Sentence examples for futile challenge from inspiring English sources

He quickly defeated a futile challenge by Conradin and had him executed in Naples (1268).

Come to think of it, escaping this room seems more and more like a futile challenge set up to distract you from your personal and professional failures.

It is not the best situation, but it could have been a lot worse: Republicans orchestrated a well-financed but ultimately futile challenge against Wendy Davis, Democrat of Fort Worth.

There is a particularly fine chapter on Alberto Mora, then the general counsel of the Navy, who in early 2003 mounted a futile challenge to the interrogation policy, which he feared might result in war crimes charges.

It was barely a contest with Karen Cross being swatted by the 28th seed Lisa Raymond 6-0, 6-1, bringing to a premature end once more the home women's futile challenge.

He told students at the University of Cape Town that it may seem futile to challenge the world's "misery and ignorance, injustice and violence".

"This futile legal challenge tells you all you need to know about the government's misguided priorities: it would rather defend a privileged elite in the City than support a tax that could raise billions to tackle poverty and protect public services.

Therefore our focus should be on making a high-speed train that is as environmentally benign and economic as possible.Trains are designed for transport, not to provide electrical and mechanical engineers with futile intellectual challenges.

Over the years the industry has squandered many millions of pounds of its own money in futile legal challenges, but worse still it has wasted public time and money, which could have been much better spent improving public health".

Pitching beer against wine for some is futile, but choice, exploration and challenge can only be a good thing.

As Lee Kuan Yew, the former prime minister of Singapore, has noted: "In the security arena, the Chinese understand that the U.S. has spent so much more and has built up such advantages that direct challenges would be futile.