Use "ineffectual" in a sentence

1. that its negative force is ineffectual or absent

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2. Spelman in a sigh of both relief that it wasn't more serious, and of irritation that the house staff had been ineffectual

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3. Justice raised an eyebrow for a second and smirked as the ineffectual blasts struck him

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4. And, in both cases, the law seems to have been equally ineffectual, and

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5. religious houses, after some other ineffectual attempts for their relief, it was enacted, by the

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6. The restrictions, however, with which this liberty was granted, joined to the high price of sugar in Great Britain, have rendered it in a great measure ineffectual

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7. 2: ‘So Jerand and his gang are pretty much ineffectual at this stage?’

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8. I also believe that legalization sends a clear message to (potential) law-breakers that whenever law enforcement is perceived as ineffectual, its legalization, whatever the social consequences, is right around the corner

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9. Some consider it crude, ineffectual, a poor choice of style

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10. The Continental Congress had fallen into bickering, and was ineffectual for national defense

11. ineffectual and for the most times, art and part of the animal abuses

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12. denominations ineffectual for the kingdom of God, but

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13. Emptying my untouched beer into a massive glass ashtray with Australia House emblazoned on the underside in gold, I snuck downstairs where a darkly handsome Spaniard was using his boot in an ineffectual attempt to wake another young man snoring on the doorstep

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14. A small group of kids, supposedly on an ecological survey of the waste area beside the fence, had gathered to observe, ignoring the ineffectual bleating and arm waving of Miss Koutt who was desperately trying to herd her charges to a safe distance

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15. He had been responsible for promoting Brian Bell to his desk job, and away from the front line where he was thought to be ineffectual

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16. His mother seemed ineffectual but not unkind

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17. “No problem, first a quick description of the Wilson strong box, it weighs approximately a hundred and ten kilo’s plus contents so it needs two men to carry it, the reason it needs two men is not only the weight factor, the slightest jar will activate the combination alarm, it also has a global positional alarm, move it away from it’s setting by as little as fifty centimetres and the contents are rendered unusable by a printers dye spray, the combination lock on the lid is a work of art, it allows for no tolerance whatsoever, one wrong number and you‘ll be neck deep in trigger happy cops before you can turn around, as for your observation that it has never been done before, when I open this one it will be the second time that it has been done, Wilson Brothers do not like to advertise the fact that their box is less than burglar proof, I estimate that I can render the alarm systems ineffectual in two and a half to three hours, we can then remove it to another location to open at our leisure, once the alarms are deactivated its only a matter of cutting it open, this should take approximately ten hours, then we help ourselves to the contents

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18. that other countries would see them as weak, and ineffectual – unable to protect even their own

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19. If he wanted to remain unnoticed, he could soften the expression and appear slow-witted, kindly and ineffectual, totally unimportant, a grey man, the sort of unnoticed body that makes up a crowd

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20. It had to be politically devastating, portraying the government and security organizations as ineffectual, powerless and incompetent to the mourning public

21. In hindsight, it may be easy to dismiss the behaviour of the First Sea Lord as ineffectual and puzzling

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22. they’ve been told not to: a final bit of ineffectual defiance

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23. I took my face-wipe, and gave the table-top an ineffectual dab

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24. leapt to his feet, puffing and panting with ineffectual indignation, and –with all the dignity he

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25. spell after ineffectual spell, but all to no effect

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26. Of course such a safeguard as this might often be ineffectual

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27. Seneca grunted as he reached down and unsteadily picked up the rope that still lay beside his feet and gave it an ineffectual tug

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28. The two then began to circle each other, taking a moment to test each other's skill with ineffectual swipes that landed blade against blade

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29. The creature turned and instead of a face Ceri saw only an endless abyss, and in that darkness saw a reflection of herself, as others saw her, puny, ineffectual with powers that were of no use to anyone, erratic, awkward, useless

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30. Chew me out, tell me what an incompetent, ineffectual, over-paid bastard I am, but don’t feel sorry for me

31. I never knew about Coleridge's opium, or that to Carlyle he appeared as a helpless Psyche over spun with Church of England cobwebs, as a weak, diffusive, weltering, ineffectual man

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32. How gladly would I write them? How gladly would I see you in untroubled waters, forging straight ahead toward a full and fruitful life? But I am a foolish, ineffectual woman, and write you waspish letters when I might, if I had more insight, have found out what those words are that would set you tingling with the joy of life

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33. So while the arsenal of the Leaf Children looked impressive at first glance a longer more critical examination revealed it to be plentiful but generally ineffectual

