"futile action" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a wasted effort or a task that is unlikely to achieve the desired result. For example, "The workers continued to strive for a solution, although they knew their efforts were a futile action."
But if we respond, the response should not be just a spectacular action, a futile action.
After all, "calling in air is the last, desperate and usually futile action of an army that is losing" its ground-based counterinsurgency efforts.
A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "It is disappointing that yet again the PCS insist on pushing for futile action which benefits no one, and damages the services they deliver to the public.
The sections of futile action in this performance — the daguerreotype equipment laid out only to be put away again, the rope unspooled only to be spooled again, the restless posing for a daguerreotype that is never taken — were no doubt intentional, played against the urgent speed of Ms. Chuma and four other dancers.
"It will not work - among union members support for this strike diminishes all the time, and Londoners simply won't let this futile action stop them getting around their city".
Another hard-line newspaper, Resalat, said, "The only way to finish with the enemy's futile actions is retaliation for the assassination of Iran's scientist".
(Yep, you can guess how well that went… ) So it seems the tug-of-war between tech and politics is a struggle of Sisyphean duration; where futile actions are continually demanded, despite being all too apparently and hopelessly opposed to the laws of physics.
Childish and futile actions to prove yourself worthy?
Thus, firing people tends to be a futile management action.
The Sibneft workers launched a futile legal action while the £168m in extra revenue raised by the share issue was used by Sibneft to settle tax liabilities.
The invitation has been put out by Emma Watson; I would take that further, go local, because whatever decisions are reached in the powerful capitals of the world will be futile unless action is followed through in rural areas.
