Mr. Wales' edits were "a futile process," he wrote, "because in our brave new world of transparent activity and maximum communication" the truth will prevail.
I identified with the struggle to filter experience in such a way that it at least seems to make sense, which is an ongoing, sometimes futile process".
They got as far as building some earth rampways before running out of funds, and the project is undergoing what I hope will be a lengthy and ultimately futile process of environmental review.
This is therefore either a futile process or I'm unemployable!
In most offices, coming to a consensus on a decision can be a time wasting and often futile process – thoughts are often shared in convoluted Email threads, some voices go unheard, and responses are often wishy-washy to the point of being totally useless.
"emoji only interviews are not only hard, but add very little value to anything… it's literally like… (money sign?) (dancing lady, bunny dancing ladies, family) … makes no god damn sense," is how Jordan summed up this entirely futile process — using, it should be noted, the medium of words.
"We have gone through the futile process of changing leaders, but leaving the corrupt and obsolete system intact.
This leads to a repetitive futile process that likely allows the formation of long stretches of gapped DNA that interferes with DNA replication causing DNA double-strand breaks that in turn trigger apoptosis (for review see ref. 10).
Using so many amino acids in order to facilitate the entry of just one amino acid is certainly an energetically futile process.
It is also conceivable that O-meG/T mismatches directly lead to DSBs due to nuclease attack at single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) arising from the futile MMR process.
