But if you felt like Bandersnatch was an exercise in futility, imagine living in that futility.
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And there's some sort of process that's going on between the thought of futility and the futility of thought.
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The wealthy, she added, "know the futility" of the lottery.
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The key is to recognize the futility of it all.
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A flurry of emotions led to many moments of futility.
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For many investors, 2016 seems like a year of futility.
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The American embargo against Cuba is an exercise in futility.
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That futility, too, contributes to the "same old Sharks" stigma.
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The Sixers nearly set an N.B.A. futility record last season.
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But the Dodgers' futility matched theirs late into the game.
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The futility of the entire endeavor borders on the absurd.
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Do you ever get frustrated by a sense of futility?
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But there is a sense of futility underlying their conversation.
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The pope is simply engaging in an exercise in futility.
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It is, at its essence, a game of boundless futility.
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Trump seems to sense the futility of the GOP effort.
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Gregorius hit fourth, right behind Stanton, who brushed off his futility.
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Is it the futility of their task, to conquer the ocean?
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The author captures well a sense of futility among Western forces.
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Suffice it to say this will be an exercise in futility.
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This twist gives the kids' forced separation a degree of futility.
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Really interesting commentary on the futility of existence and our mortality.
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Specialization has bred feelings of isolation, futility, and confusion in individuals.
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Still, we think it captures the fundamental futility of it all.
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Maybe that's not futility after all—just a life lived fully.
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There is a kind of hope it seems, even in futility.
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Because of the futility of internal oversight mechanisms, Gallagher and Drs.
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Trying to escape the IRS is usually an exercise in futility.
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The futility of it all finally forced her out of government.
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But nothing interrupts the depressive continuity, the air of elegant futility.
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Love and hatred, beauty and suffering, purpose and futility, all intertwined.
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Which is not to say that pessimism and futility are the only
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Matta was hopeful the futility would continue against the Buckeyes in Madison.
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And if we give into that futility then we give into it.
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Getting upset over misfired advertising is almost always an exercise in futility.
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Castillo seemed to recognize the futility of the situation during Zambada's sentencing.
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"Futility," was published in 1898, 14 years before the Titanic set sail.
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I get that these daily briefings are an exercise in daily futility.
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To some, the Mariners' futility has become a part of their appeal.
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As I lied in bed, I no longer felt rage, just futility.
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Yet the eye test alone doesn't quite capture the Scarlet Knights' futility.
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The futility analysis calculated its likelihood of success as one in six.
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Yet among policymakers and operators alike, the sense of futility is palpable.
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The Saints are the N.F.L.'s champions, after 42 seasons of futility.
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In the absence of both, audiobooks will be an exercise in futility.
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Other major commuter railroads did not approach such a level of futility.
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The rest of the night was an exercise in futility against Kluber.
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The Bengals, fortunately, get a No. 1 draft pick for their futility.
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But Mexico itself is a testament to the futility of gun laws.
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This, as our team of experts notes, is an exercise in futility.
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Throughout the book, he actually seems to recognize the futility of his quest.
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Merger ends with our protagonist trying to upgrade once again, with assured futility.
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When a patient or family pushes back, physicians cry futility or moral distress.
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Looking back, it feels like a fitting moniker for an exercise in futility.
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And gaming with this unplugged is more or less an exercise in futility.
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However, her words of futility are incredibly problematic at a time like this.
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Protesters are angered by the realization of this futility, and their resulting impotence.
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His time in the patrol exposes the futility of many of its rules.
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Making a Murderer is an exercise in futility, a modern Book of Job.
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The futility is that we lose no matter what in the current system.
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So, after several weeks, I allowed the futility of it to overtake me.
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The futility of the coal jobs slogans was clear well before the election.
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Take what you will from that very obvious metaphor for humanity's own futility.
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His effort to prop up coal is well-documented, as is its futility.
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Baghdadi's death demonstrates effectiveness of targeted raids—and the futility of endless occupations.
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After so many decades of futility, the city was awash in championship glory.
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The Browns' futility since the franchise's resurrection in 1999 has been well documented.
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We must all start with recognizing the futility and destructive nature of war.
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"More meetings and more futility all the time," another wrote in his diary.
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There is the sense of futility and alienation that has depressed black turnout.
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Paying taxes to sustain a failing system is an exercise in institutional futility.
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Something must be done to break out of this costly cycle of futility.
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We are going to reject Hillary Clinton's politics of fear, futility, and incompetence.
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This scene illustrates the futility of negotiating with white people educated in tyranny.
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My teen years were defined by grunge music and a sense of futility.
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The old problem of "mulattos" and "quadroons" manifested the futility of these considerations.
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They also said plaintiffs hadn't shown demand futility on the Section 14 claim.
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The recent futility on the field was matched only by the dysfunction off it.
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Because through her (more mature) eyes, I suddenly saw the inherent futility of it.
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Senior guard Zak Showalter's 3-pointer ended the futility with 3:04 to go.
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More than anything, Viber offers a powerful example of the futility of legislating encryption.
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Prophets are not pragmatists, and the fog of futility often hangs over their complaints.
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Few things express the idea of the futility of war better than "Lili Marlene".
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Perhaps this futility is the point; if so, it is a deeply dissatisfying one.
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Chicago's offensive futility actually extended further than the inclement weather that interrupted the schedule.
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I also began to think about the sheer waste and futility of drug prosecution.
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Moments of futility like that comprise at least half of this strange little show.
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"Blair Witch," directed by Adam Wingard, is a movie about the futility of filmmaking.
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Texas Tech didn't take full advantage of the Longhorns' futility in the first half.
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Grassley said nominating a new justice would be an exercise in futility for Obama.
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There is hope, even now, but that hope is couched in decades of futility.
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When faced with such futility, the Hero can react in a number of ways.
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Perhaps, after seven decades of futility, the Indians are just destined to fall short.
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It's an inside joke— inside my mind I laugh at the futility of all.
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There are fewer bank branches, and locating ATMs is often an exercise in futility.
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But for some, even the reduced training is seen as an exercise in futility.
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But their long drive ended in futility: The Canadians flagged the car at the border.
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Maybe he realized the futility of his project, the inherent, unbrookable whiteness of the brand.
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After 17 years of futility, Buffalo was already an unattractive destination for potential free agents.
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They are rooted to the ground, their striving made more poignant by its obvious futility.
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And with that, we close the Book of Futility and let us all say, amen.
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But the real lesson here concerns the futility of trying to time the market, right?
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There was a certain tragic beauty in the futility of Lucas Duda in those years.
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Is it gauche to acknowledge the futility of this review before it begins in earnest?
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Depending on the outcome, the study could be stopped either for futility or overwhelming efficacy.
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The New York Times headline described a game of futility: Giants, Lions in Scoreless Tie.
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Gardner's futility became an outlet for the fans' frustration in the Yankees' 303-0 loss.
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For Cain, a life of suffering and futility: And he said, What hast thou done?
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After Corker unveiled the legislation, McConnell called it an "exercise in futility" on Wednesday night.
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Futility makes the act of voting, discussing and even thinking about the election feel bad.
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The whole idea of "futility" is to stop trials that seem almost certain to fail.
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Sometimes they stopped talking during our conversations because they recognized the futility of it all.
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They remain without a World Series title since 1948, an unmatched active stretch of futility.
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And over his final four seasons, they were 117-211, setting various records for futility.
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The millennial core of Buttigieg's campaign is versed in the futility of Twitter flame wars.
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Sufferers experience hypersomnia, low mood, and a pervasive sense of futility during the bleaker months.
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It evokes the futility of trying to police such a huge space with limited resources.
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The movie is accidentally about the futility of carrying on Men in Black business as usual.
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Do you try to put these items back together, or is that an exercise in futility?
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Instead, we're left with an exercise in total futility that finds only meaninglessness in the pain.
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Click here to view original GIFGrowing up, blowing bubbles was an endlessly frustrating exercise in futility.
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The actress said she was "paralyzed in feelings of futility" after learning of the pay disparity.
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After years of futility, Republicans finally unveiled a program that would eliminate health insurance for millions.
