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Yet the prime minister recognized that such reactionary schemes would prove futile in the long run.

They also began to search for ways to persuade Diem to reform and reorganize his government a search that would prove futile.

The group says any effort to catch and kill a shark after an attack (as outlined in the policy) would prove futile because "the identification of even the species of shark responsible is notoriously difficult and it is unlikely that a targeted fishing effort following the event will catch the individual shark responsible".

But most analysts think any attempt to stamp out the business completely would prove futile.In one way, America's ban on internet gambling has been good for PartyGaming and other offshore gambling sites.

Eight out of 10 Iraqis we spoke to on the streets of Baghdad said such actions would prove futile.

James at first attempted to resist William, but saw that his efforts would prove futile.

By the end of the week, we understood that Silvan had been so completely brain damaged during labor that he could not survive without interventions, and even these would ultimately prove futile.

Third, our patients were selected for ICU admission based largely on self-sufficiency and on the expectation that life-supporting treatment would not prove futile.

And given Ohio's standing in the US as a swing state, he said the idea of waging a legalization effort without a hefty bankroll would have proven futile.

Resolve on America's part would have suggested to that audience that opposing the U.S.A. was bound to prove futile, and relentlessness on America's part would have led that audience to seek any way to avoid America's fury.

But that may prove futile.