Sentence examples for rather futile from inspiring English sources

I think returning awards is a rather futile gesture".

TEACHING management skills to Saudi women might seem rather futile.

Tomorrow night they have Jonathan Demme's rather futile The Manchurian Candidate (2004) remake and Steven Seagal's dunderheaded Under Siege.

For now, though, he has pronounced himself "satisified" with Mr Bush's rather futile efforts to end the ban.

Many of these are set by the government, in a rather futile bid to control inflation, which last year stood at over 56%.

The bombast of the Spitfire pieces, though, doesn't wear so well, and Walton's attempt to outdo Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance Marches in the prelude now seems rather futile.

Leslie became likeable, her Panglossian energy coming off as noble rather than futile.

Rather than futile culls, smart local councils should change refuse practices, stop fishermen gutting their catch near shore, and, most of all, stop visitors feeding gulls.

On July 12th Mr Wahid ordered General Bimantoro's arrest: rather a futile gesture, since the general is reported to have decamped to Singapore for a convenient medical check-up.

"With the issue of history having become an unavoidable hurdle in Japan's relations with neighbors, the best way for the island nation to proceed is sincere acknowledgement and repentance of its war-time past, rather than futile attempts to reject it," the official Xinhua news agency said in a commentary.

This does not imply that current genome-wide approaches are futile, but rather indicates that appropriate implementation of these studies might help to reduce potential bias and confounding factors.