It's extremely difficult — perhaps futile — to time the market.
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Add Oreos, and the idea of resistance is practically futile.
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But in the end, it's almost always expensive and futile.
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But his desire to transform himself is, of course, futile.
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This is their futile attempt to pacify and silence us.
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Any ransom payment that victims tried to make was futile.
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Unfortunately, trying to help someone with MD is often futile.
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Meanwhile, Massad has made futile efforts to win his release.
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Taking a swing at the king was never so futile.
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It seemed so pointless, she said, so futile and sad.
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Resistance was futile, it turned out, as Elemental had argued.
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"Leukoenceph — it's hard," Cornyn says, before several more futile endeavors.
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The law also makes an exception for "medically futile" pregnancies.
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It can seem like a futile gesture in some ways.
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That said, it's not futile to keep studying seasonality effects.
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You cannot see the future, that is a futile activity.
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Talking about gun control in the US often seems futile.
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It seemed so futile, in the greater scheme of things.
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Attempts to figure out the daily schedule were largely futile.
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Unfortunately, our efforts to reverse this dangerous trend proved futile.
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Attempts to reach them by mobile phone have been futile.
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Mr. Schumer said such an approach would have been futile.
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Despite this enormous energy, their actions can often feel futile.
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The team might not be merely bad, but historically futile.
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And the mood is despair and the journey is futile.
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There is a likelihood that these will be futile endeavors.
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Will an impenetrable US / Russia Cyber Unit make these attacks futile?
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But that was all the offense the futile Phillies could muster.
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The Bulgarian occasionally threatened with submission attempts, but those were futile.
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Sasha wants to run from her powers, but that is futile.
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Not only does that seem futile, but frankly, it's no fun.
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If this sounds like a futile effort, Wolfe says, think again.
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All this is not to say that privacy regulation is futile.
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Unfortunately, finding partisan agreement to tackle the causes has proven futile.
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Purchasing enough food has proven futile for many working class Venezuelans.
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Futile but not hopeless — that's a nice way of putting it.
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Maaloul played down the significance of several futile England penalty claims.
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Until then, more facts and periodic outbursts of outrage are futile.
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Does your work feel futile, often not reaching people in China?
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Nobody ever went to HR because it would have been futile.
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Trying to reconcile the two can prove a pretty futile exercise.
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Instead, they are about the pursuit, futile or not, of harmony.
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It is an understandable approach but also, ultimately, a futile one.
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But that goal, pursued by Democratic and Republican administrations, proved futile.
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The sanctions effort is not only futile, it's counterproductive and dangerous.
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The director Michael Showalter oversells the goods, but resistance is futile.
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Denial of the truth has always ultimately proven to be futile.
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Trying to improve on the Obama version of deterrence is futile.
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Washington's moves to revive the futile "war on drugs" are unwelcome.
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Perhaps pitting these two good songs against each other is futile.
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Resistance isn't futile, but it needs to be more carefully considered.
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I flailed my legs in a futile attempt to gain momentum.
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The first concerns France's futile attempt to keep its Indochinese colonies.
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Many scientists think containment — even if perfectly executed — is ultimately futile.
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The sweet talk attempted by Mr. Macron has proved equally futile.
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Wishing one could have dissuaded the suicide is understandable, but futile.
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Taking on the endangerment finding would probably be futile, he said.
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"As it turned out, the attempt was futile," Mr. Farndale said.
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Internally, it indicates to Assad's own people that resistance is futile.
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To attempt to clone such things or pinpoint their characteristics is futile.
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"Efforts to reinvent downtown Middletown always struck me as futile," he wrote.
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Well, the process is the point, and attachment to results is futile.
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They'll often continue to prescribe treatment, even if it's futile, Stuart said.
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The march of the lab coats seemed a noble but futile gesture.
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Hamas' effort to lift Gaza out of grinding poverty have proven futile.
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And with nearly unbridled online access these days, it's a futile effort.
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There's nothing futile about putting your lifestyle choices where your politics are.
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Can an e-petition ever be anything other than a futile protest?
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He set his hands on the frame to reinforce his futile efforts.
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Nothing means anything, love is futile, everything is over, let's make out.
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We both knew it was probably futile, but I had to try.
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I realize that fact-checking Donald Trump is a pretty futile effort.
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Trump's preparationIt's futile trying to predict what Trump will say to Putin.
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It's a totally futile effort, most likely, but here's what's really weird.
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It seems almost futile to expect a fractious Congress to accomplish much.
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Yet by design, they're kept from realizing their futile fate as playthings.
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They seemed futile, they said — more broken people, describing more senseless deaths.
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But this message unintentionally suggested that it was futile to seek treatment.
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Here's Wesley Morris on why calls for a "national conversation" are futile.
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Trying to switch from anxiety to calm is often a futile mission.
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In the novel, Jordan had begun to see the cause as futile.
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That effort apparently took place, but also turned out to be futile.
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As disciplined, tough, and athletic as Boston was, resistance was ultimately futile.
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Maybe it was cruel, this futile attempt to cling to our pastime.
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That almost assuredly won't happen, but the machinations were not futile, either.
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I think to pursue the old man would be a futile exercise.
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The C.I.A.'s "daring amateurs" were often diverted into futile paramilitary adventures.
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He called the Geidam attack "futile" and said there were no casualties.
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Many people have hesitated to delete Facebook because doing so felt futile.
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My desire for all of us to stay the same was futile.
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The dive from Keylor Navas was futile, as he had no chance.
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It's a futile effort because before I know it, I'm fast sleep.
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International community must state it rejects such futile attempts to consolidate occupation.
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It is not just an exercise in futile nostalgia to bemoan that.
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Resistance is futile, government is the deep state, expertise is dangerous elitism.
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It's not that I've ever thought of marching as futile or otherwise.
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And that is why Trump's attempts to attract Latinos will be futile.
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Attempts to reach the sender of the mysterious email have been futile.
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But simply targeting Maduro and his regime within Venezuela has proved futile.
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Looking for universal affirmation from strangers is a futile, full-time job.
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Hopes that Europe might help Iran circumvent the sanctions have proved futile.
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Some try to raise money, but that can be depressing and futile.
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Naturally, her gift makes marital spats over who said what pretty futile.
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That's why this split seemed both so inevitable but also so futile.
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"I wasn't going to waste time on a futile struggle," Bolton wrote.
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I imagine you will resist, but -- JAY CLAYTON: Resistance is futile, right?
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Similarly, it is mostly futile to try talking over a protest chant.
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Perhaps their lament is futile—the world is inexorably becoming Thomas Friedman's.
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But resistance to digital was futile back then, as it is now.
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Oh God, your futile aspirations, your petty jealousies, your stupid, selfish dreams.
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Breaking up the tech giants is a satisfying war cry—but probably futile.
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Some lessons take a long and seemingly futile amount of time to learn.
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But a 2019 impeachment drive wouldn't be important at all — it'd be futile.
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Finger-pointing, name-calling and vilifying controversial speakers and their supporters is futile.
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Resistance was futile: "It was like watching a nice fantasyland," he told me.
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Both knew taking him to a hospital was futile — Ankit's blood was everywhere.
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Attempts to lure Barcelona's Lionel Messi in the opposite direction have proved futile.
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Speculating about the cause of the crash is futile at this early stage.
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Communication is often futile if you don't understand the person you're communicating with.
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Some people joined guerrilla resistance, the 'Forest Brothers' but their fight was futile.
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For Democrats, their attempts to draw Mueller out of his shell were futile.
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Any new attempts to make Russia 'bow down' will be just as futile.
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His behavior is so predictably selfish and impulsive that analyzing it feels futile.
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But Alice's sudden burst of maternal instinct and care proves to be futile.
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Debating which generation is better or cooler is a popular but futile exercise.
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The judges concluded that the experimental treatment would be "futile," Fenton-Glynn said.
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This test, this booster and its futile flaring, are part of that there.
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Maybe thinking long game on this show is futile, but someone has too.
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Centering on the white racism perception of you is futile, distracting and corrosive.
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But he recognized U.S. efforts to bring about change may be mostly futile.
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So far Cruz's plan is working, though history may prove it laughably futile.
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That effort would seem futile at this point given Mr. Trump's delegate lead.
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And that doesn't mean recovery is futile, or that successful treatment isn't possible.
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It was futile, and they knew it, but the brain seizes under pressure.
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At Reason, Nick Gillespie declared that bringing broadband to rural America was futile.
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So before he even opened his eyes he knew it would be futile.
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" The entire spectacle was basically a futile defense of the misnomer "clean coal.
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It is tactically futile, in any event, to return cannon fire with slingshots.
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An evacuation would be practically impossible and emergency responses would be largely futile.
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So far, Griggs says, attempts to locate the 2 women have proven futile.
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It's not hard to tower over this perp, though intimidation would be futile.
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"Emergence" makes one feel that the effort of constructing civilization is completely futile.
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And that includes the notion that efforts like the class itself are futile.
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If you've made the journey in, any plans to rush out are futile.
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Like any good Beckett creation, Noll's protagonist recognizes that his quest is futile.
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Marriage is the one place where guile should be unnecessary and indeed, futile.
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" The attempt she describes is futile, "like riding a bike without a chain.
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The armed officer there was futile, and at least 50 people were murdered.
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Pursuing pathbreaking goals in today's Afghanistan as a woman is futile, she said.
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These futile efforts will result in such unions losing even more market share.
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It was a futile exercise, as he must have known it would be.
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A gong became a target, pummeled and scratched with furious yet futile energy.
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Why will this not just be another round of futile discussions in Geneva?
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Even so, it is wrong to think that all such attempts are futile.
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Banning us now is too little & too late, a futile gesture of impotence.
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At best enforcement is futile, but more often it actually makes things worse.
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Last year's futile efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act soured many conservatives.
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So taking antibiotics for these illnesses is an entirely futile and wasteful exercise.
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Honestly, persuading conservative elites seems almost as futile as persuading the conservative masses.
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The effort to overturn Citizens United by constitutional amendment has always been futile.
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It's a delicate balance—and in the closed, artificial ecosystem of an aquarium, futile.
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Betzen also sees any more aggressive action on the Kodi Foundation's part as futile.
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It was a futile effort; Allen's tattoos made him an easy culprit to identify.
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And keep in mind: attempting to wear every spring trend is futile (and counterproductive).
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Sammi tossed and turned, trying to soothe her aching body, but it was futile.
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Protesting in the name of ideological purity is not only futile, it is irresponsible.
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Those plans will be futile if federal regulators decide to crack down on Autopilot.
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Sadly for Gurley and his daughter Makaila, all efforts to save him proved futile.
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This is the nature of belief and swimming against this current would be futile.
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Your search might be long and futile, but it produces hilarious moments like this.
