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Why, then, are we led to believe that her conniving ways are so ineffectual and misdirected?

On Thrones, power, politics, money, and force constantly trump goodness, in each of its ineffectual forms.

Hollande basically tried to remain above the fray and reinforced his already doleful image as an ineffectual executive.

The angel in thee and rejects the sprites That ineffectual crowd about his strength, And mingle with his work and claim a share!

Martin V. published a favourable bull, but it was ineffectual.

Whether freighted richly with the essential, or merely burdened with the ineffectual, it is equally irretrievable.

Of feeble justice, ineffectual, drop The sword and balance: mute the voice of joy, And hush'd the clamor of the busy world.

And the Supreme Court set the order aside, declaring it to be “ineffectual for any purpose and void.”