Sentence examples for ineffectual use from inspiring English sources

Indeed, had Bill Clinton been early in his second term in September , 2001 facing a crisis that called on his gift for empathy and international leadership, while forcing him beyond his often ineffectual use of power — well, it doesn't bear thinking of.

Instead, I am sitting here like an ineffectual lemon, using every tactic known to man and childcare guru to persuade my normally confident son Daniel to go play willingly.

Instead, he threatened to render the decision on gay marriage ineffectual by using his presidential powers to appoint only conservative justices to the bench who would supposedly interpret the ruling differently.

Discusses how the Bureau has been ineffectual despite the use of illegal methods.

Despite the campaign driving "a good deal of traffic" to his website, the operator, who gave his name as Daniel, was critical of the Stoner Sloth idea and told Guardian Australia that it was an "outdated dramatisation" that used ineffectual scare tactics.

In contrast, text-based media use appears ineffectual.

Until educational reformers are willing to expand their dialogue to include attacking inequality head-on, we will continue to use narrow and ineffectual strategies that produce frustration and failure.

Mr. Berry explained that some credit repair companies use practices that are ineffectual and even illegal.

Mr Zenawi has already splintered the ineffectual opposition parties with the liberal use of torture and imprisonment.

He had a lifelong hatred of heroin, and contempt for ineffectual governmental attempts to curb its use.

And I don't begrudge them that, not a bit, because in these hard economic times, immensely profitable ineffectual products such as theirs can use all the help they don't need.