Sentence examples for difficult if not futile from inspiring English sources
A corollary was that trying to stop proliferation was quite difficult if not futile.
"I always maintained that its rarity and distinctiveness would make any attempt to sell it extremely difficult, if not futile, because established arts and antiques dealers would easily recognise it as stolen property".
This attitude, combined with reluctance to spend valuable time ashore training and to accept the potential loss of income while attending safety courses, makes it difficult, if not futile, to offer safety courses for fishermen on a voluntary basis.
Knowledge being radically different from any of these established down to earth concepts starts to display that the approach based on conduction theory soon become ineffective, if not futile to be very precise in the quantification the flow of knowledge.
"We know the back-and-forth of getting to the first date can be frustrating, if not futile," the site reads.
Therefore, our results show that resuscitation for children, even in such difficult situations, were not futile.
According to Reise and Waller [ 48] this reasoning is problematic when working with quasi-traits: If the underlying latent construct is a quasi-trait, such attempts may be futile – it will be difficult (if not impossible) to formulate items that yield information across the continuum of the trait.
Proving motive is difficult, if not impossible.
This is notoriously difficult, if not impossible.
We are obliged to provide them because they are not 'futile' by the strict definition, and if a treatment is not futile by the strict definition then it is ethically and even legally mandated if patient or surrogate desires it [ 5].