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Humphrey says he doesn't regret any of his efforts, as futile as they were.
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Such a filing could be futile since the state would have to approve it.
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It also represents a real blow to the increasingly futile cause of gun control.
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Dublin as a part of an ultimately futile effort to spark a rebellion against
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Fighting automated attacks with manual actions is like fighting mechanized armor with horses: futile.
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As a result, some Venezuelans are wary of demonstrations or see them as futile.
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Past efforts to strip lawmakers of parliamentary immunity have mostly proved futile in Argentina.
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Beating the heat is kind of a futile quest; I'm sweating profusely by 9AM.
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The third obvious reason for demonstrating is that using conventional political channels seems futile.
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There's been a lot of talk about recycling, but some of it seems futile.
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Their attempts to govern from the middle and appease their Democratic constituents are futile.
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It was an understandable, if futile, attempt to minimize the ramifications of his decision.
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After the explosions, relatives conducted frantic and sometimes futile searches of the city's hospitals.
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Driving away is also futile, since it's tough to anticipate where radiation will travel.
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He later wrote that he "didn't want to waste time on a futile struggle."
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They say that any action that does not further the people's war is futile.
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Mr. Leader, however, said that bringing cases against oil companies in Nigeria was futile.
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Mistakes are inevitable and it's futile to beat yourself up after you make one.
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There would be no more futile job searches or punitive sanctions for the unemployed.
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"Without taking care of the bigger picture, [raising elephants] would be futile," Angela said.
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His rebellion, though ultimately futile, disrupts the old order and fully exposes its cruelty.
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"Ugh, my whole body hurts," I griped, making minute, futile adjustments to my position.
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The war on drugs was "bankrupt" and futile and overwhelming the courts, he maintained.
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But continued authoritarianism in the face of fierce and determined protests will be futile.
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After three months of futile attempts to rehab the hip, Bob opted for surgery.
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That divide is why compiling a list of Jay's greatest work is almost futile.
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The process of designing a crossword puzzle is a futile exercise in utter frustration.
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If they had, they'd know all these shape-shifting, time-traveling machines are futile.
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And while the search for her father's account remained futile, the world had changed.
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In Warren's view, efforts to improve working conditions and environmental standards have been futile.
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Regardless of how good technology is at detecting drowsiness, fighting off sleep is futile.
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Sadly, my efforts have been futile, leaving me to bemoan my alarm come morning.
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Suiter's futile searches may have signaled a quiet desperation before a final, tragic decision.
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She also calls the airline, which feels like a futile kind of due diligence.
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Mr. Pérez bristled at the notion that re-engaging with Mr. Trump was futile.
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But anyone with a little geographical knowledge knows what a futile endeavor it is.
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In 50 years, we'll likely regret spending so much on this futile, antisocial endeavor.
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If the rebels cannot really remove Pelosi, then why embark on this futile campaign?
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They include pervasive propaganda and the methods of mass mobilization, which shape people's minds and contribute to the psychological state in which the regime seeks to keep them: a state of "futile resignation" in which people accept their lot because resistance is futile.
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The search seemed futile — that is, until I met the I Dew Care Sugar Kitten.
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Examinations may be rendered futile in 2019, Nesta said, as AI begins continuously assessing students.
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There's a sense in which seeking meaning in it is futile, or beside the point.
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Staying on top of it all is difficult, and often feels like a futile exercise.
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This latest ban on WhatsApp suggests that Zuckerberg's efforts, while persistent, have largely been 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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And if that's a futile endeavor for any parent, it's also this play's fondest wish.
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He died leading his army in futile battle in what is now modern-day Iran.
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If people think resistance is futile, even regime loyalists will just go with the flow.
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The working titles were The Singularity: Resistance Is Futile and The Harvest of the Damned.
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Attempts from zoos around the world to produce an equally gifted seer have proved futile.
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Sharing my story with a brand and family that silences our same voices is futile.
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Searching Mr Trump's past for clues that might enlighten the present is a futile exercise.
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Perhaps. But comparing one crisis to another is often futile, particularly in the financial industry.
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Holding onto hope before death—no matter how futile, medically speaking—is more socially acceptable.
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Vidal saw this as a futile attempt to breathe life into an otherwise airless neighborhood.
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It showed, particularly early in the game, although Charlotte made a futile second-half run.
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The fight for a season eight redo may be futile, but the disappointment is understandable.
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There will be other hard fights to come, but none this squalid, nor infuriatingly futile.
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With a storm as strong as Irma, however, that may have been a futile effort.
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Both considerations make throwing out a crab because it's missing a leg seem pretty futile.
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To speculate how the issue would unfold is not only futile but also highly inappropriate.
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" The critical comments from Coulter come as she promotes her new book,"Resistance is Futile!
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Abandoning racial categories almost seems as futile as trying to ignore the law of gravity.
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Continued aggressive lobbying to try to water down privacy protections seems inevitable — if ultimately futile.
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But calls to overcome our political divisions with greater civility are misguided, if not futile.
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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 dissections are futile in these photographs that skirt logic and our desires to classify.
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There is something heartbreakingly futile to the comic's ending, because justice may never be served.
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You can disagree with the proposed development, but in their experience, resistance is often futile.
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People duel against each other, and before the match they sometimes complain like futile fools.
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To yearn for a past that can never be recaptured is a hauntingly futile pursuit.
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But if you're looking to leave for philosophical reasons concerning privacy, it's a futile effort.
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Some would argue that bringing criminal charges against members of Mr. Maduro's team is futile.
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Those companies think their efforts will be largely futile, Ana Swanson of the NYT writes.
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Here by comparison all other sources of humor, including professional comedians, seem quaint and futile.
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For years, the legal quest to be compensated for confiscated properties in Cuba was futile.
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Trying to find a house in the Tuscan countryside by asking passers-by was futile.
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Efforts to tilt the telecast away from politics and causes may prove futile, of course.
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But if that is all he is going to run on, it will be futile.
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Offering up an imaginary monolithic culture as the model for success is futile and dangerous.
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Instead, it focuses on convincing men such as Lladrovci that their tactics are simply futile.
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The existence of this Proustian, artificial aide-mémoire feels as inevitable as it does futile.
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Often I think that writing is a futile effort; so is reading; so is living.
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We would like to remind our Greek friends that these futile efforts are in vain.
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"All the slander and defamation of the U.S. and other countries is futile." said Geng.
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A futile West Coast trip in which they went 0-4 stripped them of that.
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To be sure, the sleuthing involved in ferreting out a buyer can often prove futile.
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I don't have time for that kind of futile gesture, particularly when there's no threat.
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The special counsel may have sought to avoid the divisive consequences of a futile recommendation.
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That work is futile unless the United States and other major powers lead the way.
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Were projections like those on Tuesday night feel-good but otherwise futile gestures of solidarity?
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MarketWatch reports that several board members, including Chairman Mark Feidler, faced a significant, albeit futile, resistance.
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It makes you feel futile, it makes your entire soul feel cheap and taken advantage of.
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Nabiullina at the time said it would have been futile to hold back global market forces.
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But I intake dangerous amounts of this substance in a futile attempt to feel something—anything.
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Occasionally, though, cause and effect are so disproportionate that trying to untangle them is laughably futile.
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Holding on to hope before death—no matter how futile, medically speaking—is more socially acceptable.
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"Since this is a big investment, it would be futile to let it go," he said.
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Taliban: 'Futile, misleading negotiations' won't work The Taliban didn't just reject this invite; they explained why.
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Masri says that today, some people in Aleppo still urge resistance, futile though that might seem.
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Trade barriers, which prevent such advances, are a futile, self-defeating way to help the unskilled.
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What's worse, any such executive order likely would be declared unconstitutional, making the president's promise futile.
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However, such efforts proved futile when only five players showed up, two of whom were youngsters.
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Swatting them one at a time is mostly futile: The real answer is draining the swamps.
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The economic nostalgia of the left is as futile as the demographic nostalgia of the right.
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The many entrenched beneficiaries, both Afghan and American, have perverse incentives to continue the futile war.
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Finally, on May 12, 1949, the Soviets realized the blockade was futile and lifted their barricades.
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But two decades of futile wars aimed at expanding Russia's empire turned Ivan angry and paranoid.
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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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But critics within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) think it will be another futile attempt.
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"Completing the budget is more important than obstructing it and going into futile debate," he wrote.
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He spent Friday and Saturday evenings taking wild, futile, roundhouse swings, striking out and popping up.
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I was tired of futile attempts with online dating, and my free time wasn't worth risking.
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Compliance with foster families felt pointless, he said, and putting in effort at school seemed futile.
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So both players continue with a futile two-step, alternating between unsuccessful offensives and hasty retreats.
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If, as General Eisenkot warned, another uprising lies in the future, that would likely prove futile.
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But the futile recruiting of Jones seemed to bring rare and existential alarm to UConn fans.
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The news changes so much that trying to do jokes about that seems almost futile now.
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So he is making this futile gesture of an executive order a week before Election Day.
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"A primary challenge in 2020, as of today, would be futile for anyone," Mr. Berke said.
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During the day, soldiers would be ordered over the top on futile charges at enemy lines.
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Some large waste producers are still going through the motions of recycling, no matter how futile.
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Despite a "victory" for the Allies, much of the British role in the war seemed futile.
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It was wrenching to watch the futile Iraq war unfold, with its tragic echoes of Vietnam.
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Alternatively, Democrats can proffer another futile and stupid gesture as Trump champions his manifestly qualified nominee.
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Former detainees, though, have described the classes as numbing, harsh and ultimately futile attempts at brainwashing.
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Patrolling the Amazon's colossal rivers for pirates can resemble a futile game of cat-and-mouse.
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If you don't like the sound of this future, resistance is not futile — it is necessary.
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LOS ANGELES — Another weekend, another futile effort to rekindle interest in a long-dormant movie series.
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Even my best efforts to convert the most rigid nonbelievers — apparently, they exist — have proved futile.
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Soon, any attempt to contain the spread of the disinformation in the video would prove futile.
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I pull my jean jacket over my head and pick up the pace, but it's futile.
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It is futile to believe that we will be able to spend our way to success.
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"It was like climbing sand dunes — a grueling and ultimately futile exercise," Mr. Rohatyn later recalled.
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Many liberals and some African Americans will suggest that another meeting with the president is futile.
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My neighbors and I went to housing court, but without a lawyer, our efforts were futile.
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"Sadly, all efforts were futile and the child was beyond medical help," the fire department said.
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Relying on the current system risks making the effort to "solarize" the island inefficient or futile.
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And that company needs proper facilities to train on, or else the whole thing is futile.
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Four ground operations in the area, supported by regular, smaller airstrikes, had proven futile, they say.
