There is a likelihood that these will be futile endeavors.
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Denial of the truth has always ultimately proven to be futile.
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Taking on the endangerment finding would probably be futile, he said.
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That effort apparently took place, but also turned out to be futile.
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And that is why Trump's attempts to attract Latinos will be futile.
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But a 2019 impeachment drive wouldn't be important at all — it'd be futile.
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But Alice's sudden burst of maternal instinct and care proves to be futile.
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The judges concluded that the experimental treatment would be "futile," Fenton-Glynn said.
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So before he even opened his eyes he knew it would be futile.
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It's not hard to tower over this perp, though intimidation would be futile.
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Those plans will be futile if federal regulators decide to crack down on Autopilot.
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This is the nature of belief and swimming against this current would be futile.
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Such a filing could be futile since the state would have to approve it.
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"Without taking care of the bigger picture, [raising elephants] would be futile," Angela said.
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But continued authoritarianism in the face of fierce and determined protests will be futile.
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And, some argued, calling for a return to the party's historic values may be futile.
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Maeve's mission might be futile, which has its own poetry, when you think about it.
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The fight for a season eight redo may be futile, but the disappointment is understandable.
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Trump's trip to South Korea to meet with Kim does not have to be futile.
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But if that is all he is going to run on, it will be futile.
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"Since this is a big investment, it would be futile to let it go," he said.
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This isn't the first time Thunberg has suggested that a meeting with Trump would be futile.
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"A primary challenge in 2020, as of today, would be futile for anyone," Mr. Berke said.
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As a result, trying to discern the impact of advertising using actual vote totals would be futile.
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Emergency room doctors have experience sitting families down to advise discontinuing care because it would be futile.
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At least one Wall Street analyst, Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, believes the protest will be futile.
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However, the appeals judges wrote, it would be "futile" to allow him to try to redraft his complaint.
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Senator Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, admitted on Sunday that Democratic opposition could be futile.
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Resistance may be futile, but it is necessary, particularly if there is a chance to persuade anyone still persuadable.
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This turned out to be futile, as we ended up in a corner booth that was completely exposed to fans.
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But trying to silence athletes in Tokyo might be futile when some feel more emboldened than ever to speak out.
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But trying to silence athletes in Tokyo might be futile when some feel more emboldened than ever to speak out.
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As such, many patients, families and doctors avoid facing the inevitable: that at a certain point, additional care will be futile.
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Tariffs against Chinese commodity steel would be futile—because, in a world market, steel from somewhere else would take its place.
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In addition, it would be futile if the aid provided by the U.S. becomes a covert bailout of Puerto Rico creditors.
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Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said it would be "futile" to even consider any deal the president did not support.
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For those opponents to close ranks around those outcasts, then, is likely to be futile at best and counterproductive at worst.
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But without regularly challenging themselves against the likes of Brazil and Germany, rather than Bahrain and Jordan, the effort might be futile.
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But the effort appeared to be futile, as the couple continued to find spiders "left and right," Wright said at the time.
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The judge, Justice Nicholas Francis, said he was keeping an open mind over his previous ruling that further treatment would be futile.
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It will be futile to try and explain that in your own way, you asked them how they were doing several times.
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As the technology changes, he said, any international agreement could be futile; countries will tear it apart in the event of war.
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Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool, England, where he had been getting treatment, concluded it would be futile to treat him further.
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The bottom line: Farmers' efforts to carefully manage forests and curb invasive pests could be futile if the temp continues to rise.
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Thisera said that without tackling poverty, efforts to protect mangroves would be futile, "because people just look at them as free cooking fuel".
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China always opposes trade protectionism and unilateral pressure will be futile, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a daily news briefing in Beijing.
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Such gestures of rebellion may be futile, even ridiculous, and both "Museo" and "Güeros" note the silliness and self-delusions of their characters.
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Dominguez said she had noticed such a variety of N.F.L. jerseys around town that trying to identify the public's top team would be futile.
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"Attempts to build a dialogue with Russia from a position of strength would be futile," he was quoted as saying by TASS news agency.
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Meanwhile, 61 million young people will live 61 million different lives—about which, for now and maybe forever, it would be futile to generalize.
