Are you currently making futile efforts to pin said dessert to your "Fancy Dessert" board on Pinterest but failing?
The power calculation is based on the (conservative) assumption that 40% of patients currently undergo a futile treatment.
Californians will also save hundreds of millions in scarce law enforcement dollars currently devoted to enforcing these futile laws.
Patients may be refused admission on the grounds that treatment is futile or that they are currently not ill enough to benefit from ICU therapy more than conventional ward treatments.
Currently, the U.S. policy of poppy eradication in Afghanistan is futile, unimaginative and fails to take into account the economic needs of the Afghan population.
Francois Hollande, currently leading in the polls, called on his rivals to "avoid these false debates and futile rows", warning that they had left Muslims and Jews in France hurt, regardless of their politics.
Indeed, one of the strategies currently adopted by Ontario intensivists to avoid or limit medical care that is perceived to be futile is to make the decision for the family, or refuse to accede to demands for treatment [ 2].
More fundamentally, there is currently a huge sandbag blocking fair trade from further acceptance: mainstream economics holds that it is largely futile, or even counter-productive.
A currently popular bumper sticker reads, "When Clinton Lied, Nobody Died," a statement whose tone now seems as full of futile nostalgic yearning as a plea for the Dodgers to come back to Brooklyn.
In Israel, rightist Likud coalitions, such as the one currently led by Benjamin Netanyahu, have controlled the nation's present for so long that it may soon be futile to try to retrieve a Jewish past that they have not contrived.
