Sentence examples similar to a futile inquiry from inspiring English sources

Thus, Reynolds concludes, it would be unfair and unreasonable to penalize plaintiffs by virtue of beginning the running of the limitations period before a plaintiff has information bearing on scienter to engage in "an objectively futile inquiry". See id.

But this seems to me an inevitably futile inquiry.

Yet it led to a futile question.

"Angels dancing on the head of a pin" is usually held up as the apex of futile inquiry, but I bet the medieval scholars who looked into the matter were enraptured by it.

In the Ming dynasty, the influential Wang Shouren (Yangming; 1472 1529) spurned Zhu's method of inquiry altogether after a futile attempt to observe the li (patterning) in the bamboo outside his gate.

It was a deliberate endeavor to thwart the process of inquiry, and to turn a trial into a futile form.

A futile request.

It was a futile hope.

It was a futile endeavor.

This is a futile hope.

It is a futile hope.