Yet another brushoff could backfire, leaving the impression that Mr. Bush is an ineffectual leader.

However, he proved to be an ineffectual leader and requitted himself from politics to pursue real estate ventures).

It is a common solution to declining popularity among ineffectual leaders.

Do you see him as an unwise or ineffectual leader, yielding to the people's shortsighted demands rather than holding the people to their covenant?

Mr. de la Rúa was an ineffectual leader.

For a Klingon, the murder of a weak, ineffectual leader sounded like the normal course of events.

Officials had previously dismissed him as an ineffectual leader, with so little authority that he was virtually reduced to a bystander in his own republic.

Drunk and completely out of the control of their ineffectual leaders, they attempted to crowd in as well.

They filed the motion last week, arguing that Mr. Olszewski was an ineffectual and weak leader.

After Dirk's death Culum came into power but proved to be an ineffectual leader.