Sentence examples for rather ineffectual from inspiring English sources

Wyeomyia smithii is a small and rather ineffectual bug.

But it is bilateral deals that will build the dream, not communiqués from an SCO summit.Viewed like this, not as a regional security bloc but as a rather ineffectual effort at combating cross-border terrorism and boosting other links, the SCO seem less threatening.

None of the parties likely to have a say in government will commit to that, leaving the prospect, at present, of a small and rather ineffectual organisation.Amid all this consensus, for good or ill, the biggest difference between the parties lies not in the area of policy, but in the extent of their internal unity on green matters.

By Peter Packer The New Yorker, April 21 , 1945P. 67 Toward the end of 1917, when I was a boy of ten, people were warned of approaching enemy planes by bicycleriding members of the London police force, who pedalled furiously through the streets, tinkling their rather ineffectual bicycle bells.

There's also a proposal for an "honest opinion" defence to replace the current, rather ineffectual defence of "fair comment".

As a result, the Arab attacks against the Byzantine Empire in the 740s were rather ineffectual and soon ceased completely.

If matters were that simple, however, torture would be so rare that covenants abolishing it would be superfluous rather than ineffectual.

The fear of a congressional investigation seems to hang over every political show, so American producers respond by making their characters ineffectual rather than incompetent, unwitting dupes rather than cynical and malicious manipulators. .

The vote is a rather blunt and ineffectual instrument for expressing dissatisfaction, and nonvoting is more likely to be symptomatic of alienation from the political system than of satisfaction with it.

He will argue that the EC's Nice Declaration on sport should be given legal force rather than its current ineffectual advisory status.

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.