They are no longer engaged in futile attempts to change one another.
When it comes to losing streaks, it's difficult to conjure one longer or more futile than the one established by Britain in the America's Cup.
Meanwhile, an 18-year-old with a brain tumour is alive longer than expected, his prognosis deemed futile.
Making a rare appearance in public, Ms Yingluck told the National Legislative Assembly that the proceedings were futile because she no longer holds any political position.
Older people who have already lost their jobs and are unlikely to find another would no longer have to continue in a "futile and debilitating search," Galbraith said.
Looking at the wounded embattled garrison, Colonel Campbell considered it futile to hold out any longer.
This is a show in which the silences grow ever longer as Seaton's rebellion proves ever more futile.
In heart failure, the heart can no longer pump efficiently and grows large in a futile attempt to overcome the problem.
