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In the end the wait was futile as I was not granted permission to see my client at least not on this trip.

To try to solve the world's problem without solving your individual problem is futile, utterly empty, because you and I make up the world.

It would therefore be futile to attempt to see or photograph the interference pattern resulting from two light bulbs.

Hope is not the futile wait for wishes to be fulfilled. Guide the creation of your destiny but be aware that it won't be as you dreamed.

English resistance was futile as he took control of England and his reign would begin.

Trying to determine which one is "better" is entirely subjective, and ultimately futile.

Mr Blair, a Catholic convert, said faith was a force for good and it was "futile" to attempt to drive it out.

Indeed, it's as futile as trying to counter a daily Big Mac diet and a pack-a-day smoking habit with a daily jog, scientists say.

The curse inflicted upon the citizens was that of futile hope, as each knew in their hearts that these places were far beyond their reach.

Trying to impose hard and fast limits on reserve accumulation would be both futile and undesirable.

Better to explain carefully why high inflation is likely to prove temporary than to indulge in "futile gestures" , he said.

Trying to inject reason and evidence into this sort of debate is usually futile, but I do wish to report some good news.

Life this play, makes every effort the film to be clear, slightly obviously is not instead solid, also is only the futile effort.

on this happy playmates to the governance of a real estate market, It was not making a futile effort?

So far in his career, his quest for a victory had been futile and many people claimed that he was a fraud.

Get out of the bed, resistance is futile. Wake up and assimilated the day.

After several futile attempts to leave the island, Robinson settles himself down to a hard and lonely life.

It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile sufferings.

We talked to him in a futile attempt to change his mind.

If you develop good policies, will not be able to put in place, on enterprises is futile to.

The Israelis, for instance, could put an end to a hundred years of futile hostilities by buying somewhere for the Palestinians.

He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile.

They had such different ides that discussing their difference would have been a futile effort.

Trying to draw level with Asia in chip making would be futile.

As a whole our efforts did not prove to be futile.

You think about it, the high walls of vegetables do not futile?

This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile.

Death steps in in the end and stops him before he has grown tired of this futile pursuit of that complete felicity which always escapes him.

Ever since then, periodic efforts to crack down on excessive alcohol consumption among young scholars have been largely futile.

And they've said, and I quote again, any attempt to deny this is as futile as covering the rotting carcass of an elephant with a goat hide.

It would be hard, and probably futile, to advertise underwear in any other way.

Essentially, the whole world lives at the very heart of suffering. So it is futile to insult or to mistreat others.

Agile development without a clear vision of the goals and objectives of the company is futile.

Soon after, the Jovians arrived on the scene and the Amarrians made a futile attempt to subjugate them, resulting in a humiliating defeat.

"Without a concerted global effort to restore soil fertility, genetic modification would be futile, " its president, Hans Herren, says.

But not this dream as traction, we do more efforts are futile, because we would be very much at a loss, I do not know the direction.

Perhaps, I have told him that "I will wait for you" , he does not remember. I really do not want to, everything is futile.

Your efforts in trying to reach a logical solution in matters are offer futile.

To those who look for a resolution to come out of conflict the war has long seemed futile.

The rise of China and India is inevitable and it would be a futile exercise on the part of either to try to contain the other.

Instead of all the futile bleating, what was needed was a co-ordinated appreciation of the the currencies of the emerging economies.

You may have all the moves but if you are trying to tempt the wrong person it will be futile.

And we give ourselves a week or so to talk about New Year's resolutions-our yearly futile stab at behavior change.

a futile attempt to force modernity upon the corrupt rulers of an unwilling country.

Japan's failed attempt to spend itself out of recession in the 1990s and the U. S. 's futile stimulus of last year underscore the point.

If thinking were no more than an abstract Identity, we could not but own it to be a most futile and tedious business.

All his attempts to unlock the door were futile , because he use the wrong key .

Again, fair enough; and it would be futile for the inquiry to try to prove outright lying in Mr Blair's statements about WMD.

Frankly, everyone is afraid of failure, afraid of facing up to the problems, but again, escaping is futile.

It jumped up to the exhaustion of full enough of those grapes, but they are futile, the grape is too high.

Death has become a taboo subject, a shameful secret we ignore, hoping with futile foolishness that it won't come close to us.

And we're trying to tell them it's not futile: we can change the survival rates by doing some commonsensical things.

It would be a futile act, I'm sorry I cannot help.

The Danish army decided it was futile to resist the German army (perhaps they were right).

That futile young man does nothing but waste money.

In one of his first moves, he decided it was futile to keep Oldsmobile.

