Sentence examples for futile approach from inspiring English sources

This is a futile approach, one that is often taken, and whose failure is often used to justify the idea that genes don't matter.

She criticised Labour's plans as bringing in red tape, adding that it "wasn't just a futile approach, it was a damaging one".

As the hitting coach for the Colorado Rockies last season, Baylor often witnessed the futile approach by the Diamondbacks, who averaged more than nine strikeouts a game.

To challenge the bank's valuation of a home, a homeowner has little recourse but to spend his or her own money to order an appraisal — a potentially costly and futile approach.

A futile approach given the number of WP!

Epistemological foundationalism is a futile approach to knowledge.

I know this on a personal level since I dated the same woman with different names for nearly a decade before I finally woke up to how futile my approach was.

As they return to the city, Olivia and Charlie discuss plans with Astrid on how to capture Milo, but realize that since he can predict their every move, any plan would be futile, and approach the hotel directly.

Besides, being able to foresee the prognosis of a PDAC patient may help to avoid futile therapy approaches and to improve quality of life of those whose long-term survival is unpromising.

After a futile attempt to approach Herald Island, the ship began the journey back to Alaska; next day she encountered Bear, with Bartlett aboard.

Re "Senate Becomes O.K. Corral for a Surgeon and a Lawyer" (front page, July 11): Presenting the health care crisis as physicians versus trial lawyers reinforces the futile single-shot approaches to reform.