President Mikhail Gorbachev was arrested and ineffective attempts made to seize power.

Rejects or renders ineffective the attempts of others to help him or her.

According to Ellis, campus feminists made ineffective attempts to suppress the book.

As such, the Chancery issued injunctions in an ineffective attempt to prevent its use.

Though clearly all but paralyzed by depression now, she still makes a reflexive, ineffective attempt to tidy her hair.

From time to time they were rounded up, and ineffective attempts made at dispersal.

The company tried a similar tack with its ineffective attempts to get a toehold in the portable music player market.

He also cited what he perceived to be ineffective attempts at public education and awareness.

Nuclear weapons, like drugs, are doubtless bad for people, but if making them available reduces violence, is that worse than ineffective attempts to police them?

The idea of putting warning labels on drinks packaging is a simplistic and ineffective attempt to resolve a complex issue.