Sentence examples for futile system from inspiring English sources

After two days spent fruitlessly chipping away at the rock with his knife and devising a clever but futile system of pulleys with his climbing clips and ropes to hoist the boulder clear – he was defeated because climbing rope is stretchy and he couldn't obtain the required tension – he put his knife to his arm, only to find it was so blunt he couldn't even cut his body hair.

They agreed that it should not keep itself pure: a philosophy that confined itself to logical truths, seeing itself as a kind of mathematics of language, had sealed itself inside a futile, circular system of self-reference.

Just one of the futile hoops the system regularly makes clients jump through.

"My answer is to take the emphasis off the high-tech, expensive, futile health care system, and be a little kinder".

However, even much lower protein concentrations typical of functional reconstitution may render phase diagrams of simple lipid/detergent systems futile.

But open revolt against the system is futile.

It would seem unwise and likely futile to pursue a system of quotas for achieving greater intellectual diversity on campus.

But other officials say that Mr. Furrow was simply a violent, hateful man, and that trying to blame the shootings on the failures of the mental health system is futile.

Attempting to build such a system is futile, and will only give criminals and hackers new ways to hide.

Trying to reserve a seat is futile because the reservation system has not worked on the train.

These companies offered different ways of helping to attack that complexity, but over time, with all the cloud-based big data solutions, rolling a Hadoop system seemed futile, even with the help of companies like Cloudera and Hortonworks.