Sentence examples for futile now from inspiring English sources

Shunning progress would be as futile now as the Luddites' protests against mechanised looms were in the 1810s, because any country that tried to stop would be left behind by competitors eager to embrace new technology.

They are descending into rage and madness, a state far removed, Gébé wants us to understand, from their old wilful ignorance and blind resignation, and yet one that is entirely futile now the worst has already happened.

There is nothing easier or less significant than apologising to former colonies for, centuries ago, having colonised them; nothing more futile than now expressing regret for our ancestors' actions that were then regarded as normal, though would now be condemned.

I see men in suits using it, so for me that means the whole thing has passed the tipping point and resistance is futile – best now to figure out how to make it all work.

If ever there were a time to reconsider this futile quest, now would be it.

Of course, such brainstorming may be a bit futile for now.

Faced with worst-ever shootings as frequent as "hundred-year" storms and with no hope of meaningful gun control reform, teaching unarmed six-year-olds to fight adult men with automatic weapons might seem depressingly futile right now.

Resistance may be futile, and even now ambivalent participation seems unbecoming.

Jenny T Colgan's Resistance Is Futile is out now from Orbit.

Unless the numbers turn out to have been a one-month blip, large numbers of people seem to have decided that a job search is, for now, futile.

On news of the Nablus killings, thousands of people stormed the gates of a PA prison in Nablus, demanding the release of Hamas prisoners interned as part of Mr Arafat's now futile ceasefire.