Sentence examples for useless in the face of from inspiring English sources

Wooden gunboats were useless in the face of the Monitor's firepower.

That reason is useless in the face of emotion — and, perhaps unintentionally, that metaphor may be as well?

Find a way to be invited into the computers of your enemy's weapons and military systems and you can render them useless in the face of an attack.

"Most of us were feeling pretty useless in the face of what had taken place there; finding a way to be involved was incredibly fulfilling.

The UN is looking as useless in the face of genocide as the League Of Nations was when confronted with Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia.

Traditional defensive measures, such as fire breaks, are useless in the face of blazes that can easily vault six- and eight-lane interstate highways, as they did in northern San Diego County a few days ago.

In particular, in contrast to some previous work, our design gives users a chance to set a session key according to users' will, and does not require a mobile user to compute useless hash key chains in the face of HLR-online authentication failures or run the initial authentication protocol before HLR-offline authentication.

The subconscious swap of "touch in" for "check in" evoked the laying on of hands — an antiquated, unbillable and, in the face of cancer, useless gesture, but quite possibly not a worthless one.

Years later he would write articles for a German magazine, Medicine and Law, appearing to condone some doctors in concentration camps because they advanced medical knowledge in the face of otherwise useless destruction.

There's actually an odd correlation between these ideas: poetry is either inadequate, even immoral, in the face of human suffering, or it's unprofitable, hence useless.

Signed by the prince, Coventry and Williams, the note advised him that "you must clearly understand that in the face of the overwhelming evidence against you, it is useless to attempt to deny the accusations".