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In 1909, Norman Angell wrote a book called "The Great Illusion" which posited that war between nations would be futile because of their economic interdependence.
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Unfortunately, they believe that appealing to the moderate social and cultural outlook of the working class would compromise the progressive agenda and would be futile.
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It would be futile to try to convey the novel's considerable population, or its plots and subplots, though both population and plots are ingeniously interwoven.
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Legal prosecution proved time and time again to be futile, but I could at least regain my own dignity each time I uttered my truth.
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"China resolutely defends its territorial sovereignty and any attempt to infringe upon China's sovereignty over Diaoyu Islands will be futile," Lu said according to Xinhua.
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Rather than trying to push it away (which tends to be futile, resulting in feeling more overwhelmed and less in control), make room for anxiety.
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Trying to distill trends from the hodgepodge of startups at Demo day can be futile, because the real winners are the ones ahead of the trends.
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As a result, efforts to replace DEPH with DiNP in consumer products, which her earlier research suggested could be taking place, could be futile, she said.
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It would be futile and wrong to attempt to suggest that clubland is an exclusively masculine domain, a mistake that is all too often implicitly made.
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Sayal also said it would be futile to hold talks whose ultimate objective would not be the goal of ending Assad's rule, a view supported by Ankara.
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In his decision, the judge suggested that an appeal would be futile and that granting a temporary legal stay of the ruling could unfairly scuttle the deal.
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Rebels, who are battling President Bashar al-Assad's forces for control of Aleppo, said any peace process would be futile unless the "scorched earth bombing" stopped immediately.
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But those efforts may be futile because the trial — when it eventually starts — will remind Malaysians of the scale of 1MDB's alleged money laundering scandal, Chin added.
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Silent Kingdom draws attention to biodiversity being a finite resource and how we are quickly getting to a tipping point beyond which having hope will be futile.
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But given that the President could plead the Fifth, Mueller could judge that prolonging the investigation for many months with a legal fight could ultimately be futile.
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While the federal government has a say in how it implements the law, the President has repeatedly discovered that getting Congress to change it, can be futile.
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They won't just be futile raging at the debased nature of American politics under Trump, but an efficacious means of actually changing those politics for the better.
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But Mr. Obama may have accommodated his policies to the tectonic shifts in the economy in recent decades because he genuinely believes it can be futile to resist.
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It would also put huge pressure on the overburdened foster-care system—which is only one of the ways Mr Sessions's tough line is likely to be futile.
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" Such an attempt would largely be futile, he said: "If we go for currency war and we all try to depreciate, it's a kind of zero-sum game.
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And Raoul Jack, principal consultant at PFJ Maritime, an adviser to Chinese yards entering the cruise market, says it may be futile to try and stop the shift.
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That said, the summit does not need to be futile -- it could also be the start of a genuine and serious set of arms control and limitation negotiations.
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The power of the moment, the anxiety that it would be futile, the grief that we even had to put her — and ourselves — through this spectacle, was intense.
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" To pursue this strategy, he declared, "would not only be futile but would involve risks to our personnel and to our nation that I am unable to recommend.
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Upon arriving at the ravine that served as a kind of protective moat, the soldiers could see that attempting to cross the heavily guarded bridge would be futile.
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The U.S. is using "carrot-and-stick diplomacy to bully China into unilateral trade concessions," but any move to "defeat China" will be futile, said the People's Daily.
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Many potential switchers at UKIP's conference also said they worried defection would be futile as the Conservatives have no formal structure to give members a direct say on policy.
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The strength of Trump's position has some of his allies warning that any attempt to snatch victory from his grasp would not just be unfair, it would be futile.
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No one aspires to be a whistleblower, and most employees, either out of fear of reprisal or belief that reporting problems will be futile—both legitimate concerns—stay silent.
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But their efforts, which come after both chambers overwhelmingly passed the bill, are almost certain to be futile, and members of both parties have vowed to override the bill.
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Eventually, it dawned on me that while local environmentalists might enjoy isolated victories, our efforts may be futile in the long run — because we're addressing only symptoms, not causes.