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These efforts, futile as they sometimes prove to be, still have a positive effect, supporters say.
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Many have tried to fight this overwhelming feeling of dread, but most efforts have been rendered futile.
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He fell unconscious and efforts by his partner to resuscitate him were futile, the SEAL unit said.
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That is why it's crucial for Trump's opponents to be aware that protestors' efforts are not futile.
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If everything matters, nothing is more or less important than anything else, and the Resistance becomes futile.
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Under these facts, the court cannot find a due process violation sufficient to make amelioration measures futile.
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And, indeed, resistance is becoming futile to all of them, although perhaps most of all to Amazon.
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The battles over the platform were basically futile, if you're thinking from the standpoint of actual policy.
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Trying to please people whose don't want to be pleased, merely indulged in their displeasure, is futile.
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Allonzo Trier dropped 22 points off the bench against the Nets, helping spur a futile comeback effort.
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We both agreed that as his parents, our responsibility was to save him terrible and futile suffering.
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Even if, ultimately, it's likely to be just as futile a strategy for fixing the underlying problem.
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Donald has never been public about his faith, and when he has tried, it has been futile.
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The city government did not, however, take the disabled buttons away—beckoning countless fingers to futile pressing.
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Pass out after chugging water, knowing full well my desperate attempt to avoid a hangover is futile.
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And like the Obamacare repeal fight, it is likely to end in futile, flailing frustration for Republicans.
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But all those efforts are futile because both women are adults who exist independently of each other.
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But resisting it is futile because all phones will soon have notches so get used to it.
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Even blocking and filtering efforts by carriers are rendered futile due to the gravitas of the problem.
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Trump saw this as utterly pointless and futile behavior that would never fly in the business world.
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"SaveAleppo," the hashtag reads, but with every anguished tweet today its message seems more futile. https://twitter.
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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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But, perhaps perceiving how futile and silly such an effort would be, EPA has elected not to.
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Let me remind you: this isn't an overwhelming authoritarian tide, this is futile backlash against unprecedented progress.
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I came here craving peace and stillness, but I've come to see that pursuing that is futile.
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Teachers report that children are stressed and that the need for constant resits makes planning ahead futile.
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So parsing any of his campaign's statements about racism, online or offline, may be a futile effort.
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India has made several futile attempts to enter into a free trade agreement with the European Union.
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Mr. Trumka later described the meeting as an ultimately futile attempt to engage with the incoming president.
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Please join me in celebrating this exciting new adventure in pointless administrative precision and futile institutional control!
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But the desperate search for freedom that drives other twins to violent ends may be ultimately futile.
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Another word that members used was "dystalgia," a wash of despair that one's life has been futile.
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Mr. Bonnelly said the dogs were a "self-replenishing population," making efforts to round up dogs futile.
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Having two cats means that hair accumulates in every single nook and cranny, and vacuuming feels futile.
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Many of these women, like McLaren, turned to the authorities in ultimately futile attempts to secure protection.
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And all the while, Amazon is taking steps to ensure that many of those measures are futile.
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That is why it's crucial for Trump's opponents to be aware that protesters' efforts are not futile.
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But, perhaps perceiving how futile and silly such an effort would be, the EPA elected not to.
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Many Palestinians in Bethlehem described their own leadership as feckless and confrontation with the Israelis as 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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THE STONE The toxic disinformation of social media has rendered traditional forms of humor quaint and futile.
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You can't have a system where the process and possibility of reunification is murky and maybe futile.
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Running from most animals — including coyotes, feral dogs and bears — is a futile exercise, Ms. Levin said.
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" If the virus is even more widespread, he added, "it's futile to try to trace every contact.
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Some believe he will never come to the table, which would make increased U.S. military pressure futile.
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But again, the actions taken by Skynet, Legion, and the humans seeking to stop them aren't futile.
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In "How to Win Friends and Influence People," Dale Carnegie taught us that criticizing others is futile.
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On Sunday, National Conference leader Hasnain Masoodi said that unless political leaders were released, elections were futile.
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"My pushback was hard but futile," Mr. Mistry said in the letter, which The Times has reviewed.
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They might choose not to re-elect the Democratic lawmakers who embarked on such a futile crusade.
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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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For Dale Martin, such a debate is not only futile and unnecessary, but misses the whole point.
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"It is futile for any country to distort the facts or to smear China," Ms. Hua said.
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At her back is an electric heater, on futile full blast to stave off the bitter cold.
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He says that climate change renders the old dichotomy of the global versus the local completely futile.
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But that won't stop Iran from pursuing what seems like an incredibly risky and possibly futile plan.
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"He definitely has some sort of fetish," Bell said of Nigel's futile attempt to woo his concrete partner.
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Abortions on "medically futile" fetuses that would not survive past birth are also not subject to the restrictions.
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The days of passing satisfying but futile Obamacare repeal bills for a Democratic president to ignore are over.
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They want something new and different, somebody who is willing to fight, even if it&aposs futile, right?
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WILLIAMS: I think it&aposs like a guy trying to clean up after the circus, it&aposs futile.
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While hardcore kids and metal heads in the US fostered a futile rivalry, Sacrilege melted those styles together.
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"I'd say with confidence that foreign threats against the Islamic Establishment (of Iran) are futile," said Brig. Gen.
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In recent days, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has reiterated that she thinks impeaching Trump is a futile business.
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The futile life-saving attempts were desperately made as Paris, then 11, and Prince Jackson, 12, looked on.
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Water streams aggressively past makeshift pumps, a fairly futile municipal effort to curb what's becoming a rampant problem.
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But the treatment meted out to immigrants in developing countries is nonetheless dismal—futile, illiberal and economically ruinous.
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The plaintiffs' portrayal of the executive order as an exercise in Muslim-hatred is futile, the administration insists.
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The scroll was written by Sansa in effort to avoid having Ned Stark beheaded, which ultimately proved futile.
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We need to stop our futile search for the perfect candidate — because she never existed and never will.
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"Japanese authorities may be forced to once again consider intervention, although prior episodes have proved futile," said Schlossberg.
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Central banks around the world have been engaged in an energetic but mostly futile battle to generate inflation.
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Grassroots efforts can feel futile when Trump is considering pulling the US out of the Paris climate agreement.
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Even beyond being about old technology, it had that feeling of being kind of futile but not hopeless.
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That brings diplomats to the third part of China's message, namely, that resistance to its rise is futile.
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Trying to 'convert' people to polyamory is a lot of emotional labor and generally a futile exercise anyway.
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However, when other girls say yes to a lower rate, asking for more can become a futile exercise.
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My colleagues shared screenshots of their increasingly futile attempts to type out messages on Facebook Messenger... ... and Twitter.
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"This represents the last option to save the species after all previous breeding attempts proved futile," said Vigne.
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As of today, it seems that Netflix's attempts to block uFlix may have been futile after all, though.
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If the members decide that a procedure is futile, doctors can withdraw or refuse treatment against family wishes.
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And they're given the stark impression that any efforts they take to understand it are futile and misguided.
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A desperate Hunt turned to murder, killing two wealthy men in a futile attempt to steal their money.
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It therefore seems futile to rehearse arguments for greater diversity one more time, however compelling we find them.
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Trump's efforts to bring these kinds of jobs back to the United States is futile, according to Bajarin.
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Analysts are debating the reason for the expired testing moratorium, but searching for a specific cause is futile.
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Mr. Shirky thinks it's futile for now to try to control what his children do on the web.
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The world will see a destructive, futile, and useless war, likely to lead to yet another failed state.
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The ship had sunk relatively close to shore, but efforts to locate the wreck were futile for decades.
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But House Republicans haven't given up on their effort, despite the signal from Trump that it is futile.
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This futile gesture symbolizes how the city feels isolated from so much of the rest of the country.
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This is not to say that resistance is futile, that pushing back against bad political choices is impossible.
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Everyone hates Red Sox fans now because they were historically futile and then turned insufferable after they won.
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These allusions don't amount to anything and come off like futile, nonsensical bids to explain the German setting.
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Prurient, futile and unconscionably long, his darkly comic portrait of teen life has an unusually high body count.
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Books of The Times As futile as it can feel, there's a lot to be said for frustration.
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It's not the passport itself, but what the changes symbolize — something which I believe to be completely futile.
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Moreover, hard-liners, such as Iran's supreme leader, believe compromise with the United States is a futile exercise.
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The vendors waved fans in front of their wares in a futile attempt to deter the swarming flies.
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Instead of making futile attempts to rush me, they have learned to use the delays to their advantage.
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The first time, I turned around after five minutes; I have seldom tried anything that felt so futile.
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In this Trump age of gross unreason, meeting incivility with civility has felt small to me, and futile.
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Though their efforts proved futile, state agencies were the first to pass laws restricting hunting of passenger pigeons.
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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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There was little sense of urgency in their efforts, as if they had already decided it was futile.
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"Japanese authorities may be forced to once again consider intervention although prior episodes have proved futile," he said.
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It's futile to describe a book by recounting its plot, and this is especially true in this case.
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The futile search to find a decent replacement for Embiid only proves that it is not worth looking.
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And perhaps in the absence of futile attempts to assess it, gooey amorphous authenticity will reign once more.
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Whether that is true, of course, is a futile debate, one that exists only on permanently shifting ground.
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Mr. Adams said it would have been futile to apply, as the available positions were reserved for Republicans.
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Then, it blew billions of its FX reserves in its ultimately futile battle against Soros and the market.
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Calderwood's concerns have been largely futile, as the White House and others have sought to politicize Tibbetts' death.
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EBITDA will decline as management will be forced to make incremental investments in a futile game of catchup.
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But talks on this seemingly intractable issue will continue this week, regardless of how futile they might be.
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Every quarter, they repeat this futile task in redundancy, all to delay public awareness of their financial backers.
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Israel is intent on showing that resistance is futile, that Palestinians must roll over and accept their fate.
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The ash is almost up to the roof, and his efforts are so futile he stops and weeps softly.
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In his seven months at the hotspot, he had wasted about $212,22016 on smugglers in futile efforts to escape.
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But 96 percent of physicians pointed to themselves - or "doctor-related factors" - as the main drivers of futile treatment.
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Thankfully, they recommended that I make the right decision and abandon the futile task before we had ever begun.
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By another, it underlined a largely futile exercise that seems destined to conclude with more questions than it began.
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Cole refuses to accept her fate, despite her peers repeatedly telling her that resistance aboard the Callister is futile.
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If there's one thing we should have learned by now with Game of Thrones, it's that predictions are futile.
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I spent 1993-97 and 2010-2016 writing about global business in an ultimately futile attempt to understand capitalism.
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Police fired tear gas to disperse the crowd after repeated warnings "went futile," the government said in a statement.
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But judging from the experience of the technology news website Ars Technica, blocking the blockers is a futile exercise.
