Sentence examples for futile in from inspiring English sources

Relaunches are mostly futile in politics.

There was something valiant and futile in his persistence.

For Mr. Chamola, any efforts to help the tourism industry are futile in the short term.

Yet the prime minister recognized that such reactionary schemes would prove futile in the long run.

That logic is at its most naked and futile in the treatment of disabled people.

But reducing the cost of credit is proving increasingly futile in increasing the flow.

(It may have been futile, in any case, as the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism could suggest).

Argument turns to whine and becomes futile in the face of madness.

But thoughts of settling scores are futile in a side failing to equalise.

Penny is younger than Smoltz, but he looked nearly as futile in an even sounder beating.

But really, there's no excuse for abhorrent inflight behavior (think episodes of crotch-grabbing, job-quitting and futile in-flight attempts to open the exit door).