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But the Fed has much less dry powder to throw at the market this time around — and Schiff thinks its efforts to mitigate a material downturn will be futile.
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"I find that you are unable to reach a verdict and that further deliberations would be futile and there is no alternative but to declare a mistrial," he said.
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In light of this legal interpretation, it would be futile for Mueller to build a case and demonstrate that the president should be charged with the crime of obstruction.
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Ryan Crocker, whom President Obama picked as ambassador to Afghanistan in 2011, predicted in December that the negotiations will be futile as long as Assad believes he will prevail.
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A cynic might argue that Bolton may be well aware that Trump's calls for dialogue with Iran may be futile and that the hard-line sanctions policy could spark conflict.
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"We are ready to resume cooperation with the Pentagon, but attempts to build a dialogue with Russia from a position of strength would be futile," Shoigu was quoted as saying.
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It's possible that the whole move will be futile because many phones that use biometric data require a PIN to be entered if it hasn't been used in two days.
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In fact, Biogen announced in March that it was halting two large studies of aducanumab for treatment of Alzheimer's disease because data showed the effort was likely to be futile.
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India: The country's efforts to revive the Chandrayaan-2's lost lunar lander, which fell silent last week as it headed toward the moon's surface, may be futile, scientists said.
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Any legal action would also be futile — the horse would have bolted before a court could issue a ruling, and the damage typically happens within hours, not months or years.
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One source dismissed that report as unlikely, based on the fact that OPEC is currently producing about 2 million barrels a day beneath its quota and cutting further would be futile.
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But the argument that gained the upper hand, especially as the debate escalated in the weeks after the walkout, held that those approaches would be futile, according to two people involved.
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Amending the Complaint to add "#BlackLivesMatter" as a Defendant in this matter would be futile because such claims "would be subject to dismissal"; a hashtag is patently incapable of being sued.
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Indeed, one of the chief lessons of the past three years of political journalism is that it can be futile to impute rational intention onto the operation of Trump&aposs mind.
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This included instating strict company rules governing the distribution of pro-union pamphlets, grilling workers about their union activities, and telling employees that union efforts would be "futile", per the ruling.
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Ford's supporters also believe that the fact some Republicans have already made up their minds about Kavanaugh's alleged conduct suggests that her huge emotional investment in taking part would be futile.
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While it's fair to fault Obama for failing to expend his political clout to get the deal passed, he was probably not wrong in his assumptions that the effort would be futile.
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"Our ambition is so big it would be futile for us to think about anything other than to ensure we keep investing to bring the next 100 million customers online," Agarwal said.
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While many Democrats have argued that their party needs to work to regain the support of rural white voters, the results in Virginia, at least, show that those efforts may be futile.
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"It would be futile to mask the word when the language itself, in reference to Haiti and African countries, was so extraordinary," said The A.P.'s vice president for standards, John Daniszewski.
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But knowing that teams are wholly against the latest ideas, they know that efforts to try anything else will now be futile - which could force F1 to remain with the elimination system.
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Any attempt by House Democrats to take things a step further and impeach a Cabinet officer such as Barr would be futile, since Republicans in the Senate would never vote to convict him.
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I wanted to circle back to what you were saying before, about how it's going to be—futile, you said, for us to pin down who's responsible for—what did you call it?
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But Matthew Rose, executive chairman of BNSF, said Wednesday that their efforts will be futile if the passenger and commuter trains that they share tracks with aren't also fully equipped with the technology.
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These approaches have proven to be futile and prolong the suffering of the people of the region; no court or judge in the world will ever be able to resolve this tangled web.
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He said that would be futile because Drillisch, which now runs a 'virtual' mobile network, already has guaranteed access to Telefonica's network under conditions attached to its merger with E-Plus five years ago.
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The Pasadena, California-based appeals court said the investors did not sufficiently allege Toshiba committed a "domestic" violation of federal securities law, but that it would "not be futile" for them to try again.
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The International Monetary Fund said the stimulus would be futile unless paired with measures to improve the functioning of the economy such as dismantling rules that make it costly for businesses to fire workers.
