1 It would be futile to protest.

2 My efforts to go back to sleep proved futile.

3 The president described these activities as futile.

4 Their efforts to revive him were futile.

5 My appeal proved futile.

6 Trying to please other people is largely a futile activity.

7 Attempts to get supplies to the region are futile because troops will not allow the aid convoy to enter the city.

8 He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.

9 Their costly and futile attempt to subjugate the Afghans lasted just 10 years.

10 It was futile to continue the negotiations.

11 It was futile,[]still they fought.

12 It will turn out a futile attempt.

13 All my attempts to cheer her up proved futile.

14 Their attempts were impressive but ultimately futile.

15 It would be futile to sustain his life when there is no chance of any improvement.

16 It's quite futile trying to reason with him - he just won't listen.

17 The attempt to change his mind proved futile.

18 She fought the futile urge to draw breath.

19 It was all so sad, so depressing, so futile.

20 All efforts to save the child proved futile.

21 Throughout the 1960s, politicians kept up a rather futile polemic as to whether the General cared about anything except foreign affairs.

22 Like many in Russia, she blamed the country'sfailings on futile attempts to catch up with the West.

23 They were killed, to the last man, in a futile attack.

24 I must confess, Holmes, I had thought there were few more futile questions than speculations about the existence of atoms.

25 The idea was sound, but events of 14 July made it futile, for Bismarck's telegram had the desired effect.

26 Protestant endeavours to extinguish popular superstitions and the widespread belief in magical remedies also proved largely futile.

27 Firstly, it allowed the Government a potential escape route from the escalating costs of its apparently futile tough tactics.

28 Until these patterns are changed or eliminated, any attempt at improving individual performance is likely to prove futile.

29 Indeed, attempts to reshape the opinions and behaviour of today's toe-happy adults are plainly futile.

30 The goal is not to punish the rebels, but to convince them that it is futile to resist.

1 It would be futile to protest.

2 My efforts to go back to sleep proved futile.

3 The president described these activities as futile.

4 Their efforts to revive him were futile.

5 My appeal proved futile.

6 Attempts to get supplies to the region are futile because troops will not allow the aid convoy to enter the city.

7 He brought his arm up in a futile attempt to ward off the blow.

8 Like many in Russia, she blamed the country'sfailings on futile attempts to catch up with the West.

9 Their costly and futile attempt to subjugate the Afghans lasted just 10 years.

10 They were killed, to the last man, in a futile attack.

31 Futile pastime: memorising the Latin names of 150 fish species when they've never even owned a goldfish.

32 Until attitudes at work are changed, attempts to improve performance are likely to prove futile.

33 Like many untalented people, he was full of futile energy.

34 The demonstrators denounced the economic summit as a futile and fruitless exercise.

35 People will rightly see this as money badly raised and badly spent, futile frittering of fortunes to virtually zero electoral effect.

36 They showed no qualms in spending ￡3 billion in a futile attempt to prop up the Pound.

37 Or, in keeping with theme week, the hapless Wile E.. Coyote in futile pursuit of the Roadrunner.

38 Resisting change is as futile as resisting weather, and change is our weather now.

38 is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find good sentences for a large number of words.

39 A horrible series of futile uprisings against impossible odds and always ending in butchery and defeat for the rebels.

40 But a sense of apathy arises from the feeling that life is pointless and futile.

41 Admiral Nagumo received word of his new assignment as he headed back from the futile sortie toward the Marshalls.

42 Even had Schumacher issued the command to stop, it would have been futile.

43 There is real hope, probably futile, that the second hike to 17.5 percent will somehow be wished away.

44 It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.

45 While change without evaluation is dangerous evaluation without at least the possibility of change is futile.

46 The point to recognize is, of course, that it is futile to waste time classifying studies into neat little boxes.

47 It was, instead, a futile and costly detour in making the transition from a feudalistic system to a market economy.

48 Demonstrators condemned the summit as a futile and fruitless exercise.

49 Policy strategies which attack the social and economic determinants of ill-health are dismissed as futile attempts at social engineering.

50 I was not ready to become the care-taker of another living thing which would, like me, eventually turn futile.

51 But surely the activity of a postman in such a void would be utterly futile and valueless.

52 Minutes later a team of paramedics began a futile effort to revive the boy.

53 The Bishop condemned what he called "this futile and tragic loss of life".

54 It would be futile now to think of trying to persuade Jake to rethink his intended marriage to Janice.

55 Sundays he slept even later than usual, in a futile effort to avoid the day.

56 The males, whom the women abuse from birth, spend their lives in a futile pursuit of their masculinity.

57 At least that's what I gather from watching Art Jacobson's futile but valiant efforts to build community on the Internet.

