But they are ineffectual if they disperse, and at the mercy of American airpower if they congregate.
And now his unexpected successor, the obscurantist Islamist Mohamed Morsi, has been tossed out, along with his fellow Muslim Brothers, who were allowed to show themselves for what they are — ineffectual bumpkins — and in a scant year blew their shot at power.
Although peaceful deaths do occur in hospices and some nursing homes, and many hospitals try to honor advance directives, over all, they are "ineffectual in shaping care," said Dr. Joanne Lynn, director of Georgetown University's Center to Improve Care of the Dying and co-director of a project known as the Support study, the largest study ever conducted of dying patients in American hospitals.
In fact, we reward them, we reelect them, in spite of their being as conventional as they are ineffectual.
The content or uses of such media are as diverse as they are ineffectual in shaping the form of human association.
They are ineffectual at household tasks.
These drugs are widely distributed to treat the symptoms of PTSD, despite allegations that they're ineffectual in treatment of the condition.
Although the ILO's efforts to establish international conventions to promote a "rights-based" agenda for labor can be helpful, they are ineffectual in the face of high unemployment.
Government efforts to expel them were ineffectual, and a major social problem loomed.
These same groups were ineffectual when they dominated the Governing Council, the first post-Saddam Iraqi assembly.Rough democracy for a rough countryNineteen of the 100 seats in the new parliament have been reserved for former Governing Council members.
