Sentence examples for futile competition from inspiring English sources
Instead of demanding better, we engage in futile competition over crumbs.
Antagonistic pleiotropy results from the futile competition between different sigma factors associated with the RNA polymerase, and drives the elimination of RpoS (or σS) in environments requiring high levels of transcription that is dependent on RpoD (or σD or σ70).
But with her husband's tumultuous presidency still fresh in some voters' minds, she is often cast as a hyperpartisan Democrat who would try to achieve her ends by beating the Republicans at the same brutal (and often futile) competition that has dominated Washington for years.
As Richard Dawkins has pointed out in his recent book The Greatest Show on Earth, tree trunks, which exist only to enable plants to compete with neighbors that otherwise would overtop and shade them, are "standing monuments to futile competition – futile if we think in terms of a planned economy".
And policymakers need to give serious thought to the danger that the increasingly brutal--and for the overwhelming majority, futile--competition to join the tenured, funded elite is very likely persuading our most talented young people to seek careers in fields that offer a better shot at success than science does, to the detriment of the nation's scientific enterprise.
It did not need to be this way -- such competition was futile.
In a futile effort to eliminate the competition in the last race of the season, when he felt his car was incapable of winning, he tried to knock Jacques Villeneuve off the track.
When all of your attention is on pleasing your boss or keeping your job, you risk getting get tied up in futile head games, either in competition with your peers or in riding the roller coaster of your mood or of your boss's mood and trying to be what you think your boss wants, versus trying to be your very best.
Wage competition at that level is futile.
Biochemical signaling pathways can be insulated from impedance and competition effects, which inhibit modularity, through enzymatic futile cycles that consume energy, typically in the form of ATP.
