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Example sentences for: ineffectual

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The President explained to us that he had been concerned lest an ineffectual air strike just serve to give Bin Ladin a propaganda advantage.
Its founders see eBay as a utopian online community, but angry users are calling it "an ineffectual police state, doling out random discipline without due process."
Even though this earthquake seems to have been less lethal than the August one, the country is experiencing a horrible bout of déjà vu, with reports of victims trapped under small mountains of rubble and widespread frustration at the state's ineffectual relief efforts.
This may or may not be an ineffectual gesture on Human Rights Watch's part; what's significant is that the news coverage of the China deal presented the human-rights issue as so negligible that such questions didn't even need to be answered.
The article depicts Kann as an ineffectual pushover and his wife, Karen House, a reporter-turned-Dow Jones exec.