Sentence examples for futile war from inspiring English sources

And, by the way, we're still fighting a futile war in Afghanistan that we've been fighting with nonstop futility for nearly a decade.

They are fighting a futile war".

The Saudis are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on their futile war on Yemen.

Americans, after years of futile war in Vietnam, were weary of the whole region.

Mentions his 1985 hit, "Mask," and a futile war with the studio over the soundtrack.

Then there's our futile "war on drugs" that has created so much pain of its own.

The drama of waning American power is being re-enacted in the Middle East and South Asia after two futile wars and the collapse or weakening of pro-American regimes.

Aside from the homesteaders themselves, the act probably had its greatest impact on Native Americans, who fought a series of bloody, futile wars against the constant encroachment of white settlers in the post-bellum years.

When I was a correspondent in Jerusalem between 1995 and 1999, I came to believe that there was another reason, to do with the political psychology of Israelis, which explained why they fought these bloody but futile wars.

The devastating, messy slog of Bissell's literary journey reminds us that the answer to his question — "Why another?" — applies not only to books about Vietnam but also to arrogant, futile wars like Vietnam... and Iraq: Why another?

Prize-winning documentaries on the continuing world economic crisis, the threatened extinction of our planet, the costly futile wars we're engaged in – all provided a factual underpinning to feature films reflecting a widespread anticipation of impending apocalypse.