Experiments conducted to try to induce a preference for capsaicin in rats, using traditional reinforcement techniques, proved futile.

The whole corporate superstructure of our economy can be made "too big to fail, " beyond retrospective regrets or futile tinkering.

all his attempts to unlock the door were futile, because he was using the wrong key.

Overlapping of the two roles may be unavoidable, but there should be no futile second-guessing of each other's motives and deeds.

But a thoroughgoing effort to tame finance would be futile and could come at a high cost.

The attempts of other companies to emulate multitouch are either funny or sad, depending on your temperament, but they are always futile.

So much of what we do today is frivolous and futile and soon forgotten. So much of what we hope to do tomorrow never happens.

After 19 years of futile negotiations, the elders installed a door in the wall around their land on April 25, vowing to build new homes.

Without China's active participation, any attempts to immunise Afghanistan against terrorism would be futile.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Palestinians' plan to seek statehood recognition at the United Nations is "futile. "

S. mining disaster since 1984, and rescuers on Tuesday began a dangerous and possibly futile attempt to rescue four others still missing.

If you stick to your wrong outlook and would not change it, whatever efforts you make are futile.

and to approach me to fulfill their desires would also be absolutely futile.

My favorite aspect of this episode as a scientist is the idea that even science is futile in the absence of faith and boundless love.

He patted her reassuringly upon the shoulder, but Carrie felt how really futile had been her hopes.

A few futile efforts by demonstrators have been quickly suppressed by Chinese police.

Any group or individual can declare their own nation, but without recognition from other states, this can be a futile gesture.

If she doesn't love you , however much you do for her, it makes a futile effort.

It is futile to practice meditation if your mind is always involved in either dullness or agitation.

The 'Pointless answering' answers the question of 'futile asking', from which we know that they are laymen.

In most inner cities it is futile to try and drive anywhere so you might as well use public transport to get around.

Desmond Lachman of the American Enterprise Institute foresees a futile downward economic spiral.

He made a futile exercise.

That type of protection was fundamental to this type of work. It would be futile to work otherwise.

When he ceased, all I found was a futile whisper: "So you swam for our light? "

I felt that it called for an 'epic response', a 'beau geste' at once futile and heroic, absurd and urgent.

Resistance, if not exactly futile, is harder than it used to be.

Everything seems futile here except the sun, our kisses, and the wild scents of the earth.

Soames explained that any early revelation of the manager's dishonesty would have been futile.

If you discern that it's futile to argue, or if your pride has been hurt, ask God for grace to say nothing.

He'd followed her over two thousand miles. All the efforts to cover her tracks had been futile.

The characteristic, but futile, response is to move the regulatory deckchairs on the deck of the Titanic.

It was futile to entertain such a question.

Perhaps she was not lonely, perhaps she is very happy, maybe I just futile to pay, but I do not regret it.

They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

So far Mr Ellison shows no sign of having learned any lessons from Mr Welch's futile stubbornness.

Its been 31 years, since the law was introduced, yet the nation shows no scruples in abiding by the most futile system.

Striving to resist the inturning of the season can be an exhausting and sometimes futile undertaking.

Your mind knows that continuing to work hard is likely to be futile and won't solve the real problem of incongruence .

Resistance is not futile, but it will delay your progress to the very shores of The Paradise Isle.

Any unrealistic objective is not worth pursuing sedulously since it is doomed to a futile project.

But while attacks on open source still make Kapor's blood boil, he suggests that the bigger picture indicates that resistance is futile.

Prophets of a sceptical bent say all this is futile because they knew all along the single currency was doomed.

a futile attempt to escape responsibility.

"It is futile to expect a hungry and squalid population to be anything but violent and gross" (Thomas H. Huxley).

So futile their attempt to comfort our fear of the night.

That's exactly why legislating concentration seems like a futile approach.

In the face of Chinese competition, efforts to stimulate local manufacturing seem futile.

They tried to stage a rearguard action to defend Vienna, but it was futile.

Many CIOs recognise that trying to stamp out the use of personal gadgets at work is not only futile but also risky.

While the United States wants to thus get rid of high oil prices, weakening the influence of the Middle East, probably futile.

It is futile to attempt to convince him that certain things are simply undoable.

Let them be happy and prosper, and let me be foolishly futile.

The Taliban issued a statement mocking the conference as futile and predicted "final defeat" for the "invaders" .

It is futile andexhausting for me to shape my life to meet anyone else's standards.

The economic clauses of the treaty were malignant and silly to an extent that made them obviously futile.

To tell the truth, it is a futile question.

