Meanings of prove ineffectual in anglès

Besides, he knew very well that the appeal was likely to prove ineffectual.

But they determined next morning, should other means prove ineffectual, to employ force.

Such an institute is welcome although there's a risk it might prove ineffectual or, worse, even unethical.

It was round Madame Bonaparte in particular that their batteries were raised, and they did not prove ineffectual.

The majority of both nations believed that the treaty would produce violent convulsions, or at best prove ineffectual.

Can it be that this strong and steady draft of conscience,-strongand steady as gravitation,-willultimately prove ineffectual?

It was clumsy and would no doubt prove ineffectual, but maybe it would give us a few more seconds.

The drawback to this strategy is that it will likely prove ineffectual, and the humanitarian disaster in Syria will worsen.

Where your memory fails you, and my files and wire jackets prove ineffectual, Inspector Weymouth's recollections may prove more accurate.

Taunts, jeers, ridicule, persecution, assassination even, were destined to prove ineffectual in the effort to suppress or exterminate these pioneers of Abolitionism.

The following suggestions are thrown out as likely to lead to valuable results, even though they should prove ineffectual for their professed object.

There was no use to appeal to delicacy; attenuating provisos would not help; small deceptions practised in the spirit of love would prove ineffectual.

But if these laws prove ineffectual they may yet exasperate the people, and that is precisely their most dangerous feature; they exasperate without deterring.

More than 20 years after his death, the effort has proven ineffectual.

The upper house demanded a free conference, which proved ineffectual.

This proving ineffectual, he leant over and nudged his shoulder.