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.
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].
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.
He managed to escape to Bern, where, with a few supporters (Fugitifs), he continued a futile opposition in exile.
Infuriated, the user threw insults at the editors who were deleting his addition, and blindly continued their futile fight.
I continued my futile attempts, wanting to redeem myself and figure out the problem.
U.S. representatives to the International Monetary Fund continued their futile effort in recent weeks to block Angolan membership.
Indeed, a year after the supreme court ruled on the legality of the law, congressional Republicans are continuing their futile struggle to scrap it.