Or are you telling us the odd surge up the wing then making a futile challenge will turn you into a quite quintessential player?

Wash away the time really to clear a person's life is only futile, but it is too late.

Yet exhortations by regulators and bankers' associations to limit interest on interbank deposits were futile.

The forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife.

For this particular reason, the futile love affair, divorce and painful separation happen in this society.

But I want to stress that without all parties' support, it is futile for China to do all that.

Without microscopes and other modern equipment, attempts made to teach science were futile.

Paclobutrazol can retard seedling futile growth more strongly under normal density than under high density.

Don't get me wrong, we are applauded for the style of our play, but unless it wins us games, leagues and trophies, then it is futile.

On the blackboard the futile abracadabra which the future citizens of the republic would have to spend their lives forgetting.

Perhaps, given Moscow's deep-seated love of empire, the effort would have been futile.

Only the improvement of the target, and contrary to the objective rule, will be futile.

Any attempt to distort or even deny resolution2758( XXVI) is futile.

I still can picture him dribbling around and past Kobe Bryant and the other Lakers who were futile in their attempts to contain him.

Yet he knew it was futile. He had searched for hours, to no avail.

They are a futile attempt to keep from missing out.

Whenever you catch yourself conducting a useless, futile conversation with yourself, stop it.

Issues of economic ethics beset the fields of futile treatment, pre-death state, and hemodialysis therapy.

There is another impediment to the hands in the hands of the natural, no one can read, so all can only be futile, that is, the more grief.

Independence without infrastructure is futile.

However, always can't let the old friend make a futile trip.

Otherwise, the debate we are having about stimulus versus austerity risks being as futile as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

With me through the years, with low mood I started studying, but I know the diligence is futile, learning to be happy to learn, can I?

If your first attempt at achieving your goals seems futile, should you move on and do something else? Absolutely not!

The government in Canberra , however, thinks lawsuits will be futile, as the sanctuary is not recognized by other nations.

The maintenance of the traditional technology and methods is futile.

Then remorse it is futile, not to forget the memory of good.

The subversion attempts proved predictably futile ?

They are paralyzed. You say "nuclear" to them, and they're thinking, "Oh my God, we're all gone. What's the point? It's futile. "

His ambitions had dissolved amid repeated and futile efforts to pass his physical-training test.

But the high frequency at which contamination cases have happened makes this moral appeal feeble and futile.

Such gestures, as Anthony Appiah has observed, are futile and dangerous because of their further inscription of new and bizarre stereotypes.

It is significant to discuss the medical relations, the allocation of resources and the moral values in the futile treatment on uremia.

Chinese workers are above all pragmatic, and the prospect of joining a large-scale demonstration seems risky and futile to most.

In this and other cases documented by Human Rights Watch, the families' attempts to inquire about their relatives proved futile.

These missing is helpless, regret is irreparable, the regret is therefore futile.

At first the border guards tried to check passports, but they quickly realized it was futile.

and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile. "

The subversion attempt proved predictably futile.

Still less do they associate the country with chaos and backwardness, or with futile wartime heroics.

By contrast, fertiliser subsidies encourage futile over-use of nitrogen in parts of China.

Religion is a primary human need, and denying this fact is futile and counter-productive.

The Socialists may be condemned to another period of futile introspection.

Several futile attempts to terrorize the Poseidons were attempted by the Aryans, and each was quelled.

The north's campaign there, however, appears increasingly futile.

and, without bhakti, all penances , austerities, and rites are futile.

And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins.

harmful raw eggs, boiling off the same old futile.

The high-minded attacks on corruption in Muslim states from London and Washington is futile.

He bristled at Pollan's statement that turning the "ecological clock to 1492 is a fool's errand, futile and pointless to boot. "

Indeed, the past decade of futile meetings with them has demonstrated clearly that their vengeful and unrepentant stance remains rigid.

New desires then lead us on to further futile struggle and the cycle repeats itself.

But as Switzerland found this year, a single government's efforts to weaken its currency can prove futile.

Therefore any attempt at a universal tool set also proves futile.

What Washington must appreciate is that isolating Iran, a central bridge between the Near East and Central Asia, is futile.

Your efforts turned out futile due to incorrect methods.

She would walk in futile circles, sapping her strength while going nowhere.

I see no contradiction in this. Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld.

Futile and useful treatments have intimate connection, for they are conflicted and united.

Pavel Nedved has told Juventus it is futile to keep hold of want-away striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic against his will.

The boundaries of your futile mind.

All his attempts to unlock the car were futile, because he was using the wrong key.

