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31 Futile pastime: memorising the Latin names of 150 fish species when they've never even owned a goldfish.

32 Until attitudes at work are changed, attempts to improve performance are likely to prove futile.

33 Like many untalented people, he was full of futile energy.

34 The demonstrators denounced the economic summit as a futile and fruitless exercise.

35 People will rightly see this as money badly raised and badly spent, futile frittering of fortunes to virtually zero electoral effect.

36 They showed no qualms in spending ￡3 billion in a futile attempt to prop up the Pound.

37 Or, in keeping with theme week, the hapless Wile E.. Coyote in futile pursuit of the Roadrunner.

38 Resisting change is as futile as resisting weather, and change is our weather now.

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39 A horrible series of futile uprisings against impossible odds and always ending in butchery and defeat for the rebels.

40 But a sense of apathy arises from the feeling that life is pointless and futile.

41 Admiral Nagumo received word of his new assignment as he headed back from the futile sortie toward the Marshalls.

42 Even had Schumacher issued the command to stop, it would have been futile.

43 There is real hope, probably futile, that the second hike to 17.5 percent will somehow be wished away.

44 It was a foretaste of the wages-prices spiral and the increasingly futile chase after higher incomes.

45 While change without evaluation is dangerous evaluation without at least the possibility of change is futile.

46 The point to recognize is, of course, that it is futile to waste time classifying studies into neat little boxes.

47 It was, instead, a futile and costly detour in making the transition from a feudalistic system to a market economy.

48 Demonstrators condemned the summit as a futile and fruitless exercise.

49 Policy strategies which attack the social and economic determinants of ill-health are dismissed as futile attempts at social engineering.

50 I was not ready to become the care-taker of another living thing which would, like me, eventually turn futile.

51 But surely the activity of a postman in such a void would be utterly futile and valueless.

52 Minutes later a team of paramedics began a futile effort to revive the boy.

53 The Bishop condemned what he called "this futile and tragic loss of life".

54 It would be futile now to think of trying to persuade Jake to rethink his intended marriage to Janice.

55 Sundays he slept even later than usual, in a futile effort to avoid the day.

56 The males, whom the women abuse from birth, spend their lives in a futile pursuit of their masculinity.

57 At least that's what I gather from watching Art Jacobson's futile but valiant efforts to build community on the Internet.

58 It was futile to try to apply logic from the outside here.

59 She would not even bother to argue the rights and wrongs of what had occurred since it would be futile.

60 But attempts to galvanize Chiang into action were largely futile.