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• a  not producing an intended effect
• s  producing no result or effect
  the therapy was ineffectual
• s  lacking in power or forcefulness
  an ineffectual ruler

• The past team building exercises of the Company have been boring, ineffectual and a waste of time.
• On foreign policy the Minister's ideas have been muted and ineffectual.
• The police ineffectual in restraining the drug lords from carrying out their deadly trade.

• ineffective
• uneffective
• futile
• otiose
• unavailing
• unable

• effective

News & Articles

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• After Slow Start, Obama Administration Finds its Voice on Surveillance
  After a week of mostly ad hoc, often cryptic and generally ineffectual responses to leaked details about its anti-terror surveillance programs, the Obama administration has finally begun articulating a clearer defense of those programs. It amounts to a two pronged-message: The snooping isn’t as bad as it sounds, and your civil liberties are scrupulously protected. President Obama kicked off the ...
  June 18, 2013 - Swampland
• How the Clippers could walk away
  How could the Los Angeles Clippers possibly walk away from a negotiation that would’ve yielded them Kevin Garnett and Doc Rivers for a relatively unproven young center, a couple of first-round draft picks and the relatively small burden of taking on one or two mid-level contracts? That’s the question gnawing at some Clipper fans and many Clipper skeptics on Tuesday, but however ineffectual the ...
  June 18, 2013 - ESPN Blogs

Quotes

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• John Sentamu in Episcopal-Life
  At best, [Mbeki] has been ineffectual in his efforts to advise, cajole and persuade Robert Mugabe to reverse his unjust and brutal regime,Sentamu wrote. "At worst, Mbeki is complicit in his failing to lead the charge against a neighbor who...
• Richard Holbrooke in AFP
  Climate change alone is unlikely to trigger state failure in any state out to 2030, but the impacts will worsen existing problems -- such as poverty, social tensions, environmental degradation, ineffectual leadership and weak political... Thomas Fingar http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fingar&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGPxjUf0bcjH7Vpx2AeqUwdSG2BCQ CNN International http://www.google.com/url?q=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/25/climate.change.security/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFPi1dDlRn1iAEBfyaD0V0Q00B1eg Jun 25, 2008 51310 68873 ineffectual We are downgrading our efforts to eradicate crops-spraying, a policy we think is totally ineffectual," Holbrooke, the special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said in his testimony.