"Those transactions did not cause Anglo's collapse, it was a futile attempt to save the bank," said Brendan Grehan.
"You're right that it was a futile attempt to appear 'cool' and 'edgy'; the only result has been a series of letters addressed to 'Ms Thomas'.
He did try to persuade the home plate umpire, Jim McKean, to let him keep on pitching, but it was a futile attempt.
Whether it was a futile attempt to comfort my wife or a way for me to make sense of it all, I told her that we were going to do something good with this.
It's a futile attempt by the authorities to beautify the institution.
"Trying to do an analysis of the organization based on its accounting-created balance sheet is a futile attempt because it is driven by assets that aren't there, namely the quality of its members, and liabilities that aren't really there either," said Wilson H. Phillips Jr., the N.R.A. treasurer.
The chase she describes is a futile attempt to recapture an idyllic moment of her youth.
Edmonds, Comey wrote, believed that "affirmative action is a futile attempt only tolerated because 'social concerns are dominated by feeling, not science.' " The Flat Hat received many letters of protest.
It stated: "David Cameron's referendum gamble has proved to be a futile attempt to heal divisions in the ruling Conservative party.
The city was a Union supply depot during the American Civil War, and the Battle of Helena (July 4 , 1863 was a futile attempt by the Confederates to capture it.
The Nokia purchase was a futile attempt to compete in smartphones, which Nadella opposed.