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The actress added she was "paralyzed in feelings of futility" after learning of the pay disparity.
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For a more promising prognosis, our president must first acknowledge the futility of undiminished geopolitical struggle.
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And that one negative outcome they all share certifies their collective futility: my son remains incarcerated.
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It's no wonder that many teachers feel demoralized by the futility of this wrong-headed approach.
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The BBC series "Detectorists" is a mournful comedy, a sneakily funny celebration of futility and stasis.
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If you are a congressional Republican, the feeling is somewhere between utter frustration and total futility.
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Heading into the Hanoi Summit, all signs indicated Trump recognized the futility of this old approach.
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Then a few months later, the futility and lack of support winnow out a second batch.
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The Salisbury attack just weeks later underscored the futility of the outreach effort, those experts said.
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Pinning down the album's Christmas cookie recipe's origins turned out to be an exercise in futility.
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Since the Kennedy administration, government officials have repeatedly explained the futility of protecting the civilian population.
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He is consumed by the futility of existence, but he also knows he must exact revenge.
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It was the latest addition to a string of futility that thumbs its nose at probability.
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The difference now is that after decades of futility, their divisional rivals in Chicago are thriving.
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In his grand playoff unveiling, Patrick Lavon Mahomes II purged a quarter-century of Arrowhead futility.
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What lovely work "titivate" — "to preen" — does there, with its light aura of fussiness and futility.
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After the elections, a red-state liberal ponders futility — and against all odds, arrives at hope.
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Between episodes of professional breakdown, he's given to rueful inner monologues on the theme of futility.
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The unhappiness of China's growing middle class illustrates the futility of equating material success with happiness.
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I had thought the futility of war might be grasped by most American politicians by now.
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After all of the years of playoff futility, this season is the redshirt senior's last chance.
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Ben-Gurion repeated this story again and again as proof of the futility of seeking agreement.
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But this ideological exercise in futility has already done great damage to the health care system.
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Although he did not join the long-ball parade, Reyes ended his own stretch of futility.
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But the United States Food and Drug Administration demonstrates the futility of a "fortress America" approach.
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The futility of negotiating with tyranny The film begins with the tactics of negotiation and waiting.
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Yet, as blazingly alive as these artistic and political voices were, they were shadowed by futility.
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The other, which I'm drawn to by my own obsession with decadence, would emphasize futility instead.
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It would sure be a big help to them not to have to prove demand futility.
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In China, evading the watchful eyes of the government sometimes feels like an exercise in futility.
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The Knicks, though, are only the most extreme example of New York City's consistent sports futility.
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But the numbers also highlight the futility of these criminal prosecutions from a public safety standpoint.
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Performed by British and Argentinian veterans, Minefield excavates the unsettling violence and futility of the 1982 war.
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To underscore the futility of blanket labels, I'll answer those questions with a few of my own.
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Women live in a society that breeds into them an inherent knowledge of the futility of reporting.
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I have enough futility in my life, don't need another digital boulder to push up a mountainside.
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David Eckard creates performance objects, monologues, and sculptures, always with a wink toward the theater of futility.
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The power of the boy's epiphany lies not only in its clarity, but also in its futility.
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The "neutralisation" of Mr Paddar—in the words of a police spokesman—symbolised the futility of insurrection.
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" This sense of futility propagates bad player behavior because a reporting player may go "Well, screw it.
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Data from the Energy Information Administration would enrich the public's understanding of the futility of those policies.
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It's a bit battered now but it is a reminder of the futility and waste of war.
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Nonfarm payrolls increased just 151,000 for the month, extending the futility August has experienced over the years.
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I suspect that such a review would just have revealed the futility of the project — here's why.
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After several years of futility, the Nationals won 53 games and the N.L. East title in 2012.
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It contains cascading bursts of fast notes poignantly curtailed, as if to underline the futility of flight.
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Even a buoyant comedy like The Big Lebowski has an opacity to it, a sense of futility.
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To demonstrate to potential homeowners the futility of renting, Fred wallpapered a model home in rent receipts.
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That's a record of futility unmatched in the annals of Texas professional, college and high school football.
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Voltaire had already, well back in 1740, undertaken something similar with Frederick of Prussia, with predictable futility.
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She made a gesture of apologetic futility that indicated the lack of open/shut functionality re: windows.
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Those are the times when I remember the hatred directed toward me, and the futility kicks in.
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It was pointless — a point that Kaine himself made about an hour into this exercise in futility.
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After every effort toward making it work, something happens to drive home the futility of it all.
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I'm partial to beautiful, heartbreaking sentences about loss and about the ultimate futility of the human condition.
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The scientific futility and dubious ethical status of the enterprise are two sides of the same coin.
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Against this backdrop, El Chapo's trial is exposing the utter futility of fighting the war on drugs.
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Now, with legislative activity at a near-standstill, it is moribund, a portrait of decay and futility.
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So consider two examples which reveal the impact on the victims and the futility of the policy.
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He slips the message into a bottle and tosses it into the river, this hero of futility.
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The era of futility for British women has not lasted nearly as long, at least not yet.
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At the end of the LOC's fraying bibliographic chain, Surplus Books inspires a certain feeling of futility.
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Photo: GettyAs it goes, the futility of a feature is painfully apparent when someone decides to exploit it.
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In March, the firm announced that aducanumab had failed the futility test and both trials would therefore end.
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It resembled pedaling a bicycle backwards, the agony and futility, and finally, the entry into another world altogether.
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Americans' feelings of hopelessness and futility in the face of gun violence have been confirmed time and again.
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I wanted to write intelligent, biting attacks that made him realize the futility and stupidity of his endeavor.
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It understandably can just seem like an exercise in futility to try to raise any funding at all.
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One of the themes in this book is the sort of futility of trying to warn about dangers.
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They missed their final nine field-goal attempts, a stretch of futility that included seven errant 3-pointers.
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In an Instagram post, Carlson later expressed her feelings of desperation and futility in front of such tragedy.
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If such recruits cannot be identified, it would be an exercise in futility simply to add another body.
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Stationed near the salt flats of Lake Assal, without imminent assignment, they alternate between aggression and existential futility.
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Yet as they have done for much of the season, the Mets stumbled down a path of futility.
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If the Taliban fail to partake in such steps, then the futility of additional efforts will be clear.
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As she tosses them one by one, she powerfully evokes a sense of anger, frustration, and ultimate futility.
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It also once again demonstrates the futility of trying to stop drugs by cutting certain sources of supply.
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Yet Epstein, the Cubs' president for baseball operations, is smart enough to understand the futility of predicting October.
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It's full of slapstick comedy, despite gut-clenching depictions of dope sickness, the futility of war and PTSD.
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Tharoor's themes are complex, his insights philosophical and his characters haunted by longing and the sting of futility.
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I spent several years involved on the Palestinian side of the negotiations and can attest to their futility.
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For her, the episode was a forceful reminder of the costs — and, she said, the futility — of dissent.
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They knew the futility of John Kerry's many Mideast peace efforts because they were on those journeys, too.
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But the moment went viral on social media, as a snapshot of the apparent futility of Bush's campaign.
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Of course, the Chicago Cubs' World Series championship in 2016 is famous for ending 108 years of futility.
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That's ten years of futility punctuated by a brutal 2007-313 stretch where they failed to climb above 30th.
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Trump's attacks create a spectacle but after a while all the fighting becomes tedious and we recognize its futility.
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Lance has called the proposal an "exercise in futility" because it has little chance of getting through the Senate.
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America's Arab allies have learned the hard way that negotiating with Iran without leverage is an exercise in futility.
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This settlement may bring some awareness to the futility of gun control regulations that only disarm the law-abiding.
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A record for Major League Baseball futility will be the undoing of manager Buck Showalter with the Baltimore Orioles.
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Letter From America Democrats began their most recent era of presidential futility during Hillary Clinton's senior year of college.
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The underlying theme of all Nathan for You episodes is the futility of resisting corporate capitalism in American society.
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Still, thanks to Indiana's futility, and standout seasons by several NBA players, George didn't merit being on those lists.
