Sentence examples for futile undertaking from inspiring English sources

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And it remains a futile undertaking, in his view, because of the efforts to support markets, especially in bonds, around the world.

The point is that nothing would be sufficient to prove that the parameters we find are actually those that drove the biological process, so pushing the similarity of the networks further is a somewhat futile undertaking.

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With attitudes like these, it is hardly surprising that so many of the 85 percent of victims who were asked why they did not report the attack indicated that the process was too embarrassing and ultimately futile to undertake.

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

The disease went un diagnosed for several years while she undertook futile therapeutic exercises.

Such a diverse canvass of conceptual and symbolic atoms allows Cult of Dang to create a world of both humanity and artificiality, an uncanny reflection of contemporary social biases, and a satire of the futile attempts we undertake to break away from the machine.

That opportunity came in 1910, when Democratic Party leaders of Dutchess county, New York, persuaded him to undertake an apparently futile attempt to win a seat in the state senate.

Less credible and entirely unsubstantiated is Mr. Booth's remarkable claim that the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 can be blamed on covert C.I.A. drug shipments, undertaken in a futile effort, Mr. Booth asserts, to gain influence over Middle East terrorist organizations holding Americans hostage in Lebanon.

Though Rader seems to be operating at least partially in a spirit of fun, selecting the best poets without imposing limitations of time, geography, or even language, one has to wonder: can such an undertaking be anything but futile?

Very shortly after the kick-off, the long hours of scouting, research and meticulous planning he had undertaken must have seemed a little futile.

But it can easily be demonstrated, and has already been understood for some time, that this attempt to bring unity into the multiplicity of faculties, although undertaken in a genuinely philosophical spirit, is futile.

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