Sentence examples for fairly futile from inspiring English sources
It would have been fairly futile".
But the strategy has been fairly futile.
The government's efforts to prepare for euro entry by 2012 look "fairly futile", says Mr Shearing.
Momentum swings between sides so quickly that predictions at this stage are fairly futile.
Coming after four sets of U.N. Security Council sanctions against the mullahs since 2006, the report suggests a lengthening sweep of fairly futile countermeasures — ones that have a kind of multilateral kinship with Europe's inability to deal head-on with its potential financial implosion.
The dilemma for the West is that doing nothing is not going to bring them to an end; intervening, on the ground or from the sky, usually adds to the tensions; and sponsoring peace talks has proved a fairly futile exercise.
As it happens, it would also be a fairly pointless and futile gesture to German taxpayers, in the sense that if the worst happened - which is that it looked as though a country like Italy would default on its debts - Germany could never be insulated from the huge losses, even if the Italian bonds were owned by the Italian central bank rather than the European Central Bank.
Emanuel has studied the fairly sketchy research and concluded that, with the possible exception of hospice care for cancer patients, measures to eliminate futile care in dying patients have not proved to be significant cost-savers.
Resistance may be futile.
