Sentence examples for futile move from inspiring English sources

It was a predictably futile move: Chinese soldiers easily regained control, sending back 60 right away.

This is a truly futile move, because someone else is always going to get more attention than you, be more attractive, have more admirers, and so on.

After a few more futile moves, he extended his hand to Aronian in the traditional gesture of chess surrender.

A few minutes later, after another futile attempt to move the ball, Huff said, "One good thing about that play, they didn't have to call timeout to run it".

Yvonne's preference for sitting out in the open under a hot morning sun, rather than in the comfort of a covered market just a few metres away, sums up the problems for the Lusaka city authorities in their futile efforts to move street vendors from busy main roads into organised markets.

His efforts to salvage a seven-year romance proved futile, so he moved out of the co-op in northern Manhattan that he and his now former girlfriend had bought together.

That makes the president's rightward moves futile.

Obama pointed Friday to the year and a half he gave House Republicans to pass a bill to fix the immigration system, an ultimately futile wait, before he moved last month to protect up to 5 million people from the threat of deportation.

Characterized by many observers as a transparent attempt to salvage his political fortunes, the move was ultimately futile.

Nor was there an understanding that the majority Shia sect, backed by Iran, whom Saddam had pitched Iraq's military against in a futile decade-long war, would move quickly into the power vacuum created by the dictator's departure.

Nicholas rejected the suggestion and issued futile orders for troops to move on Petrograd.