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We were in rehearsal when we found out and it feels so futile, maybe we should pack it up.
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"There was all this effort to look for people and survivors but it was just so futile," he said.
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Others warn that may be a futile gesture: routes to the palace are easily blocked by loyalist security forces.
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Ganek said he was told suing the government may prove futile but ultimately decided he had a "substantive case."
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ANY amount of parental scrimping and saving is futile if the children run amok with the family credit card.
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It is futile to speculate how much Russia's efforts succeeded in altering the outcomes of votes and poisoning politics.
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Women have been trying to break in since we entered the workforce, but our efforts have been largely futile.
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Linking the ACA to Medicare and Social Security could quickly defuse the (so far) futile fights about repealing it.
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TMZ broke the story, David was in need of a kidney transplant but ultimately doctors said it was futile.
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Returning to suppression is futile, since Kurds form a large minority and control havens in Syria and northern Iraq.
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And in the past two episodes, that's been Serena Joy's increasingly futile attempts to pull the strings around her.
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To be a good ally, you have to be active — allyship is futile if no one knows about it.
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Ryan has opposed bringing Hurd-Aguilar to the floor, saying the move is futile since Trump won't sign it.
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Intel's decades of futile attempts to shrink desktop chips into mobile devices have shown how not to do things.
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Her mission is to show that these sorts of changes aren't as complicated, or futile, as we may think.
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"There are enough representatives on both sides of the aisle that recognize that it's kind of futile," said Wright.
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"This is a futile effort," said Rachel Bovard, a policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation, which opposes the bill.
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Others think the effort to limit warming to 1.5 degrees is futile no matter the outcome of the election.
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Our troops and the American people deserve clear objectives, with a well-drawn distinction between defense and futile interventions.
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A back-bench state representative and dermatologist, Bentley mounted what looked like a futile run for governor in 2010.
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" The "pervasiveness" of public policy supports for energy sources means it is "futile to attempt to unwind them all.
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In the end, we understand that it's just another futile distraction keeping our larger, looming existential anxieties at bay.
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We see his futile foray into the Amazon Basin, as he searches for a lost patch of rubber trees.
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Fraudsters will often wrap items in foil and stuff packages with sticks in a futile attempt to evade suspicion.
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Many doctors' offices that offer gender-confirming surgical procedures don't even entertain insurance claims because, historically, it's pretty futile.
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In anticipation of inevitable marijuana legalization, Congress is introducing legislation attempting to end the futile federal prohibition of pot.
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I have even encountered woodland sites where the bunches themselves were numerous, and where counting the individuals seemed futile.
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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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His final hours were spent in Manhattan in a desperate and ultimately futile attempt to raise some fast cash.
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But he dismissed other rules, like microstamping and ammunition record-keeping, as futile in stopping criminals from using guns.
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In any case, both workarounds—and whatever the Times is doing—sort of make the Chrome 76 fix futile.
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He also prompted harsh criticism from former national security officials, but his efforts to target them were ultimately futile.
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Wherever he goes, multiple defenders follow in an often futile attempt to deny him even an inch of space.
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It's a measured sort of futile violence, and once again a large part of the audience reacts with laughter.
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It is of the essence of such gestures that they appear futile, yet have the power to redeem humanity.
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Trying to change the neighborhood, much less all of San Pedro Sula, or the rest of Honduras, seemed futile.
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Second, American sanctions and Cuban fear of economic reforms have rendered the push for greater foreign investment somewhat futile.
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It's a shame, because the unavoidable mayhem and futile attempts at teamwork are exactly what made Overcooked so fun.
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Or was she simply acutely aware that worldly pleasures were futile, and that death was always around the corner?
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After their summer romance, Dean never heard from Alex again and embarked on a futile effort to find him.
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Peterson argued that impeachment is a futile exercise given that GOP senators aren't likely to convict and remove Trump.
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If your attempts at adding volume with a round brush have been futile, you'll love the Revlon One-Step.
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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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But past such efforts have been futile; sanctions and harsh rhetoric have done little to influence North Korea's calculus.
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The commission's legacy is marked by chaos in its ranks and wasting resources on a futile search for fraud.
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Viewed solely from the lens of federal spending, attacking any of these programs is a futile and counterproductive gesture.
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Even if Jackie had gone to court, though, the Communications Decency Act would have rendered legal action practically futile.
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I think the problem is not futility per se, but futile suffering, which is the default condition for humans.
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Council members may submit another waiver, but it is likely a futile move unless the Commission changes its criteria.
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In Colony, however, resistance is all but futile (to steal the catchphrase of another sci-fi universe's alien collective).
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But just because forecasting and avoiding a famine is hard work doesn't make the Famine Action Mechanism a futile act.
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Messi currently responds to about 10 commands from Aleksandr but finding a wild animal handler to train him proved futile.
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Charlie Culberson does not hit a stunning but ultimately futile home run in the bottom half of an instant classic.
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Or they lament the firm's seemingly ad hoc decision-making, rendering any attempt at long-term planning or consistency futile.
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It is futile to try to assess the true extent of Jew-hatred from the deeds of a lone gunman.
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Whether it's a Marc Jacob's smartwatch or a deliciously kissable pair of lips that you're coveting, resistance is basically futile.
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Such reform would take away the incentive for American companies to keep profits overseas and seek — now seemingly futile — inversions.
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It is easy to dismiss the exercise as a futile effort to find a minimum common denominator between disparate opposites.
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"Today, the average player is likely to encounter a futile scripter just once in every 400 ranked games," Riot writes.
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And I've been assured suing the government, or poking the bear, as you say, would be a completely futile experience.
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It's a futile endeavor, of course, as I know very well from the times I've been in supercars in motion.
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On the flip side, signing a player to an offer sheet is almost always futile, because they're basically always matched.
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Still, the report doesn't mean the world is locked into these projections, or that the Paris treaty is entirely futile.
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This action, while evidently futile (remember: we know this won't work) is still an interesting look at the legal system.
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When startled, they curl up into a ball – a technique that is futile against the cable snares set by hunters.
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It urged Macron in a statement not to launch what it said would be a "futile" debate on the issue.
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I had different kinds of interactions with her, including a few futile attempts to actually help her find a shelter.
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That does not mean a futile attempt to retreat into a fortress economy and to raise the drawbridge against migration.
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If she is confident that any case against her would be weak or even futile, the pardon has less value.
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Fans demand that clubs announce new signings, despite the fact that their demands are as ludicrous as they are futile.
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Life can feel pretty futile if you don't have a goal you're inspired by—what's the point of all this?
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At their essences, both love—romantic or otherwise—and faith are futile concepts strengthened through little more than personal conviction.
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American security would be better served by ending the wasteful practice of billions annually on reckless and futile military interventions.
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Signs designating the area a quiet zone proved futile, and numerous visits by the police provided only short-term solutions.
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They had long scorned the agreement as a futile parley with perfidious Washington; now they can claim to be prescient.
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I look over to see how they're doing, and realize how futile my own efforts are in comparison to theirs.
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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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Ms. Ross's efforts to imbue the studio vocalists with the proper jazz feeling proved futile, and they were let go.
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A host of N.B.A. stars realigned themselves over the summer with the shared goal, however futile, of stalking the Warriors.
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Many argue the collection of incarceration fees helps to offset exorbitant incarceration budgets, but this practice is immoral and futile.
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Kashuv's Twitter thread, which included a blow-by-blow account of his futile efforts to restore his admission, went viral.
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It didn't work then, and it would be far more futile in the age of the internet and social media.
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On average, he said, these patients struggle through ten months of futile antibiotic treatments before they try a fecal transplant.
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Afghanistan will take its place in American history alongside Vietnam as a symbol of endless conflict and futile foreign entanglements.
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Early in the second half, he returned a kickoff for an apparent touchdown, cutting through a warren of futile lunges.
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As mandatory spending continues to crowd out discretionary spending, policymaking is becoming an increasingly futile function in the budgetary process.
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Today, as one Aleppo district after another falls, the rebels know resistance is futile; Mr. Assad knows that they know.
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Mr. Brammall is, per usual, the straight man, offering futile protests in response to Stokes's winsomely idiotic and offensive riffs.
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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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Influential voices have suggested that, if diplomatic efforts continue to prove futile, the U.S. should consider a preemptive military strike.
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Trying to prevent businesses from pursuing what is in the best interests of shareholders and what drives profitability is futile.
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Rather than fight, Mulvaney got in line with the new deficit-spending Republican party, perhaps realizing that fighting was futile.
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That the interview looked futile — that questions can be answered with contempt, mockery and brazen falsehoods — was the entire point.
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A small donor system doesn't try to end all private money in politics, a futile goal sought by earlier plans.
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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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This last exhibition investigates notions of perfection — the daunting and futile search for it, and the acceptance of its absence.
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Sadly, in the end, it proved to be a self-destructive exercise as much as it was bizarre and futile.
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It's difficult to watch, and yet it's almost cathartic to see someone fight back, no matter how futile that process seems.
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Many Argentinians consider it as their Vietnam War — a bullish, if futile, confrontation that tore conscripted soldiers away from their families.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, through his spokesman, said an economic focus was "futile" without a conversation about the political horizon.
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That bird, which locals named Nigel, spent years in a futile effort to woo a mate who was made of concrete.
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Since we have no way to know how life really began, the quest to re-create it by Delos is futile.
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But Trump and Republicans are learning that votes cast by a governing party are tougher than those made in futile protest.
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Thirty percent of the Australian doctors said they or their colleagues had provided futile treatment due to worries about legal consequences.
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The whole point of showing war, indeed, has been to prove how futile it is as a means of resolving issues.
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One of the play's strengths is that it asks this question without claiming that such gestures are either futile or salvific.
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Instead he ended up having a months-long, ultimately futile set of email exchanges with Dan Rose, Facebook's VP for partnerships.
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He simultaneously defended the Oscars—arguing that boycotting the ceremony is futile—and lambasted Hollywood for its long history of racism.
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Up until now, I placated myself in the name of self-preservation because fighting a futile fight every day is demoralizing.
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After nearly three years of helping us in our (often futile) quest for inbox zero, Dropbox has officially shut it down.
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Yet by the time of their futile last stand, they had come to represent all native Americans in the popular imagination.
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In this case, self-censorship is largely futile, but moreover, it dilutes the meaning behind the violent statements we're talking about.
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Hanging onto summer for as long as possible is a futile task, but that doesn't mean it's easy to say goodbye.
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In a futile attempt to make the score respectable, head coach Bill O'Brien played his starters deep into the fourth quarter.
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Switches on the dashboard were flipped, indicating that pilot Smith made a futile effort to restore power to the crew cabin.
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However, attempts to revive its fortunes proved futile and creditors voted in June to wind up the unlisted firm by Aug.
