Sentence examples for virtually futile from inspiring English sources

The Baby Doe law requires states receiving federal money for child abuse programs to develop procedures to report medical neglect, which the law defines as withholding treatment unless a baby is irreversibly comatose or the treatment is "virtually futile" in terms of survival.

For decades, draft resistance was both futile and virtually unknown in South Korea.

The study may stop early either because the experimental treatment appears effective (and highly statistically significant) or because it appears ineffective and futile (with virtually no chance of reaching statistical significance by the end of the study).

Their futile pseudo-creative sweat drips upon virtually every dopey line, every derivative note.

Virtually destitute, they embarked on a series of futile peregrinations, by train and wagon, across the Midwest, with a wretched interlude on the Florida Panhandle.

But a search for public servants near City Hall on Monday — amid a shutdown of virtually all of New York's mass transit network — proved somewhat futile.

Yet 64% of their budget -- virtually the same as under the Bush administration and its predecessors -- focuses on largely futile interdiction efforts as well as arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating extraordinary numbers of people.

An association of Bushwick parents, virtually all of them Hispanic immigrants, had gone as far as suing in State Supreme Court in a futile attempt to reform the bilingual program in local schools.

It is totally futile.

Resistance may be futile.

Futile rage helps nobody.