up late, "enjoys Wes Anderson movies" and is not allergic to dust.
Admirable but ineffectual efforts by a writer trying to broaden his canvas, they read like creative-writing-school exercises in character and point of view: "During the Jurassic" is told from the perspective of a suburban iguanodon; "Under the Microscope" from that of a piece of pond scum.
Ariel's ineffectual male duenna Sebastian, a crab, tried walking sideways for a while, but that didn't fly.
Mr. Serra, an experienced politician and a popular former governor, has run an ineffectual campaign in which he has tried to show he is a better continuation candidate than Ms. Rousseff, who had never before run for political office, analysts said.
