Sentence examples for futile confrontation from inspiring English sources

Military positions match each other, post for post, along each edge of the zone in futile confrontation, the flapping red crescent flags of the Turks almost touching the blue-and-white stripes of the Greeks.

Ultimately, this underscores the need for Greece to be served by more responsible leadership that understands and pursues the art of effective diplomacy and not futile confrontation.

While the absurd, futile confrontation between the Yooks and the Zooks has ended in other parts of the world, tensions between Cold War adversaries continue to escalate on the Korean peninsula as North Korea threatens another test of its nuclear Big-Boy Boomeroo while the United States considers deploying a Jigger-Rock Snatchem or Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery in South Korea.

It's critical that Obama succeed or a futile confrontation-sanctions scenario will be locked in.

At some point in Moscow's futile confrontations with the outside world — so long as the West took care they remained futile — some Soviet leader would feel the need to achieve additional support by reaching down to the immature and inexperienced masses.

"The events of the last days in the Ukrainian capital have shown that our attempts to solve the conflict peacefully, without recourse to a confrontation of force, remain futile," Mr Zakharchenko said in a statement on Saturday.

He feels that the bloody confrontation his men are involved in is a futile waste, and dreams of destroying Branston Bridge a wish carried out by Blondie and Tuco.

The presence of the American squadron augmented the strength of the Grand Fleet to the point where any confrontation attempted by the Germans would likely have been futile.

It is totally futile.

Resistance may be futile.

Futile rage helps nobody.