Sentence examples for action as futile from inspiring English sources

Unless the minister plans to ban all such activity it seems an action as futile as the real Guy Fawkes's.

Further, the viewer trying dutifully to follow the action may feel his efforts are nearly as futile as Valjean's because most of the actors are so difficult to understand.

The project feels as futile as it is vague.

London's slogan was as futile as Take Back Control.

Huhne's words are as futile as Canute's.

The real-life examples are almost as futile.

That gesture, it now seems, was as futile as it was clumsy.

Is fighting cyber-crime about as futile as fighting the war on drugs?

Reversing the overly pessimistic jobs report is as futile as trying to unring a bell.”.

" The ant's store is as futile as the grasshopper's dreams.

That search though is as futile as looking for a liberal Democrat at a Tea Party protest.