58 It was futile to try to apply logic from the outside here.

59 She would not even bother to argue the rights and wrongs of what had occurred since it would be futile.

60 But attempts to galvanize Chiang into action were largely futile.

61 A number of women were quite bitter about their futile attempts to get clergy to help.

62 Why should the Tory rebels vote for a wrecking amendment which has been rendered futile?

63 His decision to stop drinking, made two days ago, now seemed futile, a pathetic old man's gesture.

64 There is a clear realisation that attempting to export western trade unionism to the East would be futile.

65 These are the remains of unfortunate wretches driven to kill themselves in a futile attempt to escape the torments of the Castle.

66 Kevin made one last futile attempt to persuade Sandra to go with him, then left.

67 Trained to futility by now, we will be ready to engage in further enterprises of a futile nature.

68 The subversion attempts proved predictably futile.

69 She turned on the radio with a futile gesture.

70 He concluded that resistance was futile.

71 Any added word would have been commonplace and futile.

72 The subversion attempt proved predictably futile.

73 That futile young man does nothing but waste money.

74 Brothers,[] let us squander our morning in futile songs.

75 He is a futile sort of person.

76 Make us guffaw at thy futile follies.

77 A hard - determinist, therefore, believes that human effort is not futile.

78 The US House of Representatives has no justification for making irresponsible comments on the Article 23 legislation. It is a futile attempt.

79 It is futile to develop perverted knowledge that increases envy and the other five poisons.

80 The word image was futile unless it conveyed essential meaning about life.

81 In the case of high inflation cannot be effectively inhibits, rely on the Government's administrative intervention price will undoubtedly be futile.

82 Any attempt to distort or een deny resolution 2758 ( XXI ) is futile.

83 Any unrealistic objective is not worth pursuing sedulously since it is doomed to a futile project.

84 From the scrofulous hobos of Samuel Beckett to Antonioni's tired-blooded aristocrats, the anti-heroes of modern art endlessly suggest that waiting for God is futile, since life is without meaning.

85 It was a strange, weird, interesting and yet futile battle of wits.

86 His ambitions had dissolved amid repeated and futile efforts to pass his physical-training test.

87 This caused the utmost anxiety and rendered all concentration futile.

88 It is futile to practice a Mahayana teaching that lacks the path of compassion.

89 The most futile of the expeditions was the Children's Crusade, which took place in 1212.

90 Several futile attempts to terrorize the Poseidans were attempted by the Aryans, and each was quelled.

91 Exedore ceased his futile efforts to steady his work and with some difficulty swiveled to regard the strobing databanks of the Awareness, data scrolls and cards tattooing to the floor at his feet.

92 He groaned as he saw that his hopes were futile.

93 Any attempt to distort or even deny resolution 2758 ( XXVI ) is futile.

94 After months of futile labor , the scientist suddenly had a brainstorm and solved the problem.

95 She regarded him as her doctor of medicine, who would at least present some futile drugs.

96 The EPI's Senior International Economist Robert Scott, author of the job report, shrugs off critics who say his call for a sharp appreciation of the Chinese currency is futile.

97 Paclobutrazol can retard seedling futile growth more strongly under normal density than under high density.

98 The forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.

99 SOM say they could have coaxed the building to produce more energy but it would have been futile because there's no facility in Guangzhou to feed self-generated power back into the grid.

100 Trying to draw level with Asia in chip making would be futile.

101 Amid the turmoil, it might seem futile to sketch out the future banking landscape.

102 Without microscopes and other modern equipment, attempts to teach science were futile.

103 Your mind knows that continuing to work hard is likely to be futile and won't solve the real problem of incongruence.

104 According to them, future proliferation is inevitable; stopping it is futile.

105 He shifted his hams - that futile and reflexive gesture of hospitality - and she sat down.

106 Applying SEO to a poorly designed and dysfunctional web site is futile.

107 Those who fashion a graven image are all of them futile, and their precious things are of no profit; even their own witnesses fail to see or know( ), so that they will be put to shame.

108 Through this jumble of futile activities came and went a strange throng of hangers - on.

109 He died for Germany in the gigantic and futile operation called Citadel.

110 It is always futile to try to hold back the progress of history.

111 He was limping rather badly and fagged when he finished the futile exploration of his domain.