Sentence examples for futile by from inspiring English sources

Resistance Is Futile by Jenny T Colgan is published by Orbit.

The romantic disinterest in the Avengers series was parodied in this year's Age of Ultron with a brewing frisson between Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow and Mark Ruffalo's Hulk made futile by the pair's inability to consummate.

The pictures of soldiers' mutilated faces and starving Armenian children were published as a call to disarm, and were rendered futile by the rise of the Nazis and the Second World War; the pictures caused Friedrich's organization to be shuttered by the police, and he was forced to flee Germany.

Have a little surfing bar right there, with a man-made wave!" However, any efforts to bring MLS to San Diego – even surfable waves inside the stadium – might be rendered futile by the success of a team located just 20 miles south of the city.

These situations probably resulted in initiation of ACLS, whereas it was considered futile by the emergency physicians.

End-of-life decisions to withhold or withdraw life support were taken on collectively when maintenance or increase of life-sustaining therapies was considered as futile by all participants and that death would irremediably occur in a short-term manner.

The Rangers' sputtering offense had come up empty through 65 minutes of regulation and overtime, matched by an equally futile effort by Boston until a shootout ended the stalemate.

Syria's state-run media, which have portrayed the Aleppo fighting by insurgents as a futile effort by criminal gangs, inadvertently confirmed the insurgent advance, reporting that government troops deployed around the airport had repulsed attacks.

Impossible choices bring impossible burdens; he served his country in the best way he could not by futile resistance, but by doing what had to be done to keep the imperial master happy.

A major theme of the book is racial separatism, as Malcomson traces the futile attempts by all three groups to "escape" race by building racially pure communities.

Following the abandonment of their star sprinter, Nacer Bouhanni, on Wednesday, it was no surprise to see Cofidis revert to their old habit of justifying their otherwise futile existence by committing Kenneth van Bilsen to the escape party, where he was accompanied by Daniel Teklehaimanot and Perrig Quéméneur.