Sentence examples for nearly futile from inspiring English sources

Which makes calling any one thing Trump does "a mistake" nearly futile.

Some homeowners' lawyers said they welcomed the plan because thousands of settlement conferences had seemed nearly futile.

Even if supporting reformist politicians is nearly futile, wrote a blogger under the name Inharfha or These Talks, it is "much better that sitting back and watching how our country is being taken back to the ruins of Medieval times".

Hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent routinely on nearly futile efforts in such scenarios.

And maybe at that point I'll want to slip on my old size 12s and gingerly engage the denizens of the smoking area in a fumbled and nearly futile attempt to buy some drugs.

The most futile of my corrective attempts resulted in nearly being waterboarded to death. .

Penny is younger than Smoltz, but he looked nearly as futile in an even sounder beating.

As bad as that team was, it was not nearly as futile as the 1963 squad, which was shut out a record 30 times.

Beyond this, residents here cannot comprehend why, after nearly 20 futile years, the Palestinian Authority (referred to in Gaza as hukoomit Ramallah – "the Ramallah government") is negotiating with Israel in the same manner as before.

Further, the viewer trying dutifully to follow the action may feel his efforts are nearly as futile as Valjean's because most of the actors are so difficult to understand.

The huge diplomatic effort invested in restarting the "six-party" talks on North Korea's nuclear programme, stalled for nearly 18 months now, seems futile.