Sentence examples for on futile from inspiring English sources
Kerry should not underestimate the creative abilities of both sides to waste time on futile discussions, and must engage them on the essential issues.
In 2009 dollars, Dr. Gordon calculated, that amounts to $70 billion a year, much of it spent on futile care that prolongs suffering.
An alternative strategy would be for Democrats to unilaterally declare victory in the culture war — allowing Republicans to waste time on futile rear guard actions — and to shift the political agenda to the jobs crisis.
Addressing a crowd of 50,000 young German boys and girls who help in their respective churches as altar servers, he warned them that "many young people waste too many hours on futile things".
If it had no effect, it'd just be a waste of money (which in itself is a poor advert for Stonewall: why give to an organisation that seems to throw cash away on futile campaigns?).
Soon, you start hearing meadowlarks everywhere – in piano arpeggios, in the warbling solo Steve Moore plays on Futile Devices, fluttering a small portable keyboard back and forth across a microphone.
He didn't let up, not even after Escudé pulled a muscle after a tumble on one futile passing shot in the second set.
The U.S. Congress has refused to hold any serious debate to authorize America's on-going futile wars in the Greater Middle East.
The Saudis are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on their futile war on Yemen.
President Karzai made one last, futile attempt on Saturday night to persuade Qayum Karzai to stay out of the race, according to advisers to the president.
He was compelled to leave for India on 16 January on a futile, week-long scheduled trade mission.