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Indeed, other than a bumptious monologue about the futility of all human endeavour, the film has almost no dialogue.
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According to TIME, there's an eerie number of similarities between the ship's sinking in "Futility" and the Titanic IRL.
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She keeps score of every game and lauds Cubs fans for weathering more than a century of postseason futility.
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Afterward, Kerr channeled the former tennis player Vitas Gerulaitis, who had his own stretch of futility against Jimmy Connors.
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After two years at Boston College, though, Rahon had had enough — enough of the losing, enough of the futility.
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And when we are in a state of futility, where all our actions detract from our ability to thrive.
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Which is a testament to my dad's personality, but it also points out the futility of this mass surveillance.
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Lillard's dunk here is THE picture of the overwhelming futility that the NBA is experiencing in the Warriors era.
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Last month, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell called the legislation an "exercise in futility" because of the likely veto.
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A "futility analysis" had shown that aducanumab, being studied in more than 3,200 people worldwide, would not prove effective.
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Halts for futility thus "increase the risk of misinterpretation," including the false conclusion that an effective treatment is not.
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In January, after months of futility and infighting, the commission folded, having made no findings and issued no recommendations.
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The years of futility, gone on for so long that it seemed like they might never end, were over.
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The crown prince turned to Mr. Putin and threw his hands in the air in a gesture of futility.
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Senate Republicans shrugging at Trump's withdrawal from Syria demonstrates the futility of waiting for them to vote their conscience.
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His hard-line pro-Israel supporters console themselves that Mr. Trump will soon recognize the futility of this undertaking.
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No other pro team in New York can match such extended futility, not even the Knicks or the Jets.
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Fighting a subpoena is an exercise in futility in most instances because the Supreme Court found in Braswell v.
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Never mind that the quest to uncover specific intelligence gene(s) has proven to be an exercise in futility.
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Beyond that, there's the eternal futility of attempts to reconcile ethical right and wrong with aesthetic good and bad.
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If the attorney general would look to the Prohibition years, he might see the futility of crusading against marijuana.
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The loose rock made climbing difficult and I thought that this might turn into an exercise in journalistic futility.
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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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As it turns to weeping they rush out of the auditorium and I am left with my own futility.
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Filled with poverty, futility and angry white men, "Donnybrook" has feet of lead and not much of a brain.
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But what once looked to be a launchpad for the Cruz campaign could now come to signal its ultimate futility.
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" Unlike the felt impact of OITNB, Kerman came away from watching Breaking Bad with "a sense of futility and hopelessness.
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But using crowd size as a one-to-one indicator that a candidate has support is an exercise in futility.
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The fact that the shooting article has become evergreen content speaks to the sense of futility that inspired its inception.
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There's a futility in hearing and seeing a person when you're constantly using them to prop up versions of yourself.
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This, I think, doesn't speak to Call of Duty's ability to predict the future, but the futility of these raids.
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Even by the wheel-spinning standards of Brexit, there was something remarkable about the circular futility of events on Friday.
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For mega cities like DC or LA, which have already made their bed, this may be an exercise in futility.
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The past two decades since Oslo have shown the futility of negotiating a quick resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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However, in each situation, next to the dry, dark humor is a futility or sadness that is never quite addressed.
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While the Cubs have been embraced for their futility, there has been nothing poetic or romantic about Cleveland's loser image.
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Three Presidents' Trophies and zero trips beyond the second round of the postseason is an unprecedented run of playoff futility.
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It's a simple subversion of video games' oldest trope, the retry, which gracefully implies the futility and grotesqueness of war.
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SVP: Speculating about the number of IPO's and acquisitions that will take place in 2016 is an exercise in futility.
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Charity is a complicated thing; philosophy and fiction are strewn with questions about the futility and harm of supposed selflessness.
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Bodies, too, malfunction; one doctor muses about the futility of cures, since all patients are ultimately destined for more illness.
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Like the work of many of that era—Thomas Mann, Arthur Schnitzler—Jaeggy's fiction is haunted by futility and loss.
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Their futility, of course, pales next to that of the Cubs, who have not won a World Series since 21984.
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Peel back the layers of history, however, and another franchise and city have also endured longstanding heartbreak and playoff futility.
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Although many of these initiatives have been framed in terms of "countering China," there is a futility in this approach.
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A novella called "Futility" that was published 14 years before the Titanic set sail seemed to have predicted the disaster.
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For far too long, for far too many administrations, U.S. trade law enforcement largely has been an exercise in futility.
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Yet Dr. Ljungqvist is confronted with the apparent futility of his efforts to put an end to state-sponsored doping.
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When we laugh at his death, perhaps we are laughing at our own futility, in the face of random destruction.
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The White Sox have endured six losing seasons in a row, their longest stretch of futility since 20173 to 1950.
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That was 18 straight games of futility against Golden State, the longest active losing streak by one team against another.
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The extraordinary run of futility raises an obvious question: Why are the Orioles still putting Davis out in the field?
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His 17 months in office have in fact been an exercise in futility for the art-of-the-deal president.
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The ending, in which everyone in the makeshift Syria hospital is killed, ultimately makes this story a lesson in futility.
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Amid this long stretch of futility, Anthony underwent knee surgery in February 2015 and missed the remainder of that season.
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That record of futility stands out in contrast to what O'Brien, 48, has achieved at the Breeders' Cup World Championships.
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As first told by King and Hill, In the Tall Grass is a chilling meditation on the futility of existence.
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They're 10-28 against Texas, a string of futility that has probably kept them from winning the American League West.
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There are some things that are exercises in futility, some things I've gotten obsessed with and can't let them go.
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Since Stein got only 2703,463 votes in Michigan to Trump's 2,279,543, this would seem like an exercise in … um, futility?
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If he was irredeemably stonewalled, such that the pursuit itself was an exercise in futility, he should have revealed that.
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It was a brief moment in an afternoon of ill-tempered futility exemplified by a clash between Lewandowski and Rep.
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Futility is less the theme of "The Wild Pear Tree" than the soil from which its delicate narrative tendrils sprout.
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Northwesternhas never played in the NCAA Tournament and unless it wins the Big Tentournament, the Wildcats' streak of futility will continue.
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It's our work I said and I teetered at the edge of the stage nearly falling into scraped-face futility. Dogs.
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The trials were halted because results of a futility analysis found they were unlikely to meet their primary goals at completion.
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At the very least, your cat will almost certainly appreciate the big ring as a metaphor for the futility of life.
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The Bulls closed the home portion of their schedule with a 9-32 record, setting a franchise record for home futility.
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It'd be pointless to try to convince them to stop, whether by illustrating the futility or explaining Spotify's Terms of Service.
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Nonfarm payrolls increased just 151,000 for the month, below the expected 180,000, extending the futility August has experienced over the years.
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There was obviously a chance you could have a futility analysis in 2019, but investors thought we were past that point.
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He continues to monopolize the spotlight to secure reelection, even though he won't convince Trump's wall supporters of the wall's futility.
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In a recent op-ed, the Manhattan Institute's Robert Bryce points out that simple math demonstrates the futility of this effort.
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Despite these strong examples of repair, "rigged" still captures a widespread sense of futility — which Trump milks for his own gain.
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When questioned about justification, the EPA typically defaults to a moral imperative to supplant fossil fuels regardless of costs or futility.
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Directed by Srda Vasiljevic, this is a Dust Bowl tale about sin, guilt and the futility of trying to flee them.
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They are relentless invaders, and tracking their spread has proven to be an exercise in futility, at least for human observers.
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In some ways, he said, the team's recent stretch of futility has been even more trying for him than last season.
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Futility has been the story of this season for EnVyUs, who won the last RLCS championship in June as Northern Gaming.
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If they don't win a trophy in France in the coming month, the English will complete a half century of futility.
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They're often filled with humility, and a recurring theme is not about the know-it-all, but about failure and futility.
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Whenever you express concern, your friend mumbles something incoherent about big pharma, big vision, and the futility of believing medical professionals.
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Despite the technology's futility in the end, it presaged an array of features and user experiences characteristic of the modern web.
