Sentence examples for was probably futile from inspiring English sources

Traoré and Michael Lang had been just as culpable for granting Sánchez and Gibbs the space in which to revel but resistance was probably futile.

Honda said that in 2012 it produced 1.76 pounds of landfill waste per car in North America, though direct comparisons with other automakers was probably futile given variations in how waste was measured.

It's probably futile to try to change current Republicans.

Yet trying to get the market to believe the path isn't predetermined is probably futile.

They knew that their labors were probably futile, but hoped that, somehow, the vice president could still prevail.

While BHP had 30 days to change the Canadian industry minister's mind, people briefed on the matter have said that such efforts were probably futile.

We have the two extremes: care that keeps going and going when you would say it is probably futile – and the other end of the spectrum".

Efforts have been made to hunt the killers down, but experts say that attempts to find specific sharks are probably futile.

But it is probably futile for a charity to try to maximize contributions by serving Quarter-Pounders and decorating tables with tulips from the corner deli.

Trying to capture the paradox of writers embracing life with a near-suicidal ferocity without using their language is probably futile, as Walter Salles's disappointing screen adaptation of "On the Road" (2012) suggested.

Internet users have come to expect online media to be free, so trying to charge for Web videos is probably futile, with the exception of live sports or high-profile movies.