Sentence examples for usually ineffectual from inspiring English sources
Mr. Chávez lost last year's referendum because students, business leaders, members of the usually ineffectual opposition and some former supporters were willing to work together.
Even in their limited role, CIOs are usually ineffectual, partly because of rebellious employees and partly because giant industries have been created to circumvent one-size-fits-all computing and networking solutions.
Two years later, he made his first professional appearance in London, in Rain Before Seven at the Arts Theatre, and then featured in a series of West End plays, usually playing ineffectual older characters.
The idea is to let the flooding recede in a natural way rather than artificially try to tightly contain it in what is usually a costly, largely ineffectual struggle.
For the English language specialist David Crystal, the term is usually given to the "loud-mouthed ineffectual upper class twit".
Make-believe movie presidents are usually square-jawed action heroes, stoical Solons or ineffectual eggheads, blander and more generically appealing than their complicated real-life counterparts, who tend to be treated deferentially or ignored entirely unless they are named Richard Nixon.
Battier has routinely guarded the league's most dangerous offensive players — LeBron James, Chris Paul, Paul Pierce — and has usually managed to render them, if not entirely ineffectual, then a lot less effectual than they normally are.
Symptoms are usually only evident after blockage of the bile duct and, at this late stage, chemotherapy and radiotherapy are relatively ineffectual, leaving surgical resection as the only option for treatment.
The parliamentary opposition is ineffectual.
Traffic police are ineffectual.