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Medical experts in Britain had agreed that more treatment for Alfie would be futile, but his parents wanted to take him to Rome, where the Vatican's Bambino Gesu hospital had offered to care for him.
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However, educators across the globe aren't taking any chances and are looking into widespread school closings in an attempt to curb the spread of the coronavirus, a method that some experts say may be futile.
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He and other analysts said any Russian tampering with IMS stations would be a serious matter but it was also likely to be futile as other IMS or national stations could also pick up telltale particles.
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"They can try to implement whatever design and management plan they please, but it will be futile in the face of the immense political power wielded by the city's jail guards and police," Dr. Shanahan said.
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Central banks are cutting interest rates at a pace not seen since the crisis in an attempt to stave off the global economic slowdown that's been picking up speed this year, but it may be futile.
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In a commentary on Thursday, the ruling Communist Party's People's Daily said a U.S. attempt to win a "quick and easy" trade war had proven to be futile and the Chinese people must not be fearful.
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Iran's clerical rulers believe that even if it were to do so, as called for by Western leaders, the United States is bent on "regime change" in the Islamic Republic and therefore any concessions would be futile.
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At a phone hearing last Friday in the ACLU case, Judge Sabraw asked whether it would be futile to enjoin family separation if Flores requires kids to be transferred out of unlicensed detention centers in 20 days.
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I don't think that Momofuku needs to change the longstanding name of its famous crack pie, and it would be futile to suggest that we can no longer ever liken slightly naughty things to Very Bad Things.
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Alfie continued to live despite being in a "semi-vegetative state" as a result of a mystery degenerative neurological condition, surprising doctors who said further attempts to treat the boy would be futile, according to the BBC.
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Lt. Craig Cummings of the Texas Department of Public Safety said attempts to drive to safety may be futile anyway, as it took him two and a half hours to drive 250 miles in Houston on Sunday.
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Third, if American forces find it difficult to adjust to the peculiar demands of such wars, then those responsible for formulating basic national security policy should consider the possibility that the wars themselves just might be futile.
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Some of Argentina's largest creditors, who met informally this week according to a Financial Times report, are said to have concluded that negotiations with Macri's government would be futile if Fernandez ultimately comes to power in October.
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Trump is at least publicly making a play for black voters by naming Omarosa Manigault his director of African-American outreach — though the effort will likely be futile, not just because of black voters' overwhelming disapproval of Trump.
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Montenegro said the outcome of the Zervos case would impact not only Trump, but also future presidents, and that it would be futile to allow the Carroll case to proceed before knowing the resolution of the Zervos appeal.
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Daniels also said Columbia could have reasonably decided that searching for the assailant would be "futile" because it knew only his height and hairstyle, and security camera footage had been erased by the time it opened an official investigation.
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"The entire highly experienced U.K. team, all those who provided second opinions and the consultant instructed by the parents all agreed that further treatment would be futile — meaning it would be pointless or of no effective benefit," it adds.
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The top U.S. energy diplomat said on Tuesday that European efforts to keep Russia shipping gas through Ukraine after the opening of Nord Stream 2 across the Baltic Sea would be futile and that Russia could not be trusted.
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Still, while the sound and fury weren't new (even if some of the talking points were), and though they might turn out to be futile, they were a telling indicator of the mood in the county, and possibly beyond.
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Furthermore it would be futile to implement a no-fly zone in a single country or region, as this is a much too limited and simplistic solution that does not meet the complex and decentralized nature of the threat.
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Giving Grace and Frankie the space to be humans may make for a relatable and often thrilling show, but it also leads me to believe that my dream of having it all figured out one day may be futile.
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U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston ruled that certifying the class would be "futile" after the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in October overturned her earlier ruling certifying a class of so-called end-payors of the drug.
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And given the staggering size of the Facebook messaging empire, which globally sprawls to 2.5BN+ humans, user resistance to centralized manipulation via having their buttons pushed to increase cross-platform engagement across Facebook's business may be futile without regulatory intervention.
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Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, political scientists at Duke and Bowdoin and the authors of a new book "Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior," argue that Trump's efforts to win black support will be futile.
