I grabbed my brand new flip phone trying to reach my mother, which was futile, the lines were jammed.
And thus the attempt to keep politics out of sport, which is as futile as trying to keep the sweat out of sex, began to falter once more.
At a strategic level, resistance to the new demographic reality is futile, which is why GOP leaders like George Bush, Ken Mehlman and even the Wall Street Journal's editorial page (here and here) have railed against the GOP's approach to immigration.
Social Darwinism said that there is an organic progression in the lives of nations which it is futile to resist.
Jon Dolan of Rolling Stone shared Gill's sentiments with regards to Morrison's rapping and Riley's "Bust Your Windows", also deeming "Don't Stop Believin' "a triumphal moment against which resistance is futile".
As massive swaths of media will be exempt from the new rule, it is, even if enacted, likely to be futile, which is on balance a good thing.
While one reaction to this finding could be to condemn or censor pornography – which is likely to be futile – it may be more useful to see it as a lesson for public health professionals to address the lack of depictions of condom use in pornographic media.
"The imposition of an irrecoverable fine on an entity which is now in liquidation is futile and only prejudices the ability of existing creditors to recover any money.
This is all the beat Cisco, which is kind of futile.
FitFX messaging affects the resistance, which is far from futile, so if you don't spin, you don't move.
