Sentence examples for less effectual from inspiring English sources

Our generation has become more productive but less effectual in the visual language that we use.

Battier has routinely ­guarded the league's most dangerous offensive players — LeBron James, Chris Paul, Paul Pierce — and has usually managed to render them, if not entirely ineffectual, then a lot less effectual than they normally are.

A quarter of a century on, the ghastly war in Syria has left Barack Obama looking weaker and less effectual on the world stage than any of his predecessors since Jimmy Carter.

The ironic upshot, one less effectual shah later, was the Islamic revolution of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1979, in which the clerics the shahs had tried to squeeze out of the picture seized ultimate power for themselves, and have kept it ever since.For an example of how things can go wrong at the letting-in stage, remember Algeria in 1992.

Multi-species grazing modified biomass and fire within stands and biophysical sites, but regimes involving only wildlife or livestock were less effectual.

Competitive telecommunications prospered briefly, but were not to last, as the Old Republic's oversight became less effectual and the formerly competitive telephone carriers reconsolidated into a new Empire, with sights set on conquering the nascent Internet.

Instead, the reduction of the grave treatment complications by fine-tuning risk-adapted therapy, and the development of more effectual, more specific, and less harmful molecular targeted drugs are currently viewed as the most important policies.

The more I think of it the less convinced I am that it is a good, meaning effectual, plan at all".

Modigliani's superb way with line, which establishes not only shapes but weighty volumes, can seem a surrogate for yet more effectual action with a chisel; and the sameness of faces, as he rendered them, is less disheartening in three dimensions than in two.

Rather, by maintaining plague victims in a pestilential atmosphere and restricting the movement of the unaffected, they were positively tyrannical: It follows, no less clearly, that the continuance of persons in an air viciously disposed, must be one of the most effectual means of rendering the healthy sick, and the diseases of the sick, mortal.

Much of the frustration, the analysts say, stems from the lack of any more effectual ally to which Riyadh could turn, as former European colonial powers such as Britain and France have even less influence in the Middle East and Riyadh is unlikely to find much common purpose with Russia or China.