Sentence examples for end in futility from inspiring English sources

Somebody had to make sure this tragedy didn't end in futility".

Again and again, the Nets took each dagger Reggie Miller threw at them and responded with a vengeance, refusing to let their record-breaking season end in futility.

The conceit can turn the search for someone into a search for that someone, which is fated to end in futility or compromise, whether conducted on the Internet or in a ballroom.

(AP) MORRIS TOWNSHIP: DEER BIRTH CONTROL -- A three-year project to reduce the growing deer population with birth-control inoculations has ended in futility at a Morris County park.

Even when her auditions for larger roles ended in futility, she found herself awed at the tryouts she heard through the rehearsal-studio door.

WASHINGTON — A frantic day of legislative maneuvering ended in futility for Speaker John A. Boehner on Tuesday, as the most conservative members of the House refused to back his proposed compromise to end the standoff over the federal budget.

WASHINGTON — A frantic day of legislative maneuvering ended in futility Tuesday for Speaker John A. Boehner, as the most conservative members of the House refused to back his proposed compromise to end the standoff over the federal budget.

In his next major novel, El astillero (1961; The Shipyard), an antihero named Larsen returns to Santa María to try to revive a useless and abandoned shipyard, ending his life in futility and unheroic defeat.

But to grow heirlooms as an end-all is an exercise in futility.

Like Camus's Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the hill, marriage is in the end a futility, an attempt to carve out a tiny pocket of stability, of something enduring, against the transience of the world and the unending onslaughts of time and mortality.

Against this background, it would be an exercise in futility to try to end the crisis by bombing the smugglers, and return the migrants to their home countries or some holding centre in north Africa.