Sentence examples for presumed futile from inspiring English sources

Hospice patients must have a terminal disease, likely to cause death within six months, so such treatments were presumed futile.

Given that one of the core goals of hospice programmes in the USA is to avoid unnecessary and futile medical care at the end of life, we presumed that a long hospital stay would constitute a negative and unwanted outcome for most hospice patients.

The main mechanism linking folate deficiency to DNA damage is presumed to be the incorporation of dUMP into the DNA, which is thought to culminate in futile cycles of uracil excision, single-strand breaks, and possibly chromosomal breakage (Blount et al, 1997).

Presumed dead.

I presumed incorrectly.

She is presumed dead.

Tire marks, he presumed.

Watney is abandoned, presumed dead.

His audience was presumed millions.

He is simply presumed innocent.

"They presumed we were married.