7 sentences with 'ineffective'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ineffective and other words derived from it.
• « The vast majority of the Persian forces were relatively ineffective peasant conscripts, reluctantly recruited from home and forced to fight for a king to whom they had little personal loyalty. »
• « The Merovingians remained in power for 200 years. In the end, they became relatively weak and ineffective, with another clan, the Carolingians, running most of their political affairs. »
• « There were also many occasions during the Middle Ages when individual popes were weak and ineffective and could not even enforce obedience within the ecclesiastical hierarchy itself. »
• « Between Abbas's death in 1629 and the end of the dynasty itself in 1722, Iran suffered from ineffective leadership and a return to the semi-anarchy of tribal rule. »
• « Instead, the League of Nations quickly revealed itself to be weak and ineffective, systematically failing to act when nations launched wars of invasion (beginning with the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in northern China in 1931), handing over territories in Africa and the Middle East to European imperialists rather than to the peoples who actually lived there, and failing to attract members from the very country whose leader had proposed it in the first place: the United States. Instead of inspiring confidence and hope, the Society appeared to many as the symbol of international dysfunction. »
• « Hitler's unquestionable power of public speaking and political manoeuvring transformed the Nazis from a small fringe group into a major political party, and although he was largely ineffective as a practical decision-maker, he remained central to the image of strength, vitality and power that the Nazis associated with their state. »