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Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly silenced by the threat of a lunacy commission.

Goliah 2010

Then when the Mexicans fired off a few rockets at us in ineffectual retaliation, with negligible damage to us, we would then have responded with a massive bombing campaign against Mexican civilian infrastructure, killing a hundred or more Mexicans to every one American killed.

On Gaza: Huffington Post Takes Cues From Fox News « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

Of course the Résistance was militarily ineffectual from a conventional standpoint: It was a guerrilla movement, with a large civil component that emphasised civil desobedience and sabotage.

Think Progress » On Today Show, O’Reilly Compares Murtha With Hitler Sympathizers 2005

Walter Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission.

Goliah 1910

Bassett broke out in ineffectual protest, but was swiftly squelched by the threat of a lunacy commission.

Goliah 1910

However, the being a little slow, a little ineffectual, is perhaps the least offensive fault she could have; and/some/fault, being human, she

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

The reason Batman does so as a vigilante is because the official channels were and are corrupt and ineffectual, which is another problem he's trying to fix so as to render himself unnecessary.

hth_the_first: Batman's Sing-Along Blog hth_the_first 2008

Fukuyama's solution...can better be described as ineffectual internationalism.

Daimnation!: "Ineffectual internationalism": The failings of Francis Fukuyama 2006

The C.C.R.B. is characterized as ineffectual even by its supporters — only 1 percent of the recent complaints have reportedly led to disciplinary action.

Incident in the 70th Precinct Brenner, Marie 1997

Yet, even while he was weighing all the chances, he smiled to himself as he recalled the ineffectual little whistle that had gone out on the whistling wind.

On the Firing Line Hamilton Brock Fuller 1905