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"Efforts to learn the reasons behind the termination have been futile," he said, adding that the Guild was considering legal action.
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This anywhering of the office renders our attempts to disappear by implementing out-of-the-office replies instantly moot and futile.
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They believe the Twitter essay is a futile, gratuitous, and narcissistic bid for attention—an assault, even, on the Twitter community.
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"We know the back-and-forth of getting to the first date can be frustrating, if not futile," the site reads.
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So far the Trump agenda has gotten bogged down on political clashes and a futile effort to far to repeal Obamacare.
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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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" Brody and other Baylor faculty put together a task force to devise an ethical approach to deal with such "futile care.
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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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The attribution is clearly no easy tasks when cyber vulnerabilities are involved, thus traditional state-level deterrence strategies often prove futile.
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But in the end, and after she was pushed into isolation and paranoia, her efforts to dam the blood were futile.
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It's an odd, futile rebellion, one that underscores the incoherence of a lot of Pelosi's critics, particularly in right-leaning districts.
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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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This seems to me an authentic though ultimately futile response to the vaporous omnipresence and instantly disposable excitements of the Internet.
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Hamas has chosen to weaponize fire in its persistent but futile effort to destroy Israel, driving hopes for peace further away.
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The wealthy, famous and powerful may fight harder to stave off hedonic adaptation, but data show such efforts are basically futile.
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That worries some analysts who say planemakers are waging a futile battle, having already sold out for the next 8 years.
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The Iranian totalitarian theocracy is behaving just as he predicted, reminding the world that appeasement is a futile and foolish strategy.
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Michal Wilczynski, a former chief geologist in Poland and former deputy environment minister, said trying to rescue Kompania Weglowa was futile.
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I've seen people saying that these individual actions are futile because it's ultimately 100 companies producing almost all greenhouse gas emissions.
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After a few minutes of futile interaction with the space, you finally turn inward and pray, and there is blissful silence.
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In other words, posting pictures of fish may be just as futile and shrouded in mystery as other heterosexual mating rituals.
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After years of futile lobbying for public funding, he sought private donations to open the museum that commemorates the air raid.
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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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" Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, issued a statement calling the House bill a "futile gesture to handcuff the U.S. economy.
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The line between resistance and results is bright and undeniable... it shows people everywhere that organizing and resistance is not futile.
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The White House briefing has been criticized as a rote, futile exercise where journalists showboat for cameras and press aides dissemble.
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"I'm feeling disempowered and frustrated, and even though it feels slightly futile, I wanted to be here today," Ms. Chandler said.
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So was her coach, Darren Cahill, who resigned the position for a spell, exasperated by Halep's futile bouts with self-loathing.
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But now it seems that politics has become the same sort of tribal, instinctual concept that makes religious arguments so futile.
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Largely futile, conformity-enforcing vigilance undoes public space as a place for free exchange, for encounter with difference and for adventure.
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But she had previously insisted that impeaching the president without the Senate votes needed for conviction would be a futile exercise.
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"Raising public spending in order to reduce Germany's current account surplus would likely be a futile undertaking as well," he said.
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My friends and I spent a disproportionate amount of our early lives engaged in futile hair-based disputes with our mothers.
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Others made futile charges through plumes of tear gas in an attempt to break through cordons of armed riot police officers.
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She did not much like the strict women's dress code, but she was there to excel, not to wage futile battles.
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" Cuomo has previously called the NRA's lawsuit "a futile and desperate attempt to advance its dangerous agenda to sell more guns.
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Resting any hopes on the United Nations seems futile, given the approach it has taken to the dispute in recent decades.
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We did not trust American intentions after 18 years of war and several previous attempts at negotiation that had proved futile.
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The bleacher inhabitants, stripped to their waists, picked up baseballs and hurled them back in futile loops at the upper deck.
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Fundamentally, the United States-Taliban deal is futile if Washington is not also committed to dismantling and defeating the Haqqani network.
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So the petering off of Dry January doesn't mean that booze has us all by the balls and sobriety is futile.
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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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Patients who engage in advance care planning are less likely to die in the hospital or to receive futile intensive care.
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He stuffed wet towels in the cavity underneath his door, but worried it was futile since doors were opened for meals.
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McConnell said it would be a futile exercise to move forward without a sense of what Trump would sign into law.
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Arguments are futile until we acknowledge that this is the fundamental question: Is abortion "terminating a fetus" or "killing a baby"?
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He is accused of feeding false information to officials in an ultimately futile attempt to prevent them from discovering Volkswagen's fraud.
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In its latest futile gesture, the House Freedom Caucus sets its sights on ousting the man overseeing Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
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"It's a futile gesture," he told me — which, in the tightly controlled vocabulary of McConnell's politics, is the gravest of insults.
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In this slow war of attrition, McNab was desperate to make clear to the invaders that claiming government land was futile.
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Arenciaba, Cifuentes, and Degironimo all said they thought coming forward was futile, as the assailants were "well connected" in the department.
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Diana DeGette (CO) could serve instead of pursuing her futile-looking challenge to Clyburn for the No. 3 spot, or Rep.
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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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"If I knew he was time-trialing that day, I wouldn't run with him, because it was" futile trying to keep up.
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Left unresolved, this sticking point could render a carefully crafted statement by Brussels in mid-December futile as Erdogan shreds the accord.
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Police said he was taken into custody because he was "seriously suspected of aggravated homicide for futile motives," according to CBS News.
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What the situation calls for, instead, is a list of specific, non-futile measures a Democratic majority could take to check Trump.
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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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In the logbook, plant managers describe the "heroic" but ultimately futile efforts of the crew to protect the volatile compounds from floodwaters.
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Who could capture this doomed quest, this futile attempt to impose humanity onto a frozen rock so profoundly indifferent to human endeavor?
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The first survey of searching seven galaxies between 2012 and 2014 was futile, finding nothing in the same class as Eta Carinae.
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Principled, one-man-stands of linguistic resistance against the crypto(currency) craze are futile at this particular juncture of its technological development.
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They are at least civil enough of late to go for a walk in the park, so hope, while futile, remains alive.
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Decades later, that proclamation helped motivate a brave but futile nine-year armed struggle by forest-dwelling partisans against the Soviet occupiers.
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The force fields of all the alien craft are disabled when a signal is sent from the mother ship, rendering them futile.
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If the Trump administration succeeds in making changes through regulatory agencies, it can avoid a lengthy and perhaps futile battle among lawmakers.
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In order, it runs: China's rise is inevitable; there are rich rewards for those who co-operate with it; resistance is futile.
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But as the Colorado University, Boulder physics professor explained to me over Skype, the endeavor of studying time is anything but futile.
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"I think we just got to a point where we thought, 'This is futile,'" RNC spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters Thursday evening.
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Although a boycott against KAIST would be significant, some experts say the campaign to control the development of autonomous weaponry is futile.
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Most in the opposition fear that taking up arms against the government would be both futile and play into Ortega&aposs hands.
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Hippocrates opposed this practice, though he did not believe that terminally ill patients should be exposed to unnecessary and futile medical treatment.
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All for seemingly meaningless results, since you have so little agency as an inspector that any commonplace acts of defiance seem futile.
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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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After Trump's tough anti-Iranian talk in Saudi Arabia, Europe is sure to lose patience with the American policy of futile confrontation.
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The attempt to rally prices, the report confirms, is a somewhat futile effort to avoid a major debt crisis by lifting revenues.
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SINCE 43, when the Affordable Care Act became law, Republicans in Congress have pursued a relentless but futile campaign to repeal it.
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Observing a person obliterate themselves with booze and drugs in a futile attempt to shake self-doubt and loathing is never fun.
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As reported by The Guardian, the wall may prove to be a futile effort, further stoking anti-foreigner and fanning ideological divisions.
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And even if you do find yourself in a position of such power, to forcibly change another's behavior is nonetheless ultimately futile.
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Like other Republican grandees, he complains about conservative outside groups and talk-radio hosts who in 2013 forced a "futile" government shutdown.
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Clinton supporters, in turn, have gone after Sanders for continuing what they consider a futile campaign in the face of daunting odds.
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After a futile Warriors possession, the horn sounded, and the reigning champions, who held the single-season record for wins, were dethroned.
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Real even if futile vis-à-vis the absolute arbitrariness of what happens to be happening moment by moment, day by day.
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Republican senators already killed the judicial filibuster when Democrats invoked it in a futile effort to block Neil Gorsuch's confirmation last year.
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If the committee agrees that the treatment is futile, the family may seek another doctor to provide it, within a time limit.
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" Imitating those on the other side, he says, "Let's just block out those horrible people, like me, who say it's all futile.
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Two of Toronto's first five hitters twisted themselves to the dirt, losing their balance with ferocious and futile hacks at Darvish's fastball.
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Earlier this week, THR posted a deeply sourced report about hacking threats throughout Hollywood, and the largely futile efforts to thwart them.
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Tried-and-true valuation methodology — like the type highly dependent on historical relationships — suddenly becomes futile in a world of negative rates.
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But it's after the twist in season 2 that the show gets really exciting, as Michael realizes that his plan is futile.
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Women in Georgia may still receive an abortion if the pregnancy is believed to be "medically futile," according to Georgia Public Broadcasting.
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"Or, they may feel that sharing their own struggles is futile, because the topic will ultimately bounce back to your office dilemmas."
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But the timing of Mr. Romney's assault, after Mr. Trump's commanding electoral victories in seven states on Tuesday, may make it futile.
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Unfortunately, H.R. 1 is a futile response largely because Senate Republicans have shown little to no interest in addressing the underlying problems.
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Spicer could simply refuse to comment, but this reads like a futile attempt to opt out of being asked questions at all.
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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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She tries desperately to sabotage his chemistry and collabos with Freda Gatz, a futile attempt to guard him against Frank Gathers' spawn.
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Then I'd use my skirmishers to bleed the enemy formation, and lure as many of their troops as possible into futile pursuits.
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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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Between the corrupt stranglehold the Republican Party has on political power and the incompetence and cowardice of the Democrats, voting feels futile.
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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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But if the last year has taught us anything, it's that predictions are futile in the face of resurgent irrationalism and illiberalism.
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Doctors at the Domingo Luciani Hospital in Caracas described the futile task of trying to keep patients alive with manually pumped respirators.
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But this was futile as the virus spread across the globe – all we can do now is to slow the virus down.
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After parading the letter around the office in a futile search for reassurance from my guffawing colleagues — do men get such missives?
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A last-ditch scramble by the Afghan government on Sunday to persuade the Taliban to extend the brief cease-fire proved futile.
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Almost all these deaths have occurred during a futile, seemingly endless effort at European-led peacemaking with a vacuum of U.S. leadership.
