Sentence examples for useless efforts from inspiring English sources

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After the Duke's unsuccessful attempt to seize Antwerp, Bodin wrote to his brother-in-law, Nicolaus Trouilliart, on January 22 , 1583and explained his useless efforts to dissuade the duke from such an undertaking.

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It was a characteristic Manet, for one, would hold against him: "So much useless effort, so much wasted space … Not a shadow of an emotion".

First is that 5 Hz is below the human range of hearing, making it a sort of useless effort.

Accordingly in the span of two generations that which cost millions of lives and centuries of useless effort, namely, the elimination of Germanism and its carriers, will have been an accomplished fact.

You start to pull your collar up over your nose in a useless effort to protect yourself, as your face burns and your lungs constrict, and desperately, you squint, stumbling forward, crying, aching, and straining for breath.

Likewise, trying to convince GM or Microsoft to abandon stock options or to institute a nominating system that allows shareholders to nominate and elect directors from a slate larger than the number to be elected will prove to be an equally useless effort.

This has been achieved despite what many doomsayers' warned would be a bloody and useless convergence effort.

In Ghana 30% of imports of allegedly secondhand products were useless, despite EU efforts calling for electronic goods to have some reusable value.

Until the Libya campaign, Western force planners assumed that in any coalition operation certain military tasks would be undertaken largely by U.S. forces in order to avoid useless duplication of efforts.

The squadrons of gulls feasting in our wake show how useless the rescue efforts were: only the dogfish, shark-like things as long as a forearm, are escaping the stabbing yellow beaks.

Dirty hair will make your best efforts useless.

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