Relaunches are mostly futile in politics.
In his recent memoir, "Born Round," Frank Bruni, who served as the Times' restaurant reviewer from 2004 until earlier this year, describes his efforts at camouflage — using aliases, wearing a wig and fake mustache — which were mostly futile once the dust-jacket photograph from one of his early books was posted on the Internet.
Efforts to control its application will be mostly futile, and our lives will be transformed by the data generated by the molecular biologists.
Oh, and this latest idea for state attorneys general to fight the new law in the courts will be mostly futile.
That argument was largely futile.
Measures to achieve an adaptation of these individuals were considered mostly futile, because their relation to other people to a large extent were determined by their family mentality and they often were considered to lack the psychological conditions for an adaptation to the current moral education and standards of behavior.
On paper, at least, Hollywood Boulevard — with the TCL Chinese Theater, famous star-studded sidewalks, and open-top tour vans filled with out-of-towners on what is, frankly, a mostly futile hunt for celebrity sightings — is as safe as ever.
If they push out even a minor change too abruptly, the uproar is deafening; a thousand (mostly futile) "One Million Strong Against Facebook's New Rounded Corners In the Linked Accounts Settings Screen!" groups spring up over night to collectively shout at a wall.
The course, in its second year at two polytechnic institutes, is the latest of many, mostly futile, campaigns by Singapore's government to get its citizens to mate and multiply.
