Sentence examples for futile missions from inspiring English sources

They flew some twenty-three valianthoughgh futile missions, and on an unspecified number of them their debonair colonel manned the gun bay, supposedly reciting Corneille above the din of ordnance and propellers.

They sent their troops on futile missions in the quest to be awarded Combat Infantry Badges.

On many days fiction seems like a futile mission.

I wish you would give up this futile mission of yours.

To this end, Eisenhower dispatched a futile mission in January 1956 in hopes of reconciling Cairo and Tel Aviv.

Nothing's perfect, but the Times and the Post, on a noble, unsolicited and possibly futile mission, will be damned if they don't try anyway.

In 1999, Mr Murdoch sent Trevor – who still has the Aussie passport (which is more than Rupert) he applied for as a youngster – down under on a futile mission to win the monarchy referendum.

Pope Francis has said the strike would be a "futile mission".

But Olivia is there on a futile mission to get an answer from Fitz about Operation Remington.

As the government searched for Fawkes's accomplices, Grant and the others engaged in a futile mission for support for the uprising.

But it ultimately proved a futile mission as, just like in all but two of Nadal's previous 87 matches here, the incredible Spaniard proved invincible, winning 6-4 6-4 6-4.