Sentence examples similar to make futile efforts from inspiring English sources

Are you currently making futile efforts to pin said dessert to your "Fancy Dessert" board on Pinterest but failing?

(In the summer of 2010, he made a futile effort to rally support in Congress for ending the Bush tax cuts).

President Kennedy had foreseen this when he made a futile effort to persuade new exiles to settle in other parts of the country.

"The constitutional prerogative of the president," said Mr. Bush's chief spokeswoman, Dana M. Perino, "would make it a futile effort for Congress to refer contempt citations to U.S. attorneys".

But the lower federal courts disagree sharply over the question that the justices agreed today to decide: whether inmates faced with an administrative process that does not provide the type of relief they are seeking are still required to make a predictably futile effort.

You know that a work by Rosenquist is good when your futile efforts to make sense of it run in rather precise circles — mental wheels turning, pleasurably, in a void of decidable meaning.

My hair is large, frizzy, having its own struggle against my futile efforts to make it "presentable".

They met again in her study when she made a last futile effort to dissaude him from leaving the government.

Several futile efforts were made over the years to blast it apart.

Despite the fact that the Democrats hold majorities on key issues such as healthcare and job creation, the Republicans relentless hold on the filibuster will make all efforts futile.

If there is a lesson I take from all this, it is that we should not disavow our hatreds in a futile effort to make ourselves – to make the world – clean.