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Several Democratic lawmakers and aides argued that with a Republican-controlled Senate and White House, it would be futile to release a budget resolution, a nonbinding document that usually serves as a statement of priorities as opposed to actual policy.
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Protests over multibillion-dollar federal-technology contracts by the vendors that do not win them are common, and at least one Wall Street analyst, the Wedbush Securities analyst Daniel Ives, believes Amazon&aposs protest on this one will be futile.
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But when the problem hits the supply side — that is, when businesses have difficulty making their goods because they cannot secure raw materials, cannot get their products to market or encounter some other impediment — cutting interest rates tends to be futile.
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" But a professional survivalist argues that resistance would be futile in your average hijacked-by-ISIS-backed-pirates scenario: "You're not going to go up against an AK-47-wielding attacker with a rolled-up magazine or a butter knife.
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Lam has vowed to mend social divisions, but the opposition camp said reconciliation would be futile when at least 20 activists, including the leaders of the 2014 protests that paralysed parts of the city for months, have been charged since her selection.
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Victor's efforts to place Fitzpatrick in memory may be futile, but they lead him to recall the central milieu of his boyhood: the Christian Brothers school, one of many in Ireland, where he was educated by a faculty of stern Catholic priests.
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The majority of us did not offer any resistance to the mass imprisonment because we knew it would be futile and even dangerous in the face of the vicious anti-Japanese rhetoric being expressed at the time by politicians and the media.
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When Dr. Hirano traveled to London this month to examine Charlie, about six months after he had first been invited, a series of scans showed that the boy had suffered muscular atrophy, that the damage was irreversible and that treatment would be futile.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Dozens of Central American migrants from about 600 traveling in a "caravan" through Mexico arrived at the border city of Tijuana late on Tuesday despite warnings it would be futile to try to cross to claim asylum in the United States.
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In a complaint filed on Monday in federal court in Houston, the churches said they would like to apply for aid but it would be "futile" because FEMA's public assistance program "categorically" excludes their claims, violating their constitutional right to freely exercise their religion.
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TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) - Dozens of Central American migrants from about 600 traveling in a "caravan" through Mexico arrived at the border city of Tijuana late on Tuesday despite warnings it would be futile to try to cross to claim asylum in the United States.
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In the complaint filed on Monday in federal court in Houston, the Texas churches said they would like to apply for aid but it would be "futile" because FEMA's public assistance program "categorically" excluded their claims, violating their constitutional right to freely exercise their religion.
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Efforts to raise money and awareness for the product, including various Kickstarter campaigns and a 500-mile walk from Tennessee to Washington, D.C., in 2015 to honor veterans (his brother served in Vietnam), have proved to be futile in gaining sufficient funding and interest in the product.
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Trying one last-ditch treatment at an American hospital may be futile, but it's hardly outrageous — and indeed it would be no more outrageous if the Gards had raised money to take their dying son on a pilgrimage to Lourdes or to some New Age site.
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Sanchez, who led Qatar to a spectacular triumph at the Asian Cup earlier this year, said his side would try to prevent Messi getting the ball around the area but recognised it can be futile to try and stop the five-times world player of the year.
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It may be futile to try to restrict the influence of the very wealthy, but we can offset it by opening the system up and making it easier for a candidate to run and be heard, or for people working together to put a new idea on the agenda.
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An Fengshan, a spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs office, told a regular briefing that "any attempts to use this case for political means, to influence or slander the mainland's handling of the case in accordance with the law, or to attack the mainland's political or legal systems will all be futile".
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A little girl turns her face up to her mother; a little boy bends over to peer at something he spots in the grass — his mother reaches out her arms to him in the universal helpless gesture of a parent trying to call back her child from the brink of mischief-making even as she understands her attempts will be futile.
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Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiTrump rails against House Democrats, impeachment inquiry during campaign rally: 'It's all a hoax' House vote on Pelosi drug pricing plan slips to December Pelosi, Schumer ask Trump to urge McConnell to take up background check bill MORE (D-Calif.), had for months pushed back against liberals agitating for impeachment over allegations against Trump in the Mueller report, arguing that pursuing an inquiry without bipartisan support would be futile.
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