ineffectual是什么意思

双语用例

• 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.