Sentence examples for mainly ineffectual from inspiring English sources
He could assume a much higher profile in government than his several, mainly ineffectual, predecessors, although the experience could be uncomfortable for him.
The government's efforts to persuade Indians not to give or accept a dowry – consisting mainly of stodgy sermons – have proved ineffectual.
And, in this movie, the U.N. isn't an ineffectual talking shop with useful, mainly uncontroversial affiliates.
That the nation was ultimately wired for A.C. rather than the comparatively ineffectual D.C. was the result, mainly, of the work of two men: the inventor Nikola Tesla and the engineer and entrepreneur George Westinghouse.
By Gary Milhollin The New Yorker, February 1 , 1993P. 47 THE NEW ARMS RACE about the Iraqi nuclear weapons program, and the ineffectual means of inspecting it, mainly by the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency.
Efforts to control dengue have mainly involved insecticide spraying programs, but this strategy has proven ineffectual [8].
The parliamentary opposition is ineffectual.
Traffic police are ineffectual.
It has proved ineffectual.
Saints can be ineffectual.