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Ortiz led the Red Sox to three World Series championships — including, in 2004, their first title after 86 years of futility.
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Still, the futility of the effort promises to inspire a change in the culture of behavioral science in the coming decades.
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Universal Paperclips demonstrates both the grandeur and the futility of this mentality by taking it as far as it can go.
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The victory, a five-game thriller with the Astros, unburdened a roster that had come to be defined by October futility.
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Two works in the show, neither of them notably original, do a lot to both dramatize and counter art's worldly futility.
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A key starting place is to recognize the futility of trying to get China to significantly change its internal economic model.
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Obsolescence is the dark side of fashion, which, accordingly, has always (and often intentionally) blurred the line between narcissism and futility.
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The futility of Apple's overreach into fictional worlds is also a contradiction to some of its real and publicly visible customers.
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On Sunday, he will make it his personal business to ensure that streak of futility continues for at least another year.
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LIZ You've described "You Go Away and I Don't Mind," from the new album, as being about the futility of fame.
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A recent referendum measure that gave Mr. Erdogan sweeping new powers highlighted the futility of following the conventional tactics of opposition.
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There was something in that image that struck me: it was an act of hope, of devotion, of sorrow, of futility.
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Many of them see the limits posed by human nature, and recognize that utopia has always veered between evil and futility.
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In a 2017 Wired story about the futility of minimalist devices, David Pierce identified it as the "this one thing" problem.
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So if you've ever wanted to go forth and capture the innate futility of life on camera, now's your big moment.
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Raised hands in the center symbolize a united protest against the fascist Italian dictator, but the falling iron prison bars express futility.
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Because finding the three sole non-cropped sweaters in a store full of a hundred sweaters quickly becomes an exercise in futility.
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But for now, it's hard to look at any third party smartwatch like the Dagadam as anything but an exercise in futility.
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And given the Cubs' historic futility, it would take quite a prolonged dynasty for the novelty of their success to wear off.
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Recently it's paved the way for something that transcends Bee Movie—something absurd, an artful and heroic exercise of futility and devotion.
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Frustration, failure, and futility dog her: "All these fragments rend me/Impure dialogue/A desperate expulsion from verbal matter" ("A Musical Hell").
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Trying to pilot a flying toy with a touchscreen is an act of futility, physical controllers are always the way to go.
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But if the past 18 months have taught us anything, it's that making predictions in this election is an exercise in futility.
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The efforts, despite being much more expansive, matched the futility that Japan has experienced from trying multiple programs since the early 1990s.
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"I think this is just silly, and the futility of the attempt to convince somebody of this is absolutely obvious," he said.
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Tracing perfect circles in doomed and elegant futility may be their lot; for Redick, it will certainly look a lot like that.
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The decision was based on a so-called "futility analysis" of aducanumab data, which revealed the trials had little hope of succeeding.
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He understood its power and the futility of struggling against it, and even his greatest lyrical glories were given some temporal anchor.
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Repealing Obamacare is a staple of Republican political messaging and for years has been a source of GOP frustration, if not futility.
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Importantly, Alomar does not denigrate his character for their wrongheadedness; instead, he casts the quest as noble, in spite of its futility.
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Their latest release, the Futility EP, mixes brutal grind and pounding, contorted noise rock with Valentine's half-feral snarls and guttural invocations.
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Otherwise, however, one is left with little beyond the crushing, overwhelming sense of futility that comes with all news of this ilk.
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They are the winners in these elections that so many considered a further example of the futility and selfishness of their politicians.
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Not only is that an exercise in futility as far as governance goes; it is also not what most ordinary voters want.
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So even if the Cubs fail in this year's playoffs, they have a way to go before they set the futility record.
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However, this doesn't mean that using sanctions against North Korea, as part of a wider diplomatic effort, is an exercise in futility.
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Numberplay This week's challenge was suggested by Greg Ross, creator and curator of the Futility Closet, the online miscellany of compendious amusements.
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Both Perry and the parents grapple with the futility of searching for ways to to save children who have already been lost.
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The Jacksonville Jaguars haven't been around long, and a deeply depressing stretch of futility has already eroded memories of some incredible games.
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And so must we, with a proven strategy of resilience and recovery that over the long haul, proves the futility of terror.
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The first uplifting results seem worth unveiling this week, a week otherwise filled with sadness, mourning and a sense of national futility.
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Their consecutive losses, escalating in futility and desperation, were significant, creating drama and storylines that transcended the constraints of any individual game.
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In her new songs, she struggles with a breakup, with loneliness, with worry and depression and with a general sense of futility.
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The many peripheral themes intelligently raised — racism, alienation, the futility of creativity — are wiped out as the narrative reshuffles itself and restarts.
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He said that he was not conjuring a place on a map but a state of mind: the futility of good intentions.
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Welcoming all earnest attempts at perfect bedazzlement, and embracing, with fanfare, the effort's futility, Ms. Minter insists only on taking the risk.
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Braves snap nine-game slide to start season MIAMI — The Atlanta Braves won't have to worry about a connection with historic futility.
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"People often remark on the futility of marching, but I was raised by a family who marched steadfast and often," she said.
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And that's why Atticus Finch, who did his righteous duty in the face of futility, is the most respected lawyer in America.
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Still, McConnell has said he will not take up the bill on its own, calling it an "exercise in futility" last month.
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The spectacle of utter futility was if anything more infuriating than the impasse on how to stem the rash of mass shootings.
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If you're grappling with meaning in a meaningless universe, is your art itself a coping mechanism or a response to the futility?
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Battle scenes, in which many skeletons are tightly arranged in the frame with bugles and cannons, apparently allude to the futility of war.
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"The fact that BAN2401 study did not stop for futility suggests some benefits are being observed," RBC Capital Markets analyst Brian Abrahams said.
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Overwhelmed by the numbers and dismayed by the futility of the cull, Berlin wildlife commissioner Derk Ehlert instead turned to the private sector.
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Nearer the truth is the picture portrayed in "Traffic", a recent film that vividly demonstrated the futility of fighting supply and ignoring demand.
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It's a Revenge of the Nerds evolution that recognizes the futility of vengeance, and a feminist-nerd story that recognizes its characters' privilege.
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The last 16 years of politics in this country have been a long exercise in near-total futility for both Democrats and Republicans.
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It also highlights the futility of the 14-day rule, in a new era where embryos can be grown past that artificial deadline.
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Over the course of the 19th century and 20th centuries, these older senses of vanity, of the vain futility of life, fell away.
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Fighting gun control proponents, and those who would seek to undo constitutional protections on gun ownership, are an exercise in futility, they said.
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It was a lesson in futility and I'd much rather watch Michelle Visage get corn surgery than have to go through it again.
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Among other things, the editorial illustrates the futility anyone attempting to satisfy the critics, as well as the critics' own lack of transparency.
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The Bulls (22-59) closed the home portion of their schedule with a 61.53-32 record, setting a franchise record for home futility.
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I naively assumed that these lessons from war and ones from history books would teach us the true futility of walls and barriers.
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The inspector general's report quotes an unnamed FBI agent who used his official phone to vent with colleagues about the probe's apparent futility.
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"It doesn't have to be this way," Senator Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, said about the legislative futility showcased in Monday's tableaus.
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"We cannot allow Stalin, a communist, to tarnish the good name of socialism," he says, unaware of the futility of such a battle.
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The success of the 2004 Red Sox, who broke an 86-year streak of futility, seemed to add another component to his vision.
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And it would almost certainly become an exercise in futility and frustration, a suck on American resources and a distraction from American defense.
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The wins don't much matter anymore; another year of futility is coming to a close, and the missed opportunities can't be un-missed.
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In Memphis, an entrenched legal culture has made bankruptcy a boon for attorneys while miring clients like Miller in a cycle of futility.
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What looked like a near-certain end to years of postseason futility has now become a terrifying, chest-heaving sprint to the finish.
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Dozens of confidants implored Snyder not to take over what Sports Illustrated called Futility U, certain that it was a coaching dead end.