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What these books show is that societies must find ways to absorb these economic transformations, because it is futile to resist them.
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Sculptor Jean (Hans) Arp later recalled a futile sense that the Cabaret might "save mankind from the furious folly of these times".
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In the face of an intransigent right-wing government in Israel, which doesn't believe Palestinians should have full rights, negotiations are futile.
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Presidents and kings and prime ministers and diplomats and special envoys have labored for a century in a futile search for peace.
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Even so, our choices can feel a bit futile when just 20 companies are responsible for a third of all carbon emissions.
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"Trying to time the market is usually a futile exercise, and in fact, too much trading leads to subpar performance," Mishra said.
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Today, asking Anita to recount which group home or outpatient program Aaron tried when, or what each one focused on, is futile.
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LONDON (Reuters) - So rapid has been American teenager Taylor Fritz's rise up the ATP rankings that setting targets has become futile exercise.
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But remarks from both sides of the aisle suggest the process against Donald Trump will be a futile vote along party lines.
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Yet Sears spent $22017 billion buying back its own shares since 2005 in a futile effort to help support its stock price.
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The contentious, brief and futile session underscored an impasse that is looking each day like an insurmountable gulf between the two sides.
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I think that we are in such a bizarre and distressing political time now that those hopes seem pretty futile to me.
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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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But the show has done nothing to explore options for maintaining peace within that system, even if those options are ultimately futile.
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He said Gallagher went to work with two medics trying to save his life but it became clear their efforts were futile.
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A French aid worker in Calais, François Guennoc, told The Guardian that the wall is a futile effort to prevent the inevitable.
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PG: I like that it provides a kind of hope and it offers some sort of action, but the action is futile.
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We embark on the mission with an unnamed liquidator in real-time, realizing how dangerous yet nearly futile the efforts must have felt.
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"We already love him, and even our cats Bob and Bernadette are finding Freddy's charm futile to resist," Bush wrote on his Facebook.
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The more I have learned and engaged, the more I have realized how futile it is to try to group all Muslims together.
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The boys' backs stiffen and ache and they die within a few hours, the 19th-century treatment—cleaning the wounds thoroughly—proving futile.
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IT WAS, even by the dispiriting standards of Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy, a futile concept: a peace conference without either of the warring parties.
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With nowhere to hide, I spent several futile runs trying to overwhelm it with sheer force before trying a different, more tactical approach.
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The group originally supported the bill, but withdraw that because of an exemption 'for "medically futile' pregnancies, which are often misdiagnosed," Wilson said.
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The central bank has burned through $16bn in reserves since the start of the year in a futile attempt to defend the peso.
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The actor told this story intending to make the point that a vengeful mindset can be corrosive to the soul, and ultimately futile.
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In a similar way, it feels quite futile for me to make a quantitative prediction about when these breakthroughs in AGI will arrive.
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But hoping words would stop rising and, more to the point, falling, is as futile as wanting technology, politics or fashion to freeze.
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Chasing happiness, people realize eventually, is a futile pursuit because it's meant to happen in small doses so you don't choke on it.
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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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This is standard zombie procedure — the uninfected are always quarantining the infected in a futile effort to prevent the spread of the disease.
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Like most other measures the United States has adopted to force out Cuba's communist regime, the baseball ban is likely to prove futile.
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Earlier this year, Vroom laid off roughly 30 percent of its staff after a futile attempt at building brick-and-mortar car dealerships.
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That's why a character-by-character refresher course ahead of House Of Cards' upcoming final season, premiering on Friday, November 2, is futile.
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Freedom of Information requests have exposed how taxpayers' money has been spent on futile legal battles to prevent vulnerable people receiving help. ind.
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I'll just say to the Democrats that if you are going to do it, don't do it as a noble, but futile, gesture.
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It's about the discrepancy between any two minds, the inherent misunderstandings arising from different needs and perceptions, the futile wish to control outcomes.
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During that 23-year interval, there have been futile reconciliations and false permutations under other names, or the original firearms and flowers brand.
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There's just a creepy, futile impulse to tunnel our way back to the past, to the room where it happened, to the evidence.
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A quick look at the numbers shows that this bill is not only futile, but completely cruel to the woman undergoing the procedure.
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If medical treatments are unduly burdensome or futile, even if their termination or refusal may foreseeably hasten death, the church deems them optional.
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Now, the FBI is trying to scrub that breached data from the face of the internet, no matter how futile that might be.
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Schmitt considered the whole idea of parliamentary democracy, with its naïve and romantic notion of accommodation among political rivals, as absurd and futile.
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When its song puts everyone to sleep, Jigglypuff hops off the stage and draws on everyone's faces as an expression of futile rage.
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"The Islamic Emirate shall pay no heed to such futile efforts and diplomatic obstructions being created for the intra-Afghan dialogue," he said.
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He has been badgering Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell all week for failing to repeal and replace Obamacare, a futile exercise in browbeating.
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"This Court must be able to craft a remedy with knowledge that it will not prove futile," Walker wrote in a ruling Thursday.
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But they should realize that their calls are futile so long as the government continues to target its opponents for repression and abuse.
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But having witnessed my father's suffering close up -- how, when treatments become futile, disease can become too much -- I developed a different perspective.
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The French, the British and the Dutch all wanted what Spain had and mounted attack after futile attack on the slave-built fortifications.
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He also stresses that timing the exact market top is a futile endeavor, since any subsequent gains will be wiped out eventually anyway.
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Do I fully expect our destructive and unsustainable culture to collapse within my lifetime, making any investment into the distant future entirely futile?
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Futile though it may be, I'm going to try to bring some civility to this town and help with your most troubling problems.
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Her repression, her transparent denial, her futile attempts to tap into the pain with me in the car, it all satisfied me somehow.
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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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In a futile attempt at self-preservation, she bolted for the hallway, but was hit in the leg by one of the bullets.
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Like if we were actually cognizant of all of our disappointments it would be too hard or futile to keep up life's charades?
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What's happening: But now his staff have largely given up on futile efforts to supervise him, leaving the president's schedule open and unstructured.
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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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A second attempt by police to turn back the migrants and force them to return to a border processing station was equally futile.
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But since admitting defeat and changing course has never been Hollywood's style, it looks as if they're doubling down on their futile efforts.
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"To try to get them to sign a piece of paper saying they've done all these bad things is futile," Mr. Pillsbury said.
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Feeling both futile and a bit like she'd grown out of the incel world, she ceased her involvement in the forums around 2000.
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"Eventually, these travel restrictions are going to just be absolutely futile," said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health.
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They are, perhaps, also a little futile: why even bother, this film seems to ask, if they're all going to fall apart anyway?
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Perhaps the men were in denial about how dire the situation was, their vigilance a futile effort to assert control over the unfathomable.
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Projecting any true home run distance before World War II is a largely futile exercise, a consequence of the lack of hard evidence.
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But all that anyone cared about were the diapers she said she wore on a long, futile drive the night of the assault.
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But when it comes to understanding the full picture of domestic terrorism, Congress and the American people are trapped in this futile exercise.
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Until then, he says, like many other relatives, they had clung on to the futile hope that perhaps there had been a mistake.
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No matter how futile the struggle to live may turn out to be, Beckett always revels in the very fact of that struggle.
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Democrats recoiled against the Nixon Administration and against "the best and the brightest" in Washington that championed and prosecuted this punishing, futile war.
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These proposals are a powerful response to the anti-government zealots who have hogtied Congress into inaction on anything besides futile, partisan investigations.
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But much more it is because the debate gets bogged down in the futile attempt to separate the deserving poor from the undeserving.
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Moderating the bill in hopes of appealing to Republicans is a futile effort, Doggett warned his colleagues at the Ways and Means markup.
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According to Live Science, the average cost of "futile treatment" in an intermediate care unit, which includes life support, is $4,004 a day.
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Businesses that are sued typically react by making their websites accessible, to avoid the expense of a long and possibly futile court battle.
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This makes the borders of the various groups impossible to pin down and renders modern debates about how particular people should identify futile.
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Autonomous vehicle advocates also argue that pointing out potential problems is futile because "progress" is inevitable and these issues will work themselves out.
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We all basically agree that even though the rationale for NBC might make sense on paper, trying to stop the GIFs is just futile.
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So here's my (undoubtedly futile) plea that everyone abandon high-minded pretenses and admit that the principle animating this fight is will to power.
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I promise I care deeply about plastic reduction and in the States tried hard to be responsible about it, but it feels futile here.
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But it would have been a lot sadder had she hung on and dragged us through a long, futile ordeal to keep her job.
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After their initial meeting, Gardner says Holmes came back once more with her patch pitch, and Gardner told her again that it was futile.
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Flake's stunt will have zero effect on President Trump or Mr. Mueller, and he's compromising a substantive principle to make a futile political gesture.
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"I saw Ganesh Acharya say something to Tanushree, and then the crew attempted a few futile shots of shooting this dance sequence," she said.
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Drawing a line between those two things can seem almost futile — unless, that is, a group is actually trying to be seen as terrorists.
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Since the start of the impeachment process, one of the prevalent Republican talking points is that the upcoming election renders impeachment a futile exercise.
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As relentless as it is futile, their assault on societal norms includes their own determination to negate their own sexuality and upend gender identities.
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So is the EU, which has struck a deal with Turkey over Syrian migrants and is mired in increasingly futile talks over Turkish membership.
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"A Futile and Stupid Gesture" (pictured, above), released on Netflix in January, focuses on the life of Doug Kenney, co-founder of National Lampoon.
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A challenge to Trump, in the form of either a primary or a third-party challenge, is unlikely to succeed but not necessarily futile.
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It is futile to even explain the original use of an airport, when there are no planes, no countries, no destinations to speak of.
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These edits are time-intensive, involving a lot of mental power to create something ultimately futile, something that destroys any sort of coherent narrative.
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But the Facebook experience will have been bad if it has taught us that resistance to corporate incursions on selfhood and citizenship is futile.
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Explaining the basic facts of climate science (again) is utterly futile if the intended audience rejects the authority of climate scientists and scientific institutions.
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So far, however, GOP control of Capitol Hill has resulted only in multiple futile votes to repeal Obamacare rather than to make it work.
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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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And finally, at the end of the meme rainbow, an ASMRtist has decided to reenact a futile emergency surgery to save the wounded gorilla.
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Trying to prune those one by one might be ultimately futile, though, if voice continues to find its way into more and more devices.
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Her husband, Pocatello physician Mark Mansfield, rushed to the scene and pounded on the dog's chest in a futile effort to revive the animal.
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Once you've made 20 minutes of futile effort, Fenn recommends leaving the room and doing something else until you feel like you can sleep.
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She claimed it had been five days since had been told her Internet would be connected and followed five "futile" calls to the company.
