Sentence examples similar to it would prove useless from inspiring English sources

The first firemen to the rescue brought tons of water that would prove useless when it came to dousing the fires.

The world would be gravely endangered and the trillions of dollars that would eventually be spent on military responses would prove useless to stem to unrest.

Corps engineers said they had studied such options and concluded that because the threat of flooding on the Raritan comes from the ocean's tides and not from inland, any dredging would prove useless and that tidal surges would still overwhelm the towns.

It would prove a toothless and useless deterrent to fraud.

It would prove brief.

It would prove harder than expected.

But it would prove completely unworkable.

And so it would prove.

It would prove costly.

It would prove no easy task.

H5N1 might evolve so rapidly that a shot that would protect us today could prove useless six months from now.