Sentence examples for futile labour from inspiring English sources
Rather than make commodities for the art market, he used his body in displays of intense yet futile labour.
And it entangles the police, courts and customs authorities in mighty, expensive, and generally futile labours.
But it was the tortuous and futile investigation into the Labour "cash-for-honours" allegations that thrust him most prominently into the limelight.
Strenuous efforts were made to release her; on 14 February Shackleton ordered men on to the ice with ice-chisels, prickers, saws and picks, to try and force a passage, but the labour proved futile.
The Lib Dems' suggestion that a Labour vote would be futile isn't true at all.
Candide at last renounces the search for absolute truths as futile and settles for the simple life of labours within his reach, "cultivating his garden".
That's why Labour have called Wednesday's vote to try to stop this futile, divisive and ideologically driven cull".
It's every bit as futile as the name suggests – a hearty laugh in the face of anyone still labouring under the misconception that books are one of humankind's best tools for mind-expansion.
If only Labour MPs would accept that Jeremy Corbyn was democratically elected as their leader and stop their futile sniping.
She criticised Labour's plans as bringing in red tape, adding that it "wasn't just a futile approach, it was a damaging one".