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Perhaps more than any other object of aesthetic obsession, flowers expose the futility of trying to contain beauty in a single theoretical framework.
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But that says more for the Kings' offensive futility than his prowess; Kovalchuk has not recorded a point in his last nine games.
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Likewise, Del Rey's music indulges in melodramatic archetypes of women by amplifying concepts of femininity and futility to the point of high camp.
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Coach Hue Jackson, who has presided over the last two-plus seasons of futility, was not ready to declare victory after a tie.
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King's death (like that of Malcolm X only a few years earlier) radicalized some activists who saw futility in his strategy of nonviolence.
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It's a complete exercise in futility, because it has zero chance of passing the Senate — and near-zero chance of passing the House.
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The monotony of the counting, the silence of the other passengers, the lack of response, the futility — the nothingness is building into something.
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More than anything, it drove home the futility of the tortured, macabre exercises the court engages in whenever it deals with capital punishment.
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But his politics are not static; he was ahead of President Barack Obama on marriage equality and the futility of the Afghan war.
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It's not merely Pippa's gender identity and physical appearance that Rowling is keen to point out, it is also her foolishness and futility.
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There's something kind of magical about his thinking, recognizing the futility of life seems to have freed him rather than spurred existential dread.
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What a shame our leaders did not respond to the futility of that war earlier and spare the lives of thousands of troops.
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Justice Chimes' status quo orders, they said, did not preclude the trademark suit, and they'd demonstrated the futility of demanding action from Ross Cellino.
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He raged at the futility of it all: he was mouthing off about society in general, the unemployed, the republican movement, his first wife.
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And in his own stadium, with a team of players as expensive as any on earth, the futility of that predicament clearly tortures him.
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Abandoning the instruments of soft power is an exercise in futility for a President who seeks to reduce America's commitments while maintaining its leverage.
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It's like he's gathered up all the rage and futility hovering in the air around us, cloaked himself in it, then climbed a tree.
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Yet the successive sketches in futility, while clear enough (dragging chairs in a circle for no reason), are widely spaced and diffuse in impact.
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We understand right from the beginning of this novel that the seeming futility of Rex's quest is not a barrier, it's a speed bump.
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He resorted to quoting the earthy wisdom of a former Senate majority leader and President to capture the sense of futility and political dislocation.
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For as long as anyone remembers, following the Cubs has meant embracing futility, choosing the losers over the winners, seeing the romance in failure.
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Theo Walcott captaining and leading the injury and terror-prone to fall apart yet again while the genuinely great players rage away in futility?
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It is especially frustrating knowing that the team's futility might affect the chance that his performance will be recognized with a Cy Young award.
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WASHINGTON — In Douglas Laux's final days as a C.I.A. officer, the futility of his mission prompted him to quote George Orwell to his boss.
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A window pops up—barely heading off an existential crisis about the futility of writing—and asks me to click Enact on Biological Immortality.
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Timothy Egan We can say with absolute certainty that the Chicago Cubs ended a 108-year spell of futility and won the World Series.
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"The decision by voters last month makes today's announcement by the Office of Surface Mining an exercise in futility," Capito said in a statement.
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Maureen Meade, a critical care specialist and researcher in clinical trial and research methods, put the case against stopping trials for futility in 2005.
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Meade's article and the wider halt-for- futility literature make clear that such a halt should be a scientific decision, not a business decision.
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Of all the seasons of futility that the Orioles franchise has seen over the past two decades, the 2018 season has been the worst.
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer is a de facto reimagining of Iphigenia, in all its its futility and absence of a moral checkpoint.
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But, by the time Offred got her second chance to escape, in Episode 11, the plot was devolving into an exercise in Sisyphean futility.
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Still, they generally recognize the futility in fretting over the changes — given that the circumstances are beyond our control — and go with the flow.
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What followed was the Second Intifada, or "uprising," a reaction to the world's indifference to their struggle and the futility of plans like Oslo.
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In reality, this recent run of futility — which came after a six-game home winning streak — is not an isolated bump in the road.
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I imagined his ghost lurking about, disgusted at the polyglot city around him, and raging at the futility of his act of murder. ♦
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And with Mr. Trump in the White House, Republicans who previously challenged Dodd-Frank now see success in their sights after years of futility.
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The team itself has lost 20 of its past 26 games, continuing a run of futility that has dominated Dolan's two decades as owner.
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Song to Song, like last year's Knight of Cups, is about fame, desire, and the futility of chasing after the wind (to quote Ecclesiastes).
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It is between mastery and futility, between the pull of ambition and the memento mori whisper that human striving is empty at the core.
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At Hebgen, the futility of our task set in: Even with the terrain narrowed down by 98 percent, the land is vast, unforgiving, and rugged.
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In addition to the futility from the floor, the two teams combined for 17 turnovers in the first 20 minutes, nine charged to South Carolina.
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Or would you quickly recognize the futility of the pursuit, that the whole thing was a mirage merely reflecting distorted images of the real world?
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We imagine he's very sensitive in private, and that he spends his spare time reading Vera Brittain and crying quietly at the futility of war.
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For a potential owner, the economics of landing an expansion franchise look much better if they don't involve suffering through years of on-ice futility.
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"The action in the last month really demonstrates the futility of owning sectors," said Alec Young, an independent strategist formerly with S&P and Oppenheimer.
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The futility of selecting fund managers likely to outperform over time and the low cost and tax efficiency of indexing have been preached for decades.
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What far fewer people have heard of is a short novel called Futility: The Wreck of the Titan, published by the U.S. writer Morgan Robertson.
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"I mean, the futility of saying something like this," said Dr. Ernesto Selva Sutter, a leading public health expert in El Salvador, shaking his head.
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U.S. residents also seem increasingly aware of the futility in preventing illegal marijuana use, said Ian Laird, a lawyer and co-founder of New Leaf.
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The odds are against both from the start, giving the film a feeling of futility and fatality to go with its already considerable emotional heft.
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This is an album that opens with the pained whisper of "Speed Trials," essentially a tribute to futility, a track about running while standing still.
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The very ignorance of governance and policy that has made Trump's first 100 days an exercise in futility is also radically reshaping the executive branch.
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Bloch had hoped that the museum could showcase the futility of war, but he died just before the opening; the museum finally closed in 1919.
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"Portals Into Futility was a journey for us to write, and hopefully a journey that also presents itself to the listener," the band told Noisey.
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No, the real symbol of futility here, through no fault of his own except circumstance, is a much younger and cheaper player, the outfielder Hicks.
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"Everything I'm telling people to say is like football hooligan violence," he said, explaining that he was trying to demonstrate the futility of tribal behavior.
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The climate crusaders need to listen from the engineers and to be upfront about the scale, risks, costs and likely futility of grand green plans.
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Many of the protesters interviewed at university campuses over the past week expressed a sense of futility, saying non-violent opposition was not proving effective.
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The endeavor has a deliberate sense of futility to it, which derives not only from the project's impractical scope but also its method and materials.
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Maybe I figured out the futility of my effort, or maybe I just don't have the time that I did when I was starting out freelancing.
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Perhaps no moment better epitomized the futility of KC's efforts than Ilie Sanchez's failed penalty kick in the 45th minute, with score tied at 2-2.
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The bar soap, I'm conflicted on — I love the way it makes my skin smell and feel, but my butterfingers make it an exercise in futility.
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Upon arrival at the pits, Dennis is immediately struck with the futility of such a pandering contest when our time on this planet is so finite.
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The band announced the record alongside a new single, "Can't Hold On," a doomful track that has Cole Alexander and Jared Swilley sharing howls about futility.
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But knowing that chemical weapons continue to be used even today touches that victory with a sense of futility, which the filmmakers seem to have intended.
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Maybe The Walking Dead, at its core, is just a existential rumination on the futility of trying to create order in a world full of chaos.
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SHAWN KRAVETZPresidentEsplanade Capital Boston Regarding Bartleby's musings on the futility of meetings (June 30th), I can tell you that it is easy to run them efficiently.
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In contrast, "The Bells" reduced the show's darkness to an endless deluge of futility and cynicism, inspiring tedious dread instead of anything close to emotional catharsis.
