Laws that are inefficacious in stopping crime.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

It is a sort of tenderness that is quite inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duke's Children] Reference

Or if her prayers were wider must they not be inefficacious?.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Caldigate] Reference

This disdain is not only inefficacious, however, but unsatisfying.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roots of Liberal Condescension] Reference

But the remedy itself, if applied, would prove to be inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference

The ideas which are the content of mind are causally inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION] Reference

Going to school can appear to be a waste of time and inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young Adult Spotlight: "Truancy Origins" by Isamu Fukui (Tor)] Reference

The sword is the braver way, although all ways are equally inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 18] Reference

We have already seen how inefficacious with her are all attempts at persuasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Caldigate] Reference

Even an executive customer service rep pledge to resolve the situation was inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bank of America Screws Even Ex-Employees Of 21 Years On Mortgages - The Consumerist] Reference

In his case at least the touch was inefficacious, for he was subject to scrofula all his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference

As far as producing the effect contemplated was concerned, the law was altogether inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

Through such inefficacious thinking they distress themselves and impair their level of functioning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Efficacy - Albert Bandura] Reference

The side effect of this is that the JLI had to look inefficacious so far as stopping him was concerned.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I bought – 13 February 2008 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources] Reference

The next was in 1641, when Charles I. returned from his imprudent and inefficacious journey into Scotland.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 339, November 8, 1828] Reference

A word must be said; but, alas! how inefficacious to do justice to the ingenuity so wonderfully displayed!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Three Clerks] Reference

Hence it is that the knowledge and profession of the truth, with many, is so fruitless, inefficacious, and useless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christologia] Reference

The earliest English treaty with Tunis was dated 1662; many more followed, and all were about equally inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Barbary Corsairs] Reference

Mathematical facts also seem similarly causally inefficacious, as do modal facts concerning what is necessary and possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturalism] Reference

Mathematical platonism would therefore establish that we have knowledge of abstract (and thus causally inefficacious) objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference

High-flying oratory proved utterly inefficacious in winning any major foreign-policy result he set himself to bring home in triumph.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terry Krepel: John L. Perry's Greatest Obama-Hating Hits] Reference

If the traditional standards are proved to be futile and inefficacious, let us find the unfaltering standards authenticated by reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

It is my belief, however, that had I attempted a different order of composition, my faculties would not have been found so pointless and inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Letter] Reference

The learned physician enters his protest against the use of it, (which he says is almost universal with the faculty,) as quite inefficacious and disgusting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference

Contemporary purveyors of the Way of Negation standardly amend Frege's criterion by requiring that abstract objects be non-spatial or causally inefficacious or both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abstract Objects] Reference

Therefore, unless perceptions are genuine substances and so not events, it seems to follow that for Leibniz, perceptions (and perceptual states) are causally inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leibniz on Causation] Reference

'Quite inefficacious to arrest her determinations.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

As this proved inefficacious, he resorted to other means.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4] Reference

Berlin at the rather inefficacious nature of the diversion made in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

"Simply if it should prove inefficacious in the form of a request.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Vittoria — Complete] Reference

And practically, since one cannot be executed twice, doubling the sentence seems inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference

If it is declared that argument will be inefficacious to move him, he is adored in the form of post.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference

Her young friend smiled at the inefficacious prayer, but promised to do all she could to oblige her.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Simple Story] Reference

I therefore once more directed squill, with decoction of seneka and sal sodæ; but it was inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases] Reference

Paradoxically, some deem human rights to be wholly inefficacious where their recognition is most required.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

When even this remedy proves inefficacious, and the patient survives it, the illness is pronounced incurable!.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Forbidden Land] Reference

That the penalty proved, as might have been expected, inefficacious, appears from several passages in the despatches of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference

In writing novels we novelists preach to you from our pulpits, and are keenly anxious that our sermons shall not be inefficacious.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph the Heir] Reference

It might be inefficacious, or he might perish in the desert before he met any one, but he did not give up all hope of a better fate.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War] Reference