The small number of failures of axles in service, coupled with the serious consequences of derailment at high speed, imposes the need for very expensive, but ineffectual, inspections of axles for cracks.
Their government was ineffectual and very violent.
Though Sondheim wrote a magnificent score, the casting of very young players proved ineffectual.
The crusades were merely "a long-delayed, very limited, and finally ineffectual response" to Islam's conquests.This is all fine so far as it goes.
Now aged 84, he is about to publish a memoir of life "as a writer who, when I was very young, spent a few ineffectual but extremely formative years in British intelligence".
I can write without compromising integrity that throughout the course of my time with her, she was innocuous, malevolent, impactful, ineffectual, good, bad, black, white, and often, very, very grey.
The Obama Administration has tried to stay out of the war, but it has provided some very limited (critics say half-hearted and ineffectual) help to Syrian groups that are opposed to both Assad and ISIS.
Influence on the learning of English may be as ineffectual as in Namibia, in this very different context.
Koizumi's fiscal restraint has left the responsibility of boosting domestic growth squarely on the shoulders of the BOJ, but its efforts continue to be ineffectual, leaving the economy in a very precarious position.
