However, studies reveal that such measures are generally ineffective.

The government was involved heavily in the dairy industry, but it was generally ineffective in improving nutritional levels in dairy products.

Attempts by several 20th-century scholars and critics to spark wider interest in his life and works have proved generally ineffective.

Odoriferous repellents, including mothballs and ammonia, are generally ineffective in expelling squirrels from buildings.

They are generally ineffective, and are no substitute for physical measures to exclude squirrels from building interiors.