ineffectually

ineffectual | American Dictionary

ineffectual
adjective
us/ˌɪn·ɪˈfek·tʃu·əl/
not able to produce good results:
an ineffectual teacher

Examples of ineffectual

ineffectual
At worst, principle-based ethics serves as an ineffectual checklist, ensuring that patient rights are "covered" but giving little guidance to the moral practice of medicine.
Although these particular companies lost their case, they were able to render the government's price controls ineffectual for more than 18 months.
Enforcement of the regulations has been comparatively ineffectual to date for a variety of reasons.
Unfortunately, the latter solution is ineffectual when the unknown angles are larger than 30°.
However, this act seems to have been ineffectual, suggesting something of what the gilds themselves thought of the idea.
Both the 1925 and 1927 resolutions were largely ineffectual, however.
All methods of supporting populousness, except by the interest of the proprietors, are violent and ineffectual.
Investment was booming, and government attempts to control it in the initial period after 1945 were seriously ineffectual.
The dominated character of these constraints renders them ineffectual in ruling out pickle as the output for input puzzle.
After all, beyond the often ineffectual setting fire to fences, incendiarism would be of little use in the initial physical opposition to enclosure.
The allowance of petty gambling creates unimagined disorder, but, law-makers feared, the arbitrary and ineffectual policing of such activities also yields a bitter harvest.
Despite its undeserved popular reputation as an aphrodisiac, opium was probably ineffectual in that regard.
But in itself the line between the therapeutic and the enhancing is ineffectual.
The result would be a life of holiness without the ineffectual (merely human) effort and attendant anxiety of the precisianist strain.
Feeding is poor, since the suckling reflex is unco-ordinated and ineffectual.
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