Sentence examples for once futile from inspiring English sources

In the last few years, federal and state judges have allowed patients to sue health plans in situations where such lawsuits were once futile.

Once futile treatments get discontinued according to a formal collegial debate, any intrusive intervention practiced before the subject is declared dead could be seen as conflicting with efforts to deliver terminal comfort care.

As a mission, it once seemed futile when pitted against the solid framework of fact and reason, carefully constructed during the two centuries since the enlightenment.

The chilling effect of "The War Briefing" is to make American efforts in Afghanistan seem at once essential and futile, at least within the next few years.

Those hoping for romantic upheaval will be disappointed, while any policy victories will be gradually refined from pragmatic to futile once they enter into the political process.

In his recent memoir, "Born Round," Frank Bruni, who served as the Times' restaurant reviewer from 2004 until earlier this year, describes his efforts at camouflage — using aliases, wearing a wig and fake mustache — which were mostly futile once the dust-jacket photograph from one of his early books was posted on the Internet.

Guillermo Francella plays the blank-eyed clan capo and paterfamilias Arquímedes Puccio, who controls his family with his mesmeric and lizardly gaze – especially favourite son Alex Peter Lanzanii) – and somehow believes that his activities are licensed by the still potent, unseen military forces who will surely soon return in triumph once Argentina's futile experiment with democracy is over.

72% of the ICUs' staff who was surveyed for this project affirmed to have practiced, at least once, dysthanasia and/or futile care.

72% admitted to have practiced, at least once, dysthanasia and/or futile care, without a significant difference between in physicians (70%) and nurses (76.6%).

A futile conflict once more spawned films indicting the horrors of war.

This review brings into focus some of those ncRNAs that were once thought to be futile and not expressed in the heart with an emphasis on the use of meta-data.