ineffectual

Operating on the assumption that 4B amounts a "sex strike," it's easy for opinion writers to shrug it off as ineffectual and unlikely to gain momentum.

In a sea of ineffectual biographies devoted to the Beatles’ guitarist, Rogovoy makes a case for Harrison’s most important contribution: the music itself.

And, like the wars of 50 years ago, it’s contributed to a one-term Democratic president who has, to date, been ineffectual at halting spiraling violence and brutality abroad.

“The data suggests, as does our experience, that most meetings are time consuming and ineffectual.”

But both the Greens’ small council and that of the Blacks have been rendered ineffectual by either a deficit of effective leadership or its absence.