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Soon women will reach the next inevitably stage (which the blacks have already reached), and realize the futility of competing and trying to be like men.
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Goldman's study illustrates the futility of responding to the problem of doping through the threat of detection and punishment or even the threat of death itself.
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" Kennedy adds, "Despite their apparent futility, [the doctor's] small acts of moral courage give his life its purpose and somehow bring order to the larger universe.
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A Missouri native, Droz Tragos has offered an intimate series of portraits, in the service of a film imbued with a sense of built-in futility.
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This was all the more depressing given what Syndergaard represented for the Mets: a bright future after years of futility, the fulfillment of long-frustrated dreams.
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"There is an element of futility in a judicial attempt to invalidate a law because of the bad motives of its supporters," the majority opinion reads.
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Now, a reading from the Book of Futility: This week in 1988, the Baltimore Orioles reached what may have been the nadir of the franchise's existence.
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His specialty is the ambiguity of self, particularly as defined by skin color, and the futility as well as the necessity of looking for solid answers.
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In the postwar years, the Somme exemplified the waste and futility of battle, symbolizing disillusionment not only with war, but with the very idea of heroism.
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Although the video's narrative is somewhat ambiguous, it explores ideas of lost passions, nostalgia, yearning, and futility through a series of simple yet psychologically charged scenes.
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Interpret the planet as an abstraction of our physical experience as living beings, and it's a game about the futility of exerting control beyond our means.
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They'd probably rather not be reminded of the 17 years of near misses and futility, including the failures to find a consistent quarterback or head coach.
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We're having a debate today over whether, after three years of futility, in 16 days' time we just give up and leave and see what happens.
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A state where politicians have long cited the futility of the war on drugs now must decide what to do about scofflaws in a legalized system.
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To describe the show is a lesson in futility, but the episodes are deeply sweet, soothing, and some have made me cry (in a good way).
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India's plans were cited by American critics of the Paris climate accord as proof of the futility of advanced nations trying to limit their carbon output.
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Boston's six and a half minutes of futility: 2-0: After a couple of Washington free throws, Boston came down, not suspecting the ineffectiveness to come.
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"The Treasure" is both a fable of futility worthy of Samuel Beckett and an allegory of Romania's precarious place at the margins of the European Union.
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"More and more, there is a sense of futility," Anson Chan, who for years was the city's second-ranking government official, told The Times's Keith Bradsher.
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The locals are treating him like a conquering hero, but he's acutely aware of the flaws and the ultimate futility of the mission that killed Escobar.
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That was part of what was so beautiful to me about his interpretation of "Angels in America" — the hopeful futility of reaching out and touching someone.
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I was just waiting for inspiration to strike, a creative way to write about a book dedicated to the perceived futility and inner turmoil of creativity.
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Critics argued effectively that the President was trying to pull the wool over America's eyes and, far from highlighting his skills, exposed the futility of his approach.
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"I think this is just silly, and the futility of the attempt to convince somebody of this is absolutely obvious," Lavrov added, according to the news outlet.
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We all experience bouts of it from time to time, and managing stress (or at least remembering to inhale-exhale) can feel like an exercise in futility.
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Today the futility of Rieux's efforts may speak to those with a creeping fear that good ideas are no longer considered valuable by angry and iconoclastic electorates.
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Regulating their use similarly seems like an exercise in futility, given that many of these videos are produced anonymously and potentially across national borders, making enforcement impossible.
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" And later, when considering the futility of living in a city where rents skyrocket with seemingly no limit, Kelling opines: "There's no future, but I don't mind.
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Yet until Android actually catches up—or apps are specifically optimized for Android—benchmarking them to compare them to iOS devices will be an exercise in futility.
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The truth is when Nadal is fully firing, which can be taken as read in Paris, conventional claycourt combat against the Mallorcan is an exercise in futility.
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As in horror films like The Last House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave, that sense of futility is explicitly linked to sexual violence.
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The decision was based on a so-called futility analysis of aducanumab data by an independent monitoring committee that determined the trials had little hope of succeeding.
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And their repeated calls for a special counsel they have no power to task often serves to stress the futility of their minority status on Capitol Hill.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - The front-runner in South Korea's presidential election sees North Korea's latest attempted missile launch on Saturday as "an exercise in futility", his spokesman said.
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It's a deeply philosophical work, as Godot is considered in some interpretations to represent the absence of God, while the waiting exemplifies the futility of human existence.
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The fiscal futility has left Illinois - the only state ever to go 22 months without a budget - with nearly $13 billion of unpaid bills as of Wednesday.
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Their generalizations are not persuasive, and Schumer and Pelosi have little or no credibility with the voters who need to be convinced of the border wall's futility.
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On April 28, they lost their 21st game of the season in 21 tries, a record for start-of-season futility that has yet to be equaled.
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She, like many young millennials and Gen-Zers, understands the futility of putting in effort and instead chooses to accept the way her life is going anyway.
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"As decades of fruitless efforts have proven, trying to identify 'judicially discernible and manageagble standards' for adjudicating generalized political grievances is an exercise in futility," he wrote.
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What they could not avoid were the reminders of the offensive futility under the former coach Ben McAdoo, who, like Shurmur, arrived as a promising offensive coordinator.
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But in the silence left by the company and its shushed researchers, his "futility" phrasing set the tone for much of the coverage and conversation that followed.
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The primary symbols of Minnesota's futility across that span — Gary Anderson's missed field goal and Brett Favre's interception and Darrin Nelson's drop — have worn purple and white.
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His view that requests for more troops in futile "nation building" in Afghanistan, after 16 years of blood and treasure spent, were an exercise in futility: correct.
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Because this instrument — weedy and wonky though it may be — is a prime example of the futility of Europe's struggle for strategic autonomy from the United States.
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"Splotch," by Gianna Marino ("Night Animals"), is about a dead goldfish, a botched cover-up and the futility of trying to protect loved ones from hard truths.
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Counting the futility of its two departed N.H.L. franchises, the Flames and Thrashers, Atlanta can claim only one championship — Braves, 1995 — across a combined 167 completed seasons.
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The fiscal futility has left Illinois - the only state ever to go 22 months without a budget - with around $12.2 billion in unpaid bills as of Wednesday.
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" The spokesman couldn't resist taking a playful jab at the Cubs's historic futility, noting the team's on-field success the year has "been a long time coming.
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The other issue is the futility of it all – as one analyst puts it, lower interest rates can't help you if you are in bed with coronavirus.
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And it warns about the futility of violence against him (something that has new resonance in the wake of controversy over Kathy Griffin's "beheading" of the president).
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The Bengals were rewarded for their futility with the No. 1 pick in the 2020 draft, and the chance to find a long-term solution at quarterback.
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This futility reminds me of Andy Warhol's Time Capsules project, a series of 612 cardboard boxes he filled and sealed in the last 13 years of his life.
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There's an undercurrent of futility to conversations about American business, a presumption of inevitability to the often-devastating effects of capitalism in its current stage (you know, late).
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While the Punisher's pursuit of revenge seems never-ending, the Godfather series was far more effective at illustrating the ultimate futility of the "eye for an eye" philosophy.
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At Brown, Scott was captain of the Men's Varsity Tennis Team and he continues, despite the futility of his efforts, to be a big supporter of Brown Athletics.
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She's spoken out about fat-shaming and recently posted a body-positive Instagram that noted the futility of judging your body's fitness by a number on the scale.
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Wake Forest's futility continued in the second half as Clemson used an 113-0 run to pull ahead by 25 with 13:46 remaining and never looked back.
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A film like Inside Llewyn Davis finds dark humor in failure, but to treat futility—the eternal tilting at windmills—with utter seriousness is a far trickier proposition.
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But in the sad pieces our dauntless aesthete offers us glimpses of her psyche, and of intelligent heroes melting into a sense of sophisticated futility and thwarted feeling.
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Portals Into Futility marks the Portland band's third full-length (their second for Relapse Records), and its astoundingly heavy, nuanced funeral doom compositions are matched by lyrical heft.