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Melody started trying to intervene, telling her husband she wished he wouldn't go on expeditions that were dangerous, but she knew it was futile.
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Many economists believe buying dollars is futile since the shekel's strength stems from factors that are not expected to go away for some time.
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Then Republicans wasted September on a futile attempt to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and tax reform got complicated real fast.
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While it's laudable that Congress is now stepping up to the plate, the effort will sadly almost certainly prove to be a futile one.
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But the individual straws can slide inward or outward along their futile tracks, slightly advancing or falling back, under the influence of incoming material.
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That's why experts on political messaging are split over Democrats' death rhetoric, and whether it's futile in terms of persuading conservatives to oppose Trumpcare.
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Instead, some Democrats ally with payday lenders and wrings hands over the deficit; others still denigrate single-payer health care as a futile dream.
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The president is undefeated in the last 14 Republican primaries, a winning streak that suggests opposition, at least within the GOP electorate, is futile.
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During his campaign, Trump argued that Obama's failure to use the specific words "radical Islamic terrorism" rendered the former president's battle against terrorism futile.
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The fractures suggest that she came down feet-first and then tumbled forward, holding out her hands in a futile hope of protecting herself.
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Piling on layers of wool and fleece is a futile attempt at staying warm without the thick, all-encompassing warmth of a good coat.
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"With each passing day, however, this task grows more futile, driving the Department's experienced and talented staff away in ever greater numbers," she wrote.
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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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TL;DR—your attempts at self-betterment are largely futile and you're probably doomed to continue on in your bad habits until you rot.
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That's why so much of the one-size-fits-all weight loss advice we're steeped in is so frustrating and futile for so many.
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He lags far behind in delegates and has angered some Republicans who see his candidacy as futile and fear it is helping Donald Trump.
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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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It doesn't mean that those efforts were futile, but it demonstrates the scale of the challenges to changing, let alone transforming, the status quo.
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Paperwork and the Will of Capital displays the dialectic of man's political power, that it is at once attractive and empty, necessary and futile.
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What went unrevealed that off-season was that Denver also made a futile run at Wade's longtime rival, Dirk Nowitzki of the Dallas Mavericks.
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I, on the other hand, realized I needed to loosen the lid on my futile hope that she is always my happy little girl.
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Yes, but: For every proponent of shutting 8chan down, there's another arguing that's futile since the board's users will keep hopping to new spaces.
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He is able to carry on a conversation amid the quietude of his studio, but feels it is futile to head out with friends.
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"It can feel a bit futile as an individual," said Liz Coll, the head of digital change at Consumers International, a consumer advocacy group.
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The way to compete with China on trade is neither sweeping tariffs nor the administration's futile insistence that China change its fundamental economic model.
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"It was futile because he kept sliding off of me, and I just could not let him lie on the disgusting floor," she wrote.
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Lifting the ban was rooted in a futile hope: that it was possible to pursue climate policy without hampering fossil fuel production and sales.
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But half a century later, the still futile quest to identify this "dark matter" is a burning question for both particle physics and astronomy.
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Jack Tatar, co-author of "Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond," pointed to another reason why constant phone checks are futile.
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"With each passing day, however, this task grows more futile, driving the Department's experienced and talented staff away in ever greater numbers," Shackelford added.
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But in Dark Fate, in which multiple characters once again sacrifice themselves for the greater good, all this effort begins to look comically futile.
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So I was expecting a dumbed-down version of the Lexus experience, a futile attempt to bring the brand closer to the millennial buyer.
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Aspirations of significant power in a political environment as one sided as that of South Africa can seem futile, but Maimane is still optimistic.
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Former administration officials say it's futile to try to talk Trump out of these theories with logic, data, common sense or even government intelligence.
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Speaking to the Freakonomics podcast, Cohn recalled futile attempts to dissuade Trump from applying the new tariffs, which helped launch a global trade war.
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Qatar has "preserved its sovereignty" following a "futile" diplomatic crisis that befell the country in 2017, the emir of the Gulf state said Friday.
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This is a term that counsels disaffection and despair — that paints the political process as futile and encourages supporters to assume any loss was unfair.
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Germany's efforts to break down Mexico seemed particularly futile — the more resources they committed to attack, the more they looked vulnerable to the counter-punch.
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From the blanket of mall snow laid at the foot of the plastic tree to the cinnamon scent wafting in the air, resistance is futile.
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GIGOT: All right, now, your majority leader, Mitch McConnell, I hear, is lukewarm on the idea of the amendment because he says it&aposs futile.
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Trying to predict what Trump will sign is a futile exercise, Pocan lamented, and a trap, he said, that his party falls into too often.
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Thomas seems to think there isn't, and it's why he regards every attempt at using the law as a tool to redress inequalities as futile.
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I mean, I feels like... It feels like it's almost not worthless, but like futile to speculate on... On what it is in any way.
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Judge John W. deGravelles's 112-page opinion, written after a six-day trial, detailed the futile efforts of abortion-clinic doctors to obtain admitting privileges.
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The title, Anthology: Somewhere Not Here, suggests displacement, a desire for movement, a dream state, but also a futile search for a sense of place.
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Horrifyingly, a fresh wave of whales made their way to the beach and rescuers formed a human chain in a futile attempt to block them.
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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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People who jumped into the process and got involved that hadn't before are feeling like it doesn't matter, like it's futile, and that is wrong.
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Now she has also agreed to participate in The Rachel Divide in what feels like another futile attempt at generating compassion and empathy from critics.
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The whole thing is more ridiculous (and disturbing) knowing what we know from last episode: The ceremony is futile because men are infertile, not women.
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Gulliver won't try to divine what weird and wonderful artifacts TSA officials will unearth next; it is generally futile to try to predict the future.
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Sorry, but arguing with the algorithm is futile: canned cranberry sauce is a tart surprise in a sea of umami and should not be underestimated.
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Jude Sabio, the lawyer who filed the ICC complaint last year, said Duterte's move was predictable, futile and designed to appeal to his support base.
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And now it seems the justices may be keen to reduce future futile efforts as they contemplate a year or more with a missing colleague.
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Nor is he the type of cerebral climate catastrophist who considers all action futile, opting instead to mutter into his wine glass about the anthropocene.
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As they approached the fence, they noticed that the next-door property was overrun by the plant: their own management efforts had been essentially futile.
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There is also an exception in the event the pregnancy puts a mother's life at risk, or in the case of a "medically futile" pregnancy.
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The Sharks hope to make their first appearance in the Cup finals and shake off a shorter but no less futile history of postseason disappointment.
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He described Mr. Christie's efforts to unite the party behind Mr. Trump as largely futile because of Mr. Trump's divisive approach to the presidential race.
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But it was a futile search: Kidney replacements for children haven't happened since April because the hospital doesn't have the resources to perform the operation.
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By trying to make many of the changes through regulatory agencies, the Trump administration may avoid a lengthy and perhaps futile battle with Democratic lawmakers.
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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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During the debate, it seemed somewhere between poignant and futile to hear the moderators invite undecided voters to ask about his plans for the nation.
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Penn's tweets also underscore the ultimately futile nature of hoping Maddow would break truly huge news that might actually change the state of the union.
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They describe futile searches for authenticity and originality, in which half-remembered commercials and blearily recalled photographs seem somehow more real than actual lived experience.
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The crew thought this was impossible, but unbeknownst to them, after months of futile negotiations at Panmunjom, Johnson's administration was preparing to do just that.
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No matter how futile it seemed to take on a multibillion-dollar corporation, local courts at least offered an opportunity to hold Equifax to account.
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It is "depoliticization," she wrote, that "destroys the element of political freedom in all activities"; depoliticization is what makes political action seem futile and moot.
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That observation is actually well-rooted in political theory: Revolutions happen when enough people stop blindly accepting that it's futile to resist the current regime.
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In the end, trying to pin them down is futile: Each is a virtuosic talent, so any tradition they take on jointly winds up transformed.
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It was hoped that the parties would lose and exhaust themselves in futile attempts to fight their way through the labyrinthine framework of the government.
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In Robert Burton's lifework, "The Anatomy of Melancholy," the 17th century author details the many forms of melancholy and our futile attempts to cure it.
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And every election is different, which makes efforts to graph the lessons of previous elections onto a current one a somewhat futile and fruitless exercise.
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There could be only one response, from the perspective of Milwaukee Bucks Coach Mike Budenholzer, to the historically futile shooting night Brook Lopez recently endured.
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He held his coat against the window — a futile guard from the intense heat — and put on Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" to calm himself.
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Dorothea Lange's 1936 portrait of Florence Owens Thompson and her daughters is so well-known that finding anything new to say about it seems futile.
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Detailing the life of a person from accounts nearing a century in the past can sometimes appear futile, especially when that life was purposefully vague.
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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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Faced with numerous real and undeniable atrocities, it was futile to postulate crimes that appeared to have no foundation and could be construed as propaganda.
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He held his coat against the window, a futile guard from the intense heat, and put on Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes" to calm himself.
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New Sentences — From "A Futile and Stupid Gesture" (Netflix, 2018, directed by David Wain), adapted from the book of the same name by Josh Karp.
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It is the team the Eagles measured themselves against as they ascended toward their first (futile) trip to the Super Bowl, after the 1980 season.
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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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This is what all managers do, of course; to some extent it is the whole point of the often futile exercise of the news conference.
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Before we reflexively expend our political will for action on more futile gun laws, people should consider a Texas program that has already proven effective.
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Dodd-Frank shows that that struggle is not necessarily a futile one: sometimes government really does regulate business, and not the other way around. ♦
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He does deserve credit for one thing: His incompetence and futile bullying seem to have led his own party to begin making deals without him.
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J.L.C. Because it seems to me, as Smiley says at the end of the book, that what happened then turns out to have been futile.
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But in announcing his plan, Mr. Trump deepened American involvement in a military mission that has bedeviled his predecessors and that he once called futile.
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Collins's only real option on the bench was Jose Reyes, who has been futile at the plate so far this season (203 for 62, .097).
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Still, Flores learned a lesson in 2016 when his season ended in September as he injured himself in a futile headfirst slide into home plate.
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Woodstock was supposed to make some money, but maintaining the entry gate proved futile, and on the first day everyone was allowed in for free.
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I did some google searches to see if I could find an Instagram customer service number, and as you might expect that search was futile.
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Former New York City mayor and media billionaire Mike Bloomberg has thus made a futile point over the years to combat the NRA's money machine.
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Initially, expecting this to be a tedious and probably futile inquiry, the committee's Republican leadership decided to let the panel's most junior minority member, Sen.
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While some bemoan the loss of history on the Peak, others think that trying to conserve the few remaining old houses there is ultimately futile.
