Sentence examples for make it futile from inspiring English sources

The intense shame about AIDS and the resulting secrecy make it futile to try to determine how many Japanese are infected by H.I.V.

But the timing of Mr. Romney's assault, after Mr. Trump's commanding electoral victories in seven states on Tuesday, may make it futile.

But Grinnell's system, and Taylor's play, made it futile.

The network could fail, or the person with the phone could turn it off, making it futile as a monitor and perhaps causing more concern.

Preferably, by making it futile for them to try to buy our government, this strategy of neutralization will result in both them and me both backing off.

"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".

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

More than a decade ago, Ford spent $2.5 billion to buy the storied brand and then spent billions more in a futile effort to make it a winner.

Is it worth that risk to make a futile symbolic vote in Congress?

So I just want to point out that the system is very quick to make resistance futile; you know, resistance is futile, don't even think about it.