Sentence examples for futile protest from inspiring English sources

"I'm not an orphan!" Annie cries in futile protest.

As their target, David Blunkett, pointed out, it seemed a singularly futile protest to make to a blind person.

Second, because you can't take your wealth with you when you die (death is the great equaliser, every act of self-empowerment is a futile protest against death).

The government of Mexico was the only one that did not accept the Anschluss, and it lodged an ultimately futile protest with the secretary-general of the League of Nations.

Two weeks after Wisconsin's Governor Walker signed the law that stripped state workers of their collective bargaining rights, over loud but ultimately futile protest, unions have been steeling themselves for another crippling blow in nearby Ohio.

It has been nine years since a rather futile protest brought the issue of Augusta National's lack of female members to the fore, but this year it has risen again — in a much thornier form for the club that hosts the Masters.

This has drawn futile protests from Cambodian officials.

That prompted vigorous but futile protests from Nash's team, Promotion Factory, which is composed almost entirely of Italian transplants.

We learn of the policies of "blood segregation" adopted by the Red Cross and the military during the war, and of the futile protests that greeted them.

I never was quite certain about the nature of this summons (he kept pointing to the line during my futile protests).

Contrary to Uefa's customary advice, Klopp believes supporters without tickets should travel to Switzerland and insisted it was futile protesting against an allocation that was decided long ago.