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He said the claimants' complaints about the "harmful effects" were "shunned and ignored" before the nurses were "penalised and buried" in an "oppressive and ineffectual investigation process" carried out by the trust.

America’s support proved less than steadfast, Europe’s ineffectual.

There’s no one culprit but instead a collection of factors that have provided the ineffectual Congress of today.

Its efforts to strike at Israel proved generally ineffectual.

The war has proved the military’s equipment—planes, ships, tanks, trucks and weapons—to be as ineffectual as its leadership.