Sentence examples for seem ineffectual from inspiring English sources

To some, prophetic acts may seem ineffectual, silly, even insane.

"Even his tweets are designed to make others seem ineffectual and weak.

Current measures taken by professional bodies to provide guidance seem ineffectual.

Liberal societies seemed ineffectual; authoritarianism was the coming thing.

He backed aerial spraying of coca and opium-poppy fields, even though it seemed ineffectual.

Mr. Trump said he stopped using Mr. Schwartz in the early 1990's because he seemed ineffectual.

Now Obama seems ineffectual, as Israel pushes ahead on 600 more new homes in East Jerusalem, where the Palestinians want their capital, despite the White House protest in November about 900 other houses that Israel plans to put up there.

Mr Kohl also seemed ineffectual, not least because it was his Bundesbank president, Hans Tietmeyer, who saved him from a worse deal that, by fixing a date for Mr Duisenberg's retirement, would have breached the treaty.

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A solid, subtle, ingenious contributor to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Madison seemed ineffectual after his election to the top magistracy in 1808; Wills attributes his failings to provincialism, naïveté and a preference for the arts of legislation over the drive of leadership.

Our "free press" seems ineffectual, even complicit at times; but it hasn't disappeared entirely.