Sentence examples for ineffectual ways from inspiring English sources

Sometimes, these feelings burst out in sad, ineffectual ways.

McConnell threatened that if Obama does not return to his weak and ineffectual ways at once, "he will face the prospect of being a two-term President".

"It is an ineffectual way to meet people's needs, and services aren't delivered".

If Messi was busy meeting expectations, so, in their own ineffectual way, were the US.

"Oh?" he says to the police chief, in the equable (and ineffectual) way he will respond to later accusations of other crimes.

It didn't catch on, and the # key became famous as an ineffectual way of interacting with the robots who work at your bank.

Imprisonment is an expensive and ineffectual way of dealing with these people and so not in the interest of either the individuals or the public.

Yet Japanese politics stumbles on, in its usual corrupt, complacent and ineffectual way.This week an opinion poll in the Mainichi newspaper found that the approval rating for the government led by Mr Mori had fallen to a mere 14%.

This tactic has been successful in preventing the Federal Labour Relations Authority from doing anything; it has also temporarily denied agencies, from the Federal Housing Finance Agency to the CIA, of confirmed heads, without whom they may drift along in an ineffectual way that pleases some small-government types.

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.

He is frequently described by some within the department as being out of touch with its nuts-and-bolts workings, and has appeared to some to be ineffectual in ways that his counterpart at the Police Department, Raymond W. Kelly, is not.