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Last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo unveiled with some fanfare another way of dealing with, even isolating China, that approaches the ridiculous in its scale and futility.
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The drug's maker, Eli Lilly, stopped the study in October, citing futility, but it was not until Sunday's meeting that cardiologists first saw the data behind that decision.
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If the intent was to boost the economy or the markets, the Fed's 50-basis-point emergency rate cut a couple weeks ago was an exercise in futility.
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Once the N.F.L.'s poster child for futility and a punch line for potential relocation, the Jaguars (3813-4) are now one of the league's top turnaround stories.
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Yet the Leafs have not appeared in the finals since 1967, maintaining a dubious streak of futility that ranks among the most glaring in North American professional sports.
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Having already shown the damaging futility of more rockets, threats, and punitive sanctions, America and Iran should talk directly and seek a temporary truce, inside Iraq and beyond.
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Little did I know then, as I chuckled over the frantic antics of Daffy and Bugs and company, that I was taking an extended course in existential futility.
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Only then will the Trump administration have offset the futility of American diplomacy over the past quarter-century by the kind of resolute action that will save lives.
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The Cubs' futility against Bauer is nothing new: The Indians' right-hander improved to 21908-0 with a 0.46 ERA in three career regular-season starts against Chicago.
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To be born into the ranks of the Filipino poor is to be condemned to the fatalistic knowledge of perpetual hardship, and the dangerous futility of seeking improvement.
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And if the futility of their situation ever dawns on them like a dark sunrise, they're unlikely to receive a lot of sympathy from their friends and family.
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While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has criticized the tariffs, he has called a vote on the legislation an "exercise in futility" because Trump will likely veto it.
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At times, the fight between these two camps has taken on the bitterness and intensity (not to mention futility) of a knife fight in a rubber life raft.
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The only way out of the mess is for local and state leaders to wake up to the futility of these kinds of deals and call a truce.
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Bombardier's futility would finally end in April 2016 when it landed the sale it had long sought; an order for 75 C Series jets from Delta Air Lines.
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That level of futility was unfamiliar to a Ducks club that led the N.H.L. with 213 goals in 22-93 and had the Western Conference's best record last season.
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Most people know Sisyphus, condemned by the gods to ceaselessly push a boulder up a mountain only for it to roll back down, as a symbol of utter futility.
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Again, none of this—the vote totals, the season stats, the scorched-earth adjectives deployed so reasonably and with such futility to describe that supernova overtime—quite captures it.
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The power play has contributed to the scoring futility, going 0-for-11 over the past five games and failing on all five chances in the loss at Colorado.
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But "290," written in five loosely connected parts, is also about evil, memory, chaos, futility, dread, hunger for meaning, and, not least, the sometimes maddening lure of literature itself.
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Rantanen's hat trick lifts Avalanche past Canadiens DENVER — The Colorado Avalanche skated off the Bell Center ice in Montreal at the lowest point in a season full of futility.
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Both of the past two World Series winners, the Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs, had to endure three years of futility before acquiring the foundations of their championship rosters.
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It speaks of collecting fragmentation against scattering and loss, but also of futility, eccentricity, astonishment, admiration, awe, and a kind of dazed submission to the abundance of the world.
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The journey is definitely preferable to the destination; despite the difficulty and seeming futility of the snails' climb in "Kleine Schwarmerei," there is still beauty in the present moment.
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Shanmugam insisted that Singapore's tough approach has yielded positive results, and dismissed claims by Latin American and European delegates that scientific evidence showed the futility of harsh drug policies.
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There's no real logical rebuttal to this, except to point to three months of chaos and humiliation as indicative of the futility of continuing to do things Bannon's way.
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The creation of programs such as Muslim Crypt also highlight the futility of law enforcement hopes to ban the use of unbreakable encryption in popular hardware and messaging apps.
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" And this responsible outlook, he emphasized, meant that any policy -- private or public -- that wasn't framed with reference to the rest of the world "is framed with perfect futility.
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Friday's announcement was an extraordinary comedown that left many in the White House and those who support Trump marveling at the futility of the preceding four weeks of brinkmanship.
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And to demonstrate the futility of this all, New Democracy regained power on a platform of fiscal irresponsibility and with a leader from one of Greece's entrenched political families.
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"My art practice is strongest when I channel an aspect of desperation and futility into it, so really, this situation has provided ample inspiration," Moss told Hyperallergic via email.
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They had a 20-something GM in Theo Epstein, a near-century of futility to overcome, and a bunch of long-haired, carefree idiots on the big-league roster.
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And it triumphs, time and again, for it causes heroes to throw up their hands and simply wander off mid-battle, numbed by the apparent futility of it all.
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A year into this administration, do you feel a certain futility in your task, that all this satirical sunlight you're providing is not serving as any kind of disinfectant?
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And yet this effort, despite its futility, is born of a great urgency and motivated by a more powerful drive than anything else, because life itself depends upon it.
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For about five minutes, much of it aimed directly to the camera, he raps about the futility of the drug game, about the hopelessness that leads to poor decisions.
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"In an environment where 30% swings over a weekend are reality, forecasting pricing during panics and hysteria is an exercise in futility," he wrote in a note to clients.
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The full futility of that effort was revealed in documents obtained by the Washington Post late last year from an investigation by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
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As amusing as these interludes are, they read as attempts to force an exaggerated sense of mystery into an ultimately simple and moralistic tale about the futility of vengeance.
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The fact that Halperin was able to dominate colleagues with impunity, Kiely said, only gave other abusers more confidence and convinced their victims of the futility of speaking up.
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It leaves the reader with lingering discomfort over the futility of trying to connect with a tour guide whose world is nothing like that of the well-off traveler's.
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The Cubs' futility at the plate spoiled a terrific outing from veteran southpaw Jon Lester (4-2), who limited Cleveland to one run on six hits in seven innings.
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It is a work of ecstatic despair, an argument for the futility of human effort that almost refutes itself through the application of a grumpy and tenacious artistic will.
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There's both a sense of hope and of utter futility, of overwrought bureaucracy and the extremely limited but potential challenges that citizens can offer in the face of it.
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The crippling sense of futility that hangs over Greece and the useless information we are bombarded with every day, make it difficult for a person to focus on anything.
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"Researchers don't frame the issue in terms of patient safety, but that is a big implication of this study," said Pope, who tracks the issue on his Medical Futility Blog.
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Now, in the year of our lord 2016, after 108 years of futility, the Chicago Cubs are World Series champions and it's time to shotgun that damn beer, old dude!
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Trying to describe it to someone without a headset — who sees nothing but real-life objects and a nerd wearing a computer on her face — is an exercise in futility.
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The above paragraph is a story to meditate by Japan's economic strategists; it is the key lesson showing the futility of an exclusive reliance on the long-running monetary experimentation.
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But there's a reason the Obama's Katrina genre endures in futility: The unwholesome mixture of a press corps obsessed with optics and a conservative establishment reeling from its own failures.
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Many of Biden's rivals are running on very ambitious policy agendas, but with no path to getting these ideas through the Senate, it can feel like an exercise in futility.
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These concepts are enormously complex and require much reflection and analysis, but it is clear that "futility" refers here to whether the treatment will sustain the life of the patient.
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Yet China should be worried that many of Hong Kong's brightest young people, having seen the futility of trying to improve the current political system, want to replace it altogether.
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In a New York Times report on the "ok boomer" phenomenon, teens express a sense of futility about a world that has been potentially irreversibly ruined by careless old people.
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We live in a world of imperfect choices and trying to find a perfect solution where technology moves at the velocity of Moore's Law is an ignorant exercise in futility.
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As far as snapping their streak of futility at Honda Center, the Flames felt the streak was more of a nuisance than anything, having to address it before the game.
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If you were looking for a basketball game to represent true futility, you could do worse than Washington's home game against Golden State on a Wednesday evening in early February.
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Katie (Amber Tamblyn) goes on a rant about the futility of television, calling it a "big conspiracy" that involves companies sending magnetic waves through the air and into our brains.
