Sentence examples for approaching futility from inspiring English sources

That we haven't a clue, after a year, whether Iraq is approaching futility or freedom reinforces Paul Krugman's pragmatic conclusions (column, April 23).

A team does not approach the futility of the 1992-93 Mavericks without being poor on both ends of the floor.

As a team, we were all concerned that we might be approaching the realms of futility".

But I am also a citizen of the Islamic Republic, and I know the futility of approaching the question any other way.

In fact, at the end of Appendix M, a combined use of its techniques with other approaches, specifically "Futility", "Incentive", and "Fear Up", is suggested.

The proposed approach to futility assessment applies to sequential clinical trials with interim analyses planned at either fixed calendar times or number of events.

There are various approaches to futility analysis based on CP (Halperin et al 1982, Lan et al 1982; Lan and DeMets, 1983; Lan and Wittes, 1988).

On 10 January 1917, when Aurora reached Cape Evans, the survivors were astonished to see Shackleton approaching them; they then learned for the first time the futility of their labours.

No one has approached Tanyon Sturtze of Tampa Bay for futility.

But this approach ignores the futility of such one-size-fits-all prescribing of medicines.

A review of documents released under FOIA (the Freedom of Information Act) shows that use of the "Futility" approach in the AFM was the rationale behind the use of loud music, strobe lights, and sexualized assaults and embarrassment on prisoners.