The propensity to refer to "everything", even in cases with specific known goals, might inadvertently promote futile attempts to prolong life and deflect attention away from patients' pain and suffering.
Equality demands and deserves the support and engagement of men, which is why I find women-only networking events to promote women rather futile.
However, they are used, promoting a grueling and futile quest for quantity of publications, at the expense of quality, reflected in the infamous "publish or perish" catchphrase.
Projects like BSF are futile because they promote specific values, rather than overall well-being.
Allowing patients to express their preferences, has the potential to reduce the volume of futile treatments, thus promoting financial sustainability of our health care systems while addressing the ethical principle of distributive justice [ 33].
The App Store review team approved the iPad app a week ago — AppGratis was about to promote its iPad launch, but it's now futile.
Political analysts propose recipes in order to end the supposed "cold war" between Iran and Saudi Arabia, but as long as the political establishment in Saudi Arabia promotes this narrow vision, these propositions are naïve at the best and futile at worst.
If one's real motive is to promote free trade and outsourcing then an attack on democracy may be not only futile; it may be... dare I say it?.
Perhaps I am wrong and it is nothing more than the 'opiate of the people', but if we want to promote rational and scientific thinking then trying to wage war on God is both pointless and futile.
Creating a new brand isn't necessarily a crime, but it seems futile to do so if you're not going to spend any money to promote it, and CondéNet marketing has been just about nil.