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For two years the warring sides repeatedly came to Geneva, in a futile search for agreement on political reforms, a new constitution and new elections.
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RBS rushed through a shareholder motion in February to use its excess capital in this way but five months on, its haste has proven futile.
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To achieve their substantive objectives, Democrats compromise over the form of policy implementation in an (often futile) effort to appease Republicans and prevent internal dissension.
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In his 19803 book, The Great Illusion, Norman Angell, argued that war between the great powers was futile because of the economic damage it would cause.
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Barnes' lawyers argued that it would have been futile to demand that Cellino & Barnes sue Cellino & Cellino because the corporation's other shareholder, Ross Cellino, was conflicted.
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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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"Jennings, Elizabeth" — the title refers to Stan's futile attempts to turn up information on his neighbors in a computerized crime database — isn't the season's strongest episode.
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That continues this episode – only now, some characters entrenched within the system are beginning to perceive their hamster wheel of vengeance as a tiring, futile exercise.
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Something about the fictional woman's futile, mundane, and desperately hopeful gesture tapped into a sense of bewilderment so many felt deeply, but were incapable of expressing.
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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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The clockwork terror of futile life of knowing and failing, living and dying, is so powerful that I'm afraid I won't be able to transcend it.
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Today, their political naivete and emphasis on profit over principle could encode authoritarianism into our future, and meanwhile, the governments' punitive approach is late and futile.
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There has been a bitter debate lately about whether his strategy of trying to take out Mr. Rubio is futile and ultimately destructive to both men.
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The story then focuses on David's efforts to save his son's life, which range from futile attempts at reasoning to suspicion that boils over into rage.
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"This paper is not about dark matter," Anže Slosar, who leads his futile existence as a scientist and a bureaucrat at Brookhaven National Labs, told Gizmodo.
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The twist is that nothing you do makes it out into the real world; all your liking, re-Binking and swiping is completely, utterly, unavoidably futile.
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Now, though, the whole thing has been boiled down into two halves: the dreadful, perpetually memed news cycle and our increasingly futile attempts at escaping it.
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After a futile attempt to lure Spongebob back to civilization with a picnic, Patrick loses his mind and attempts to catch and kill his best friend.
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Shock and Awe-Shucks, Bless You Child Rambunctious Romping Futile Escapism Unhinged Showmanship Doubly Determined We hope you have as much fun celebrating as we do.
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Along with his CBS show, he recently released a memoir and is starring in the upcoming Netflix film, A Futile & Stupid Gesture, portraying actor Chevy Chase.
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Villechaize's father, a doctor and resistance fighter during WWII, was determined to find a solution, and subjected his son to futile – but painful — surgeries and procedures.
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And in his heroic, yet futile attempt to to try and save his already dead daughter, he suffers such bad third degree burns, he's rendered unconscious.
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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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The whole show is a metaphor for sex and power, and the idea of it all being related to some sort of God who's ultimately futile.
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Those (including this newspaper) who have argued that legalisation is better than prohibition will welcome the beginning of the end of the futile war on weed.
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Peru went through a futile currency reform in which the sol lost three zeros and was briefly renamed the inti, which promptly racked up more zeroes.
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The last way to do that is to fritter away their newly gotten power in a futile effort to distort the Constitution by impeaching President Trump.
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Joe ElliottAsheville, N.C. To the Editor: It's abundantly clear by now that it is futile for the Democrats to try to win over President Trump's supporters.
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The search for a full-on cure for AIDS is as long-standing as the search for a vaccine and has proved, so far, equally futile.
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It's a significantly more complicated game as it tries to wrestle with amphibious and airborne invasions, futile mountain campaigns, and grinding attritional campaigns amidst French hedgerows.
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One firefighter chief told ABC News he was aware fighting the flames was futile, but if they could save a few things, it was worth it.
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Democrats who view Schumer's proposal as futile or risky might consider another option, one with long-term potential to cause a rift in the conservative movement.
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With calls for external or self-regulation going futile, Paul Romer, the 2018 Nobel laureate in economics, has now argued for societies to tax social media.
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It was not an easy death; neither she nor her family was able to prevent painful, protracted and futile treatments her doctors hoped might save her.
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There's an act of unseemly but not felonious behavior, then the futile drawn-out withholding of information, and forever after the unwillingness to ever come clean.
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With a president as mercurial and unpredictable as Trump, divining meaning in what appears at times to be sheer impulsiveness is hard and perhaps futile work.
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But the president's signature isn't a given on anything, and the leader isn't going to go through with some futile act on something in the meantime.
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Given the power of digital technology to promote the interests of the corporations it serves, asking the company to work against its core programming seems futile.
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But instead of freeing ourselves from the suffocating 40-hour workweek, we've invented a whole universe of futile occupations that are professionally unsatisfying and spiritually empty.
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Tony's diatribe is pretty amazing ... like Jada Pinkett Smith, he's not calling for a boycott of the Oscars, but he's done with futile attempts at validation.
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This time there's a lot going on, however futile it all is: Patrick's endless taxi rides crisscrossing Manhattan and beyond in search of drugs and sex.
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"It's futile to try and predict what will happen right now and it's something only the studios can ultimately answer," Shawn Robbins, chief analyst at Boxoffice.
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And to continue to hammer Medicare for All with the abolition of private insurance feels like a futile exercise in campaigning and serving the American public.
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Gauff broke early in the second set and although Rybarikova tried every spin in her armory to try and break the youngster's rhythm, resistance proved futile.
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Randal Grichuk's throw from the outfield was accurate but futile: Catcher Luke Maile barely flicked his glove at the ball as Gregorius slid across the plate.
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In my mind, what's happened since Tywin's death has been a futile exercise in ending a subversive near-satire of a genre with a satisfying resolution.
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Trump claimed he had seen the folly in Bloomberg's effort from the start and warned that any effort by Bloomberg to salvage his reputation was futile.
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And I think many women drew the lesson that making accusations was futile, that much as in prosecutions of rape, women would be victimized twice over.
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Then again, perhaps it's futile to think I can have any impact at all, particularly if my reply evidences any of the annoyance that I feel.
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He quarreled with Afghan officials and warlords in an often-futile effort to make sure billions of dollars in American aid went to the right places.
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Shivam Vij, the deputy editor of HuffPost India, said in advance that protesting the killings was a futile exercise and that he would not pretend otherwise.
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And this has become a political problem for President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose efforts to counter the nation's relentless criminal groups have largely seemed futile.
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But Hannity demeaning the suffering of women who were subject to Weinstein's sexual misconduct in a futile effort to win a Twitter fight is truly despicable.
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She shared a video of her futile struggle to open the door to her truck as she slid this way and that on the icy path.
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The Commission's deputy head Frans Timmermans will brief the ministers on his so far futile efforts to persuade Warsaw to shift its position, the sources said.
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"While it's often futile to fight negative momentum — we feel very comfortable leaning [into Micron's stock]," analyst John Pitzer said in a note to clients Thursday.
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It showed a medic's frantic but futile efforts to save the life of a fallen Marine during a battle at Con Thien, near the demilitarized zone.
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While it's futile to tell the president to stop tweeting, but there has to be a way for him and his team to stay on message.
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Taking cues from Trouble at their most godless, the title track and "Tortured By Time" swing hammers despite, or because of, how futile life can feel.
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In Winters mind, life and all of its conventions are futile, so why not pursue everything with the same gravitas you would a family or job.
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Such a request typically comes after a three-judge panel has heard an appeal, but Mr. Qassim's lawyers sought to skip that step, deeming it futile.
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Those who favor permissive policies view reductions of firearm suicides and homicides as largely futile efforts because these outcomes will continue, largely uninhibited, through other means.
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Sexwale himself called further delay tactics in hope of an amicable solution "futile," but the will to make a ruling on settlement clubs simply isn't there.
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Resetting anything on its platform is largely futile, given Facebook retains whatever behavioral insights it already stripped off of your data (and fed to its profiling machinery).
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Still the Spaniard rolled on, soaking up Thiem's best shots, and the cliche beloved of numerous science fiction films and television series seemed appropriate: "Resistance is futile".
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After a year where we saw T.I. deliver a spoken word performance declaring social media activism futile and RZA rep "All Lives Matter," this should be refreshing.
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But even the best Space Invaders player is fated to end the game in defeat, another futile circuit in its samsara-like cycle of death and rebirth.
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In seemingly futile political situations, the satire bill has a distinct purpose: Even if it isn't able to change minds, it can at least capture national attention.
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But some suggested that the sheer force of winds, thick pine, fire and panic was a deadly combination making even the most well-executed evacuation plan futile.
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To this day, it remains a central conservative argument against climate action: China is the real problem and it isn't doing anything, so US action is futile.
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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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If we accept that everything is permissible and resistance is futile, then both of those things will come to be even more true than they are now.
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Some would argue that it's a futile task, and that only an integrated hardware-plus-software approach like Apple's can really be successful in the long run.
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Then came the retaliation: tired of Harris's futile attacks, the imposter booted Harris off his listings entirely, reporting him to Amazon for infringing on his own brand.
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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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Shelters were bulldozed while the displaced clung to their belongings, squatting on roofs during pounding hailstones in futile attempts to protect their only semblance of a home.
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The political potency of Medicaid was evident in Republicans' last-ditch and futile vote on a "skinny repeal" — a proposal that dropped most changes to Medicaid. Sen.
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And trying to outrun a whale, once it has latched onto a boat in the expectation of an easy meal, is futile, for whales are strong swimmers.
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Inside My Futile Quest to Count Does the white nationalist movement sometimes called "the alt-right," which can feel ubiquitous on social media, get too much attention?
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ISP customer service is uselessAs many readers found, calling your ISP to say that you want to opt out of having your data sold is infuriatingly futile.
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It's just one of the ways the film makes its broader thematic point that obsessing over the past is futile, and self-realization lies in the future.
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NEW YORK, Aug 19 (IFR) - Resistance is futile for some investors eyeing risky Triple C bonds as spreads and absolute returns continue to tighten across the board.
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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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As porn became more accessible online in the 80s, Mitchell explains, magazines pushed the spectacle to its limits, fighting the futile fight to keep people reading print.
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But a clash between Lujan and Jeffries (and potentially Clark) rather than futile challenges to Pelosi is likely going to determine the future of Democratic congressional leadership.
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Danny tells us Trump's wall plan is futile, because no matter how high it is ... he's not accounting for how far below ground it needs to go.
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An intervention is not "futile" simply because it fails to reverse or cure the underlying illness or because it will not restore the patient to "normal" functioning.
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Trump Jr.'s tweets appeared to be a futile attempt to get in front of imminent publication of the same email material by the New York Times.
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Given the diversity of drugs and their effects, many experts argue that trying to establish a ranking of the most dangerous drugs is a futile, misleading exercise.
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