Sentence examples for futile that from inspiring English sources

You know how futile that is.

We should have learned by now how futile that is.

Furyk knows how futile that can be, and he has turned down many offers of help.

At the end of October, when it became clear that the battle was futile, that same team, together with palliative care specialists, helped him make his own decisions about how the end would go.

More than a year ago, the federal judge presiding over the case said it would be expensive and futile — that is, a waste of time and money — for the government to seek capital punishment for Mr. Basciano.

The appellate court found, however, that it was lawful to withdraw treatment from a patient when that treatment was futile, that is doing him no good, and that therefore artificial nutrition and hydration might lawfully be withdrawn.

He decided, he said, that their strategy was futile and that redistricting had to be fought in the Senate.

Yet, nearly two thirds clearly expressed that individual efforts are futile and that team efforts are necessary to reach further.

It's no secret that I loathe this brutal, futile war that's not making us safer.

The team concluded that continuing therapy would be futile, and that discontinuation of active treatment should be presented to the parents as the best option.

It reminds me of the efforts a decade ago to come up with a definition of "futile'; efforts that have become paradigms of futility themselves.