Sentence examples for increasingly futile from inspiring English sources

The American effort now seems increasingly futile.

But reducing the cost of credit is proving increasingly futile in increasing the flow.

Guzmán is fighting extradition to the US, though this appears increasingly futile.

But please, let us hear no more carping, because resistance seems increasingly futile.

Most fans see the owners as chief culprits, leaving us bottom and fighting a battle that's looking increasingly futile.

Michio Yoneda, chief executive of the Osaka exchange, said that in an age of global competition, fighting Tokyo "in a small glass" was increasingly futile.

Over recent decades, our system has been increasingly distorted by futile and pointless attempts to make state schools look more like private schools.

Nevertheless, the civilian politicians who actually were in charge in Britain could have sacked him or at least told him at the Somme and Passchendaele to desist from his increasingly costly and futile endeavours.

Reading of the fears of his increasingly distraught parents, their futile efforts to persuade their 22-year-old son to get help, and their ultimately unsuccessful attempt to keep him away from guns is chilling, sad and unforgettable.

His futile and increasingly delusional countermeasures culminate in the fortification and quixotic defense of his family's garden house in suburban Reinickendorf.

Moreover, patients and their SDMs should be counseled around the fact that although active and aggressive measures may be beneficial and potentially life-prolonging during the earlier phases of their malignant disease, they generally become increasingly ineffective, burdensome, and futile later in the disease trajectory.