Sentence examples for remained ineffectual from inspiring English sources

The proscription was rigorously enforced, but remained ineffectual.

Moreover, in a subset of enabler resistant cell lines only putative activator BH3 peptides induced cytochrome c release, whereas combinations of enablers that similarly neutralize all pro-survival members remained ineffectual (data not shown).

"The decisions and measures thus far adopted remain ineffectual.

Bentham held, with Hobbes, that unless the language of the law and the methods used to interpret it were accessible and useful to the ordinary citizens to whom it applied, law would remain ineffectual as a guide to their behaviour.

The Transitional Federal Government has been propped up by millions of dollars of Western aid, including American military aid, but its leaders remain ineffectual, divided and by many accounts corrupt.

But both sides really wish the people would just go away — and because they won't, our foreign policy is doomed to remain ineffectual.

Thus, Bolzano's philosophy has not remained completely ineffectual: We know that Twardowski was well familiar with Bolzano (Twardowski 1894), and we know that Łukasiewicz was well acquainted with Bolzano's method of idea-variation, as a section in his book on Logical Foundations of Probability Theory (Łukasiewicz 1913, § 24) shows.

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Some activists speculated that their show of strength would serve as a jolt to the secular forces who helped to start the revolution but who remain divided, largely ineffectual and woefully unprepared for coming elections.

An interim president, Dioncounda Traore, is trying to close a rift in the armed forces between plotters and those who remained loyal to the elected if ineffectual former government.

The rearmost ship, Néréide, was unable to manoeuvre successfully in the light winds and remained beyond the effective range of Astraea and Racehorse, despite an ineffectual cannonade in her direction.