Sentence examples for it ineffectual from inspiring English sources

Like a key fitting perfectly into a lock, the inhibitors jam up the enzyme, rendering it ineffectual.

DUBLIN — Pope Benedict XVI's weekend apology to sufferers of sexual abuse at the hands of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland met with a deeply skeptical and often angry response from many Catholics here on Sunday, with one prominent victim calling it ineffectual and demanding that the pope forcibly remove the head of the Irish church if he does not resign.

But many fear that Bangladesh has started to slide into the sort of chaos that existed when the Awami League, in opposition days, called a long series of strikes.Squabbles between the government and the BNP have already led to several walk-outs from Parliament, rendering it ineffectual.

Just as it would be difficult to try to build a house with only a hammer, so too is it ineffectual to rely on email as our only means of communication.

But the police were beating people up for at least an hour before I saw the first stone fly, making it appear less an act of terrorism and more an act of improvised (and let's face it, ineffectual) self-defense.

At the same time, a code that is too vague can render it ineffectual and irrelevant.

Some of my Chinese friends call it an ineffectual magic wand (wield it but nothing happens), and on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter — over which the state holds less control than it would like — many mock it as Communist Party propaganda nonsense.

In other words, James is telling us that although temporal power does originate in man's natural inclinations, it is ineffectual qua power unless it is informed by the spiritual.

The reason for this particular gathering was because the State Senate has crafted its own watered down version of the Assembly's bill that so weakens it as to make it virtually ineffectual.

That no participant spontaneously mentioned information/advice as an intervention received suggests that they didn't receive any information, but if information was given people do not perceive it to be an intervention per se or it was ineffectual and people do not value its usefulness [ 16].

After King's death, there was a Poor People's Campaign, but without its most eloquent prophet it was ineffectual.