Sentence examples for made ineffectual from inspiring English sources

Through the windows of their kitchen, where I made ineffectual gestures of helping with refreshments, I could see the back of my old house.

The auguries, however, are that any such legislation would be made ineffectual by operational conceits and caveats on the one hand.

Their demands for Romania to allow indefinite military transit through Northern Dobruja were made ineffectual by the opposition of other European states, and Kogălniceanu was able to obtain the retrocession of Snake Island.

If politics is a conversation, it's a useful, even an indispensable, conversation, because ritualizing the argument gives it form, makes it part of a public idiom... Politics is much more often a conversation among people of remarkably similar temperament who make ineffectual, sympathetic noises while waiting until the last possible moment to make unavoidable changes.

But Borg did not retire officially until 1983 and eventually made an ineffectual comeback.

At the loss of a second daughter, Mary makes an ineffectual attempt at suicide and is briefly institutionalized.

However, if courts read the Constitution in such a way that it enables them to make Congress ineffectual, and instead to promote 50 state regulatory regimes in an era of rapidly mounting global challenges, the risks should escape no one.

Philosophy believed in the inevitability of causes and effects, which was an insult to the power of God, who could easily intervene to make causes ineffectual and alter effects if He so chose.

Mr. Pletnev, who plays at the Metropolitan Museum on Thursday, tells me this in a confiding tone, heavily Russian but half whispered, with long pauses during which he thinks, draws deeply on a cigarette (he chain-smokes) and insists on pouring me another vodka, which I make an ineffectual effort to decline.

The objections on this account are that the inevitable remoteness of a global political authority would dilute the laws, making them ineffectual and meaningless.

She criticised the film, however, for the "strong impression" it makes that ineffectual mothers are part of the underlying problem and for several differences between Leigh's murder and the film that she considered to be disrespectful to Leigh's memory, in particular the film's "Hollywood ending".