Sentence examples for would be ineffectual from inspiring English sources

It is only your conjecture that direct questioning (of those parents or their savvy kids) would be ineffectual.

The more substantial argument against quantitative easing is that purchases of securities would be ineffectual, given Europe's bank-based financial system.

Mr. Webster was chosen over better candidates precisely because accounting industry lobbyists -- a group that clearly still includes Mr. Pitt -- believed he would be ineffectual.

And he said he was somewhat worried by the recent sharp rise in oil prices, but advised against selling the government's oil reserves to try to bring the price down, saying such a move would be ineffectual.

One of the strongest proponents of immigration control, Migration Watch UK, has previously concluded a points-based system would be ineffectual, and that Australia's tight border control is unrelated to how they assess skilled migrants.

Indeed, the measure was passed on a 2-to-1 vote, with William Massey -- the one commissioner who has been sympathetic to calls for price controls -- voting against it on the grounds that it would be ineffectual.

It's also worth noting that no public poll has explored how the public would respond to the Pentagon view that "military strikes" would likely be ineffectual and that only a ground invasion could definitively end Iran's nuclear program.

You'd be directing your anger at an innocent person, and besides, such a call would probably be ineffectual.

This instruction would often be ineffectual.

The auguries, however, are that any such legislation would be made ineffectual by operational conceits and caveats on the one hand.

No sooner am I out of that frying pan, however, than I land in a fire; for still other readers objected that my preferred means of bringing about the world I desire would be laughably ineffectual.