| I'm the only candidate who's shown the bold leadership to support and oppose it, in both cases ineffectually. |
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| Because it was so poorly planned and ineffectually executed, there are those who fantasise about what better leadership might have accomplished. |
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| Orangutans, gorillas, and their ape relatives, meanwhile, will ineffectually thrash around in deep water or simply gurgle and sink. |
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| He took a long drink of yet another sweet black coffee and ineffectually wiped a tear from the corner of his eye. |
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| The invasion force making for Midway was ineffectually attacked on 3 June, and Midway was heavily bombed on the following day. |
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| It's likely to dissipate resources ineffectually and spread potential damage far. |
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| But the idea that these pundits' failure to disclose is the real problem is to swat ineffectually at flies. |
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| I spent the day in a deep funk, ineffectually shuffling around my office in an unproductive, sleep-deprived, hangover-tinged haze. |
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| I attended, some time ago, a lady suffering from lientery, for whom I ineffectually prescribed a low dilution of China. |
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| I spend the night with Polish engineers and local salmon-filleters, collecting anecdotes and dancing ineffectually with someone's giddy aunt. |
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| The mystique prevalent among those running micro and small enterprises often leads them to work ineffectually. |
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| Someone, after all, will have to make those painful decisions New Yorkers go on ineffectually talking about. |
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| Some officers used their batons while others resorted, bravely but ineffectually, to wielding fire extinguishers which they found at the scene. |
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| On his return to Montreal, Leacock hatched a scheme for making money, a pursuit which he had always followed unabashedly if ineffectually. |
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| Without effective EU co-ordination of social protection reforms, we risk reforming too slowly, too ineffectually and too unfairly. |
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| It is clear that despite everything, the institutions of the European Union have acted ineffectually. |
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| Mullan's own performance as John's drunken, abject father – ineffectually bellowing from behind clerkish spectacles – is poignant, but nearly unbalances the film's delicate economy. |
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| This consists of two red brooms, their handles extended into several sections that dance disjointedly and ineffectually, like deranged serpents, above scatterings of paper. |
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| The Levellers gave up all attempts to rouse the country and army to open rebellion, and started to conspire ineffectually in secret. |
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| Kibbitzed by sympathetic bystanders, the desperate driver tinkers ineffectually under the hood. |
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| There's something almost Chekhovian in the way these characters ineffectually deal with their individual failures. |
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| Somalia's frail Transitional Federal Government has struggled ineffectually to contain a complex insurgency that conflates religious extremism, political and financial opportunism, and clan interests. |
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| The numerous activities of the organizations are moreover ineffectually overstretched on too many fronts, with hardly any clearsighted collective objective. |
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| In southern Somalia, the Transitional Federal Government struggled ineffectually to contain a complex insurgency involving extremists, political opportunists and clan-based militias. |
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| Nothing is ironed, and there is a faint stain on the skirt that is yesterday's lunchtime soup ineffectually rubbed off with a Kleenex. The very important woman glances at you, from the feet upwards. |
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| The most we can do is recognise what the threat to freedom looks like today, impose sanctions, offer asylum to political refugees and make it perfectly clear where we stand, however ineffectually. |
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| Robert the Bruce declined to give battle and the campaign progressed ineffectually over the winter until supplies and money ran out in 1311, forcing Edward to return south. |
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| Citizens were reduced to ineffectually battling the blaze with garden hosepipes while waiting for a fire truck to arrive from a nearby settlement. |
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