He was overwhelmed by the rampant and futile use of bagua mirrors, magical flutes, incense and rituals.

Opinions differ as to the reasons why he became the futile laborer of the underworld.

Easily distracted by futile "get rich quick" schemes, they actually sent ship loads of mica and yellow ore back to England in 1607 and 1608.

And need I point out what a violent and futile effort it is to use force in the matters of morality and religion?

Brothers, let us squander our morning in futile songs.

The spring has done its flowering and taken leave. And now with the burden of faded futile flowers I wait and linger.

Not all counter drug policies are futile or perverse in their outcomes.

China tried futile to obtain a withdrawal of the troops.

So futile have the talks become that the unions have shifted tack.

Love is the foundation of life for without it, every other thing is futile.

It knows the attempt would be futile.

They spent all their creative resources on futile projects.

Why not abandon this futile work and begin anew without repeating the same wasteful mistake?

This would be ruinous to trade and, in the end, futile: new low-tax centres would emerge as soon as old ones were squashed.

but building higher walls is likely to prove futile.

spent all their creative resources on futile projects.

Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile---Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge.

America's embargo remains as futile and counter-productive as ever.

They will always prove futile for "it is not in man that walked to direct his steps" (Jeremiah 10: 23).

Do yourself a favor: surrender. Your resistance is futile.

They will not only be futile in moving China, but will also risk delaying or even blocking multilateral co-operation.

But fighting the price checkers is a futile endeavor.

but my tongue will not utter the bitter, futile words that rise to my lips, and they fall back into my heart like unshed tears.

Being or having no beneficial use; futile or ineffective.

As both boys slipped away, words see-med futile, all John and Cheryl could do was hold each other tight.

History teaches that it is futile to seek any set of rules that could work in the sense described.

All searches in the neighbourhood proved futile.

Ultimately, all attempts to deny the Rape of Nanking are futile.

When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.

There is no point in continuing this futile fight!

If you can't agree on what the gospel is, then scaling down theology and scaling up mission is futile.

he may sit up , walk , even talk , but all attempts to wake him are futile.

The lesson from Kurdistan and from Palestine, is that independence alone, without infrastructure, is futile.

It was a futile effort.

Pace considers attempts at timing futile.

And now with the burden of faded futile flowers I wait and linger.

Without these, empty cavity has a lofty ambition is futile.

For many years, the search for the missing children was largely futile.

And let our Republicanism, so focused and so dedicated, not be made fuzzy and futile by unthinking and stupid labels.

The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.

The attempts to change his mind were futile; he was too set in his ways.

Amid the turmoil, it might seem futile to sketch out the future banking landscape.

What comes after death is futile, and what a long succession of days for whoever knows how to be alive!

More and more concerns have been shown to the discussion of futile or useful treatments provided through modern medicine.

Please don't waste time by asking such futile questions.

It is futile because the truth will out and dangerous because secrecy delays the necessary remedial action.

Total eradication is impossible, but that doesn't mean fighting back is futile.

Defending intellectual honesty is difficult anywhere in the age of Photoshop and copy-paste, but in China it can feel downright futile.

It was futile, still they fought.

We do not fight global warming because it is futile to do so.

They believe fervently that the old way is not only wrong, it's futile. And it's time to start doing it right.

The aggression is a futile effort to get others to sympathize with their hurt.

Talking to North Korea, with or without the "help" of China, has been futile.

But the government's approach, say campaigners, signals that resistance will often be futile.

It's not just futile, it's physically impossible.

Only furnishing plans is fruitless and futile in order that he doesn't frown or get furious.

the futile years after her artistic peak.

Lawrence is told that any idea of rescue is futile and, in any event, Gasim's death is "written" .

The Lord knows the thoughts of man; he knows that they are futile.

All traditonal learning methods are futile.

A futile effort, too: Beijing won the games, and some would say the argument.

Don't waste time by asking futile questions.

Countless miss humid mood in my pickiness Tender Affection high, perhaps I Xijizhao only futile, futile wait for.

Efforts to convince him were futile.

Then he photographs the results and sells the images. How futile can you get?

Their efforts to revive him were futile.

The media debate in Britain has focused on financial aspects of the situation, not on the usually futile use of heroic measures.

Counseling seemed futile to him.

He likes according to his interest making futile effort for the room in trivial matters.

Most economic policy is futile.

It is futile to bother today about the way in which this problem will be solved.

James and Wade are impossible to slow in the open floor, and when they're hitting 3-pointers resistance is futile.

Touch less happy, efforts will be futile.

The stronger the will, the more futile the task.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.