Sentence examples for futile operation from inspiring English sources

By their body language I surmise that those members feel removing any of the tarpaulins would be a futile operation.

The U.N. must be sure, though, that it is not embarking on a futile operation, for a failed mission would be worse than no mission at all.

Through some misunderstanding, however, a reconnaissance had been converted into an attack by General Toombs and some 400 men had been lost in a clumsy and futile operation at Golding's Farm.112 Lee got the unhappy details late in the evening, but had little time to ponder them.

With a fistful of savings, she has feistily engaged a roguish heart-of-gold lawyer, played by Alec Baldwin, to free herself of any more painful and possibly futile operations.

When she was 10, problems started with her right eye: a black mass in her central vision resulting in several futile operations, which led to pain and inflammation and eventually total blindness in that eye.

Staging and stage migration using different cross-sectional imaging techniques such as CT, MRI or PET help avoid futile operations, resulting in improved personalised treatment and reduced patient morbidity.

As a result of this, many patients undergo futile operations for disease that could never have been cured by surgery.

Worldwide, some medical centers may inform patients that they had benign not malignant disease (such as autoimmune or focal pancreatitis) only after undergoing a futile major operation.

It was possible, they argued, that aggressive cancers that could kill had already spread beyond the prostate by the time they were detected, making the operation futile, while the less aggressive ones would never spread in a man's lifetime, making the operation unnecessary.

The example of Afghanistan, where millions has been squandered in futile counter-insurgency operations, provides a particularly stark example of what can go wrong.

Understaging results regarding the resectability of pancreatic tumors leads to undertaking futile and dangerous operations [ 3, 4].