Sentence examples for close to futile from inspiring English sources

No matter what management says, it must remember that the Mets are close to futile with Ordonez batting eighth in a National League lineup, rarely getting fat pitches with the pitcher behind him.

As a result, doctors of all sorts, especially oncologists, are reimbursed well for administering close-to-futile second- and third-line treatments and reimbursed hardly at all — financially punished, in fact — if they take the time to explain the case for doing less".

It had been a day of long speeches and internecine squabbles, and the overwhelming feeling was that opposition in Putin's Russia was, if not entirely futile, then close to it.

It may be a futile exercise, as even his lawyers come close to admitting.

Seeking "insight into Trump's thinking," as a source close to AT&T has claimed they were doing, is known to be a futile enterprise to anyone with a Twitter account.

From the start, Tuskegee alarmed whites who thought that educating Negroes was futile, or dangerous, and on at least one occasion the campus came close to disaster.

Family carers approach to deciding what was a desired intervention and what was futile, was closer to a dictionary definition of futility as not just something ineffective or useless but something lacking weight or importance – something frivolous, lacking purpose.

Futile attitudes lead to futile wardrobes.

We resort to futile devices against it.

I learned that I can be deeply and profoundly horrible to people to stop them getting too close in a futile attempt to prevent myself from feeling anything real or authentic.

I learned that I can be deeply and profoundly horrible to people to stop them from getting too close in a futile attempt to prevent myself from feeling anything real or authentic.