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34. The government was constantly labelled a lame duck and the Legislative Council was often seen to be ineffectual and internally divided

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35. “Girl, please step out from behind that flimsy screen panel, it is rather ineffectual against Devata eyes

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36. Emasculated means to be feeble, ineffectual and helpless

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37. But their small, weak efforts are very ineffectual compared to the seven billion human souls infested with sick undead human filth raping and corrupting them at every chance, every second, sleeping and waking… on subconscious levels so faint, and untraceable and unnoticeable; that these brutalized masses of living humans are not even aware that such a thing as demon-possession actually exists, and that human spirits actually survive after the physical body dies

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38. Until they succeed in weakening them enough to make their efforts ineffectual

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39. Do you think 70 years of subconscious subliminal messages repeated endlessly ad nauseum, wishing you to become a senile, pliant mindless baby… by senile, weak, pliant, evil, cunning, undead filth: does not have an affect on you while you are alive? Do you think 70 years of your subconscious aura being violated and destroyed and ripped to shreds all your life, does not result in you developing a weak ineffectual aura? So when you die and meet them in their realm, you are no threat to them? Why do you think the older people get the more senile they become? Why do you think the older they get, the less they sleep? Because they stop dreaming

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40. All his fucking life he had blustered and paraded around in his fucking military uniforms, and his military pomp and splendor: but when the crunch came, he suddenly became a timid little ineffectual mouse, and was brushed aside by his generals

41. The Royal govt of the Tsar was so incompetent, so weak, so ineffectual, it was a benign entity, similar to the weak foppish French Royalty just before the French Revolution

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42. On the other side were their official speeches and government policies: where they were only ineffectual figure heads who were largely ignored in the actual running and policy decisions of each European major power

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43. You are this ineffectual force

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44. preparations which provide only smal and ineffectual quantities of the vitamins, and have

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45. This does not mean that you should "fall" for the widely advertised but ineffectual and even

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46. She still screamed and sobbed lustily, kicked her two brothers for offering to touch her, and all their united soothings were ineffectual till Lady Middleton luckily remembering that in a scene of similar distress last week, some apricot marmalade had been successfully applied for a bruised temple, the same remedy was eagerly proposed for this unfortunate scratch, and a slight intermission of screams in the young lady on hearing it, gave them reason to hope that it would not be rejected

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47. The latter would be ineffectual

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48. It was six o'clock in the morning, the dawn was just breaking, and its feeble ray came into the dungeon, and paled the ineffectual light of the lamp

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49. The warrior in the oak had maintained a quick, though ineffectual fire, from the moment of his discovery

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50. The sight of so many dark bodies, glancing before their eyes at the same instant, drew a hasty and consequently an ineffectual fire from the Hurons

51. The beautiful ineffectual dreamer who comes to grief against hard facts

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52. To make himself the one trusted friend, to whom should be confided all the fear, the remorse, the agony, the ineffectual repentance, the backward rush of sinful thoughts, expelled in vain! All that guilty sorrow, hidden from the world, whose great heart would have pitied and forgiven, to be revealed to him, the Pitiless, to him, the Unforgiving! All that dark treasure to be lavished on the very man, to whom nothing else could so adequately pay the debt of vengeance!

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53. When weak, the medicine was ineffectual; when strong, dangerous

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54. Truth is truth, and nothing which you can report can affect it in any way, though it may excite the emotions and allay the curiosity of a number of very ineffectual people

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55. Regan’s hands looked ineffectual, lying there in her lap

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56. James Flower, who had cried to be a creator, became a quiet, kindly little gentleman, somewhat ineffectual and very inefficient

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57. The Ripley gunners, unseasoned artillery volunteers who ought never to have been placed in such a position, fired one wild, premature, ineffectual volley, and bolted on horse and foot through the deserted village, while the Martian, without using his Heat-Ray, walked serenely over their guns, stepped gingerly among them, passed in front of them, and so came unexpectedly upon the guns in Painshill Park, which he destroyed

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58. After some ineffectual remonstrance I kept away from him, staying in a room--evidently a children's schoolroom--containing globes, forms, and copybooks

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59. It seemed infinitely more alive than the actual Martians lying beyond it in the sunset light, panting, stirring ineffectual tentacles, and moving feebly after their vast journey across space

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60. Those narrow straits of Sunda divide Sumatra from Java; and standing midway in that vast rampart of islands, buttressed by that bold green promontory, known to seamen as Java Head; they not a little correspond to the central gateway opening into some vast walled empire: and considering the inexhaustible wealth of spices, and silks, and jewels, and gold, and ivory, with which the thousand islands of that oriental sea are enriched, it seems a significant provision of nature, that such treasures, by the very formation of the land, should at least bear the appearance, however ineffectual, of being guarded from the all-grasping western world

61. Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates

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62. When the battle began, in the face of the enemy’s fire he moved Boggavut’s corps across from the right flank, against which Prince Eugène was making an ineffectual demonstration, to the support of the Second Army, and in his turn alarmed the French by a movement round their left flank with Uvarof’s cavalry and the Cossacks

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63. After a long but ineffectual search, the zealous Polish general who had undertaken the task returned to Napoleon and reported that there was not a single functionary left in Moscow, and that the town was deserted by all except a few foreigners who had stayed behind

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64. In order to facilitate this operation, a rumour was spread that when the French occupied Vilna they seized notes to the amount of many millions, but the report proved ineffectual

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65. ” But this threat proved entirely ineffectual, for the soldiers were naturally less afraid of death than of the prolongation of such a state of misery

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66. In spite of his ineffectual attempt at the prison, Nekhludoff, still in the same vigorous, energetic frame of mind, went to the Governor’s office to see if the original of the document had arrived for Maslova

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67. As I foresaw, the new consciousness of life for God, for the perfection of love, has become dulled, weakened, and when I needed it, these days, it proved itself to be, if not exactly ineffectual, yet less effectual than I expected

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68. All the methods of appointing authorities that have been tried, divine right, and election, and heredity, and balloting, and assemblies and parliaments and senate—have all proved ineffectual

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69. But, sir, I think, in the business of legislation, that the same line of conduct ought to be pursued, that we would pursue in the common and ordinary proceedings of life; for should any of us undertake to do any thing, suppose it be to get a vessel afloat that had been stranded, and the means employed were totally inadequate to its accomplishment, should we not abandon those means and try some other? We have tried the embargo, and found it altogether ineffectual, and we have no reason to suppose, that by a further continuance of it, it will answer any of the purposes for which it was intended

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70. In support of this motion, he alleged the impossibility of carrying the system into effect; for he conceived that the embargo had been ineffectual from the impossibility of carrying it into complete effect, and the proposed system would be as difficult to enforce

71. He had many other objections to this bill, among which were these: that, although it raised the embargo only in part, the permission to vessels to go out, would render the provision for a partial embargo nugatory; that, if the bill were to pass in its present shape, it was to be doubted whether any revenue officer of the United States would understand the duty enjoined on him by it; that a time only two days previous to the meeting of the next Congress was fixed upon as the day upon which the non-importation should go into operation, and thus the bill appeared to manifest a distrust of that Congress, who certainly would be more competent than the present Congress to decide on its propriety at that time; that a non-intercourse between these countries, would but compel our citizens to pay a double freight to and from the entrepôt, without producing any other effect than injuring our own citizens; that goods from these countries, although their importation were interdicted by law, would be introduced nevertheless; that the extent of the territory and seacoast of the United States was so great that all efforts to interdict the importation of goods must be ineffectual, for they would be introduced contrary to law; thus depriving the United States of the revenue which would be derived from them, if their importation were permitted by law

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72. But, sir, what is now the state of things? If it is possible to operate on France by commercial restrictions, let me ask if this bill will not accomplish that object? Let me ask if an American vessel under it can go to any port of France? It not only cuts off direct intercourse, but prohibits the importation of the products of France; and any attempt to carry on a circuitous commerce must be ineffectual, inasmuch as the produce will be liable to seizure when it comes into the ports of the United States

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73. Such was the strong bent of his mind towards the study of medicine, and its collateral physical pursuits, that the persuasion and remonstrances of his friends proved alike ineffectual, and he soon gave free scope to the prevailing inclination

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74. Randolph made a speech of some length in favor of the object of the proposed resolution, but going to show that the aid the Government could afford would be ineffectual to relieve famine, if it existed; and that unquestionably the most effectual relief that could be afforded on our part to the wretched and unfortunate people of Caraccas would be a suspension, as to them, of our restrictive system

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75. Pope Alexander III issued legatine powers over Scotland to the Archbishop of York, who, along with the Bishop of Durham, after an ineffectual war of minor threats and inflictions, excommunicated the King, and laid the kingdom under interdict

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76. it is said the embargo is a permanent measure, and its effects ruinous at home and ineffectual abroad, 24;

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77. the regular ongoing of the domestic work of the institution, nearly all of which except the cooking and washing is done by the students, furnishes no insignificant or ineffectual training in the art of housekeeping

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