Sentence examples for apparently futile from inspiring English sources
Asked if he regretted his party's many years of apparently futile opposition, Mr. Nyan Win said, "Not regret, not regret.
Even the apparently futile conspiracies of this period had the useful effect, however, of keeping Italian problems before the governments of Europe.
Thus, anthropologists became more concerned with functional and structural accounts of religion in society and relinquished the apparently futile search for origins.
That opportunity came in 1910, when Democratic Party leaders of Dutchess county, New York, persuaded him to undertake an apparently futile attempt to win a seat in the state senate.
A similar failure haunts policy in Tibet, where our correspondent, on a rarely permitted trip to the region, found the attempt to buy Tibetans' loyalty through the fruits of development apparently futile (see article).
The poor child's task is exhausting and apparently futile as he goes around asking questions, taking photos and writing stuff down but, of course, his journey generates a redemptive vernacular archive of New Yorkers' experiences.
Efficient, calculating machines driving through unpopular measures across the eurozone with the battle cry "resistance is futile" are apparently the order of the day.
So it may lead to a situation in which apparently functional models are actually futile on the basis of spurious chance temporal correlations associated with variations in nonanalyte spectral features within the spectral data.
Mandarins, brandishing charts showing crime rising since the 1960s, would counsel their new master against futile, costly quests to reverse this apparently inescapable fact of modernity.Michael Howard ignored them.
Wilfred Owen and Blackadder have apparently conned us into thinking the great war was futile, when in reality it was a "just" war provoked by German aggression.
Apparently inspired by a trip to Colonial Williamsburg and a futile search for dolls for her nieces, Rowland funded her idea at age 45 with $1.2 million in savings from textbook royalties.
