Although at first depicted as a futile Hail Mary, the Change.org petition and letter asking the electors to vote their conscience now offers fragile hope for millions of Americans who, for four full days, have hit their knees in a prayer for deliverance from the catastrophic November 8th election of Donald Trump.
Critics bill CARICOM's new push as a futile endeavour, at best.
Critics bill CARICOM's new push as a futile endeavor, at best.
But deciding not to take that longed-for trip to Thailand or Brazil or that miraculously cheap flight to Turkey or Berlin is still seen as cranky extremism or, at best, a futile gesture: the plane will take off anyway, and one may as well be on it.
He reached for his nearest weapon -- an empty bottle -- and tossed it at them in a futile act of bravado.
A Russian entrepreneur who was… Jesse Ventura's case against Chris Kyle, a former Navy SEAL, seemed, at first, like a futile one.
Ventura's case seemed, at first, like a futile one: the credibility of a two-time Silver Star recipient pitched against that of a loudmouth former rival of Hulk Hogan with a penchant for conspiracy theories.
Wilson converted a glittering debut at Princeton into a futile crusade against the college's snobbish eating clubs, from which he was rescued, Chace writes, by "the politics of New Jersey bossism".
With that, Rally Squirrel entered baseball lore along with other animal encounters, including the black cat that sauntered past the Cubs' dugout at Shea Stadium during a futile pennant chase in 1969 and the midges that swarmed Joba Chamberlain in Cleveland during a 2007 playoff game.
The decision to confront North Korea with overwhelming pressure — designed to bring its shipping and financial transactions to a virtual standstill — is based on the conclusion that re-entering negotiations to buy the dismantlement of the country's main nuclear facility at Yongbyon is a futile strategy.
