Sentence examples for continue futile from inspiring English sources

Some may insist on continuation of support, although it would be unwise and possibly disrespectful to these patients to continue futile treatment and unfair to others who might have been saved if those resources had been available.

Further, medium-strength evidence was found for the barrier that, even when the team confirms that treatment is futile and inappropriate, physicians follow the family's wishes when the family wants to continue futile treatment out of concerns about legal action [ 16, 26, 36, 39, 42].

Physician-related barriers to practice reveal that physicians lack confidence in their own judgment that treatment is futile and postpone decision-making about withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment until all treatment options have been exhausted and consider the family's request to continue futile life-sustaining therapy as mandatory.

If he does persevere, the unions — by continuing futile demonstrations that only annoy French drivers, businessmen, and tourists and have cost France billions to date — risk displaying their historical weakness, rather than their strength.

Johnny would contend in retrospect that this direction was a record company decision, a continued futile attempt to get airplay on American radio.

In a survey of emergency physicians, 92% of respondents cited fear of litigation as a reason for continuing futile resuscitation efforts in cases of cardiopulmonary arrest [ 14].

Mr Gul said it was pointless to continue: "these futile rounds harmed the respectability of the Parliament, harmed the honour of politics".The EU and America are pinning their hopes on a Russian abstention in order to pass a UN resolution on Kosovo this month.

It is claimed by some White House staff that Anna's ghost returns to the White House every July 6, silently banging on the front door to seek entrance and continue her futile pleas for her mother's life.

He managed to escape to Bern, where, with a few supporters (Fugitifs), he continued a futile opposition in exile.

Indeed, a year after the supreme court ruled on the legality of the law, congressional Republicans are continuing their futile struggle to scrap it.

Infuriated, the user threw insults at the editors who were deleting his addition, and blindly continued their futile fight.