Sentence examples for futile in terms of from inspiring English sources
The Baby Doe law requires states receiving federal money for child abuse programs to develop procedures to report medical neglect, which the law defines as withholding treatment unless a baby is irreversibly comatose or the treatment is "virtually futile" in terms of survival.
Meanwhile cash continues to build up on corporate balance sheets - unless it's handed back to shareholders in buybacks or dividends - and companies try to lift share prices with cost cutting, both of which may be, in part, ultimately futile in terms of growth.
And what if it's a headhunter with a new job offer or that old college boyfriend looking you up? Blowing a whistle or swearing into the phone is not only futile in terms of deterring calls, but it also plays into the hands of scammers and robocallers.
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".
The result of this examination consists in the verdict that all attempts to capture the true nature of reality in terms of these categories are futile because all these concepts are unintelligible, inconsistent and in the end self-contradictory.
In the absence of conceptual differentiation of patients who need ICU care from those for whom such care is futile, little may be said about the overall outcome in terms of mortality.
Combinatorial explosion renders any attempt of explaining emergent macroscopic phenomena in terms of microscopic low-level phenomena useless and futile.
However, as provincial health profession statutes vary greatly in terms of their regulation and public funding, it is futile to examine such specific utilization without the appropriate sample design.
It is essential to emphasize that, in terms of predicting Cu,brainISF or Kp,uu,brain, rank ordering of compounds with respect to Vu,brain is futile, since there is no causal relationship [ 4].
In terms of racial desegregation?
