Sentence examples for futile expense from inspiring English sources

The desire to escape the intolerable humiliations, as well as the pains, of incurable illness usually combines with the desire not to be a burden or a futile expense; this is a perfectly respectable motive, which should not be thought of as the outcome of undue pressure.

The GD&CR was insolvent, owing £230,000 and needing £602,000 to complete the line; these facts emerged after another bruising session at which shareholders criticised the liabilities and futile Parliamentary expenses incurred by the directors of both companies.

Frankly, buying the Bentley nameplate looked like another futile gesture, at huge expense, to push VW upscale by making a few hundred big boxy cars a year.

The taxpayers will be spared the expense of protracted and futile litigation and Wrice will get justice.

Delivery of futile care can occur at the expense of others, even in the absence of resource limitation.

However, they are used, promoting a grueling and futile quest for quantity of publications, at the expense of quality, reflected in the infamous "publish or perish" catchphrase.

Similar to that proposed for futile metabolic cycles, the energetic cost may be the necessary expense for running an extremely sensitive system [ 62].

At first they brought a Manchurian "hair restorer" to New York at great expense, but a year's worth of treatment proved futile.