Sentence examples for futile of from inspiring English sources

Such an effort would be futile, of course.

Giving instructions is one of the most futile of all human endeavours.

Now you're triumphant, a hero in investment circles who exposes the S.E.C. as the most futile of agencies in your new book, "No One Would Listen".

And after 58 years of hostility, including three wars, negotiations could take years.Yet, in the shorter term, this week saw a chance for the two countries to end one of the most costly and certainly the most futile of their battles.

Certainly L.B.J. tried to get to him, as he got to so many other young men — with that ominous "Greetings" letter conscripting them into the military — but clever Mr. Clinton managed to wriggle out of that predicament and go on to wealth and power, instead of having his future put at risk in the most squalid, ruinous and futile of Johnson's Brobdingnagian federal projects.

Therefore the player cannot have a free choice, and it seems futile of her to make any decision.

Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.

Modern chemistry was born out of the futile ambitions of alchemy.

"Can you think of a more futile gesture of patriotism than that?" I'm struggling, Freedom.

Inactivation of Mn-SOD activity leads to futile cycling of O-.2, resulting in an amplification of oxidative stress [69].

After several hours of futile exchange, one of the lawyers said to him, "Merrill Lynch has a lot of powerful friends".