Sentence examples for futile inquiry from inspiring English sources
"Angels dancing on the head of a pin" is usually held up as the apex of futile inquiry, but I bet the medieval scholars who looked into the matter were enraptured by it.
Again, fair enough; and it would be futile for the inquiry to try to prove outright lying in Mr Blair's statements about WMD.
Or, as an earlier chancellor, Jim Callaghan, once put it: "You leak, I brief", which is why leak inquiries are usually futile.
In the Ming dynasty, the influential Wang Shouren (Yangming; 1472 1529) spurned Zhu's method of inquiry altogether after a futile attempt to observe the li (patterning) in the bamboo outside his gate.
The diverse character of such motives, and the impossibility of penetrating into the hearts of men and ascertaining the truth, precludes all such inquiries as impracticable and futile.' Soon Hing v. Crowley, 113 U. S. 703, 710, 28 L. ed.
The inquiry notes that there were several futile efforts to set up a national registry in which U.K. nuclear facility workers could volunteer for postmortem studies.
Evolutionary linguistics has had a troubled history; in the nineteenth century, linguists declared that inquiries into the origin of language were futile, a view echoed….
It was a deliberate endeavor to thwart the process of inquiry, and to turn a trial into a futile form.
But this seems to me an inevitably futile inquiry.
Resistance would be futile.
