GUS SAUTER invests $190 billion in client money for the Vanguard Group without trying to pick individual stocks, and he considers it futile to try to time the stock market by anticipating its ups and downs.
"It is a sad day in America when we can't find a senator to sign this objection," said Representative Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Democrat of Illinois, as he stared at the rows of senators, including Democrats who considered it futile and divisive to keep up the election battle.
So, for instance, if a patient refuses life-prolonging medical treatment because she considers it futile, it can be reasonable to say that her doctor's intention in complying with the request was simply to respect her wishes.
Looking at the wounded embattled garrison, Colonel Campbell considered it futile to hold out any longer.
Relatively few environmental groups are very active in the studied region, and none of the local environmental groups attend the RCC meetings because they consider them futile and not considering carnivore dynamics at all.
What one may consider a futile act is quite definitely not, especially to those struggling to survive on the receiving end.
In this respect, it might be considered a "futile" life-prolonging treatment.
You could pathologize the repetition, call it futile, but if you considered the aesthetics of repetition as such, you might actually begin to embrace eternal recapitulation.
That is why a large number of families demand what we consider futile life support for patients who clearly cannot benefit from it.
When the patient desires it, it cannot be considered "futile".
And so the Mets will lumber into late summer, foraging for every last victory their flawed roster can find, in an exercise some skeptical outsiders might consider futile.