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As years of congressional gridlock and bipartisan compromises that lead to nowhere have shown, expecting accountability from elected officials on the issue of gun violence is an exercise in futility.
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So my formative years of journalism were looking at the results of school segregation on children, and really the futility of saying that you can make these segregated schools equal.
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The futility of those talks led to the departures of Mr. de Mistura's two predecessors, Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general, and Lakhdar Brahimi, a veteran Algerian diplomat.
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Bannon was even more determined than Trump to force an American pullout, and he pelted McMaster with derisive taunts about the futility of throwing more money into Afghanistan's corrupt army.
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Negan's troopers capture both men and return them to the stronghold from which they made their daring escape, the futility of it all compelling Carson to take his own life.
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"Game of Thrones" has been broadly about the futility of the cycles of revenge and violence, ultimately functioning as a critique of political structures based on raw power and entitlement.
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It is a gesture as futile, and as glorious in its futility, as building a monument to all the world's heroes in Mitteleuropa, or printing magazines no one will read.
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It turns out Magic Johnson, who piloted some of the greatest teams in N.B.A. history, will not be the savior who helps the Lakers escape their longest run of futility.
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None of his first seven Nationals teams finished with a winning record, a stretch of futility that ended with the first of their four National League East titles in 13.
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One can only hope that a further widening of the trade deficit will bring home to the president the futility of engaging in trade wars to reduce the trade deficit.
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The Sharks failed to beat Vasilevskiy on any of three power plays, stretching their streak of futility to 443-for-22 in their last nine games with the man advantage.
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Hopefully by this time next summer, you'll be able to languish in the sun reading Edgar Allan Poe and musing on the futility of life while reclining in your inflatable coffin.
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This photo of one, ennui-stricken lifeguard in Rio, which came from a New York Times article about the futility of lifeguards at the Olympics, has been competently paddling around Twitter.
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Despite the historic futility of his teammates, Barkley did a good job of acquitting himself on the field and off, and was seen on the sideline encouraging Bellamy about his mistake.
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Or one tied to a random dice roll, because changing the volume should be exciting (and perhaps, an exercise in futility when you realize the maximum volume can only be 96).
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More than that, the creative act is a rare source of dignity, in that it is a dogged defiance of fate that is simultaneously aware of the futility of that defiance.
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Their repurposing of glam or "bubblegum" in this sense is a way of maybe feeling the same isolation, the same futility, but at least shining your psychological shoes in the process.
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Democrats may recognize its similarity to the one they used against Republicans in 1998 when they successfully portrayed the impeachment of President Bill Clinton as a partisan-driven exercise in futility.
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After just about every mission, one of your subordinates will get on the radio and ask, "What was the point of this?" just in case the war's eventual futility was unclear.
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Nathan MacKinnon scored with 25 seconds left in overtime and the Avalanche ended seven weeks of home futility with a 213-21 win over the New York Islanders on Friday night.
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No wonder the eventual report is so heftily redacted; Dan's hard labor is made to seem like an exercise in futility, as entire pages are reduced to thick stripes of black.
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But our Sisyphean pursuit of the good life has higher stakes, and its amalgam of fantasy and futility is something that we process as experience before we rationalize it in thought.
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"The experience of this court suggests that when one stockholder fails to establish demand futility, rarely does another stockholder file a substantially similar complaint simply to try again," the chancellor wrote.
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In The Unknown Girl, Jenny is tossed into a deep construction ditch by Bryan, in a scene that underlines the futility of her detective work with an absurdity that's almost comic.
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F Marcus Morris led a balanced attack with 17 points and the Pistons ended six years of futility against the Clippers with a 108-97 victory on Friday at The Palace.
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Even if my personal language of desire leads me to the male-identifying body as an artistic subject, I want to acknowledge the futility of expressing its masculinity in a picture.
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"1917: Total War in Flanders" took the war's futility seriously and offered a model American institutions could learn from: how to mourn the dead and to understand their loss, without triumphalism.
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Those low yields elsewhere have been a symbol of a decade of futility for debt-laden European countries and a Japan that is still trying to break the back of deflation.
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Mr. Michôd, whose previous films include "Animal Kingdom," a gamy crime drama, and "The Rover," a dusty post-apocalyptic thriller, gestures toward the grim futility of the war on the ground.
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Atlanta has lost nine straight playoff series and is just one away from tying the Chicago Cubs' record for postseason futility — 10 postseason losses in a row between 1908 and 2003.
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Sam Shepard has acknowledged the compulsion — and also the futility — in interviews and dramatized it in plays where protagonists return to the place that's supposed to take you in, but doesn't.
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But trying to level the playing field in this manner is an exercise in futility; bringing a few lucky underprivileged people into our space does little to address the underlying hierarchy.
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When Trump announced he was sending more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, the Washington Post editorial page hailed what Trump calls his "principled realism" — regardless of the futility of perpetuating that quagmire.
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The majority were not dopers, did not beat their wives or children, did not commit suicide, did not haunt the unemployment offices, and did not boozily sink into despair and futility.
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After observing the government's no-deal test run in Dover, Tom Peck, the political sketch writer for The Independent, summed up the futility of the government's preplanned "tailback," or traffic jam.
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"Crocodile" contains numerous echoes of Fargo and A Simple Plan, similar morality tales set against similar desolate landscapes, and both stories of the totality of desperation and the futility of fate.
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I feel like it can be read as a statement on the crushing futility of labor under platform capitalism, but the video's director Grant Curatola talks about it in more abstract terms.
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So for now it's a fascinating possibility, among all the others, that may help explain why joining a gym as a sole strategy to lose weight is often an exercise in futility.
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Jacob Zuma's court dates have piled up in recent years, along with seemingly endless appeals in what his allies have termed his "Stalingrad strategy" of contesting every judgment, no matter the futility.
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Notice the disagreement between Charlie's parents and Pope Francis's conception of "futility" and "medical benefit" (based on Charlie's current needs) versus that of the UK government (based on Charlie's quality of life).
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This guy's play in the postseason sabotaged the Penguins between 2010-2013, yet he's so beloved in Pittsburgh that fans there would sooner blame their mothers for those four years of futility.
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A$AP Twelvyy joins hosts Ben Detrick and Jordan Redaelli to discuss the 2017 NBA trade deadline, the sad futility of the Sacramento Kings, the draft's top point guards, and Yams Day.
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But this production also implicitly asks us to consider the roots, futility and inevitability of cyclical violence, and to question ourselves for wallowing so happily in the stories that traffic in it.
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But after scoring the first 213 points, they gave up the last 143, their futility compounded by Ben Smith's 214-yard fumble return for a touchdown, which was nullified by instant replay.
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An effective punk protest album in 2018 must somehow acknowledge its own limitations, the futility of representation, and the snowballing impotence of the alternative rock subculture, and that's what this album does.
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"The Grand Illusion" (21949) Set during World War I, this great French drama from director Jean Renoir explores the futility of war and class distinctions through French officers captured by German forces.
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Fourteen years before the Titanic sank, the American writer Morgan Robertson published a novella called "The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility," in which the titular ship sinks after striking an iceberg.
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"Well I think the plan will be that it will stop itself, because they're going to figure out the futility of what they're trying to do," Sam Clovis told MSNBC on Monday.
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"More and more, there is a sense of futility," said Anson Chan, the second-highest official in the Hong Kong government in the years before and after the handover to Chinese rule.
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Over and above the personal benefits of meditation one can imagine that populations engaged in such practices would expand their awareness of the inadequacy and futility of some of our affective responses.
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For an example of the futility of Mr. Trump's approach, consider that Alcoa, an American aluminum manufacturer, sought an exemption from tariffs designed to protect it because it imports aluminum from Canada.
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It was the futility of ever pleasing everybody, and the unfairness of women being expected to do so, which she said spurred her to decide she was "sick" of this status quo.
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In Oslo, Mr. Abiy drew on his personal experiences as a soldier in the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict to deliver a speech deriding the futility of war and extolling the virtues of peace.
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The futility of these efforts has led many mathematicians to conclude that the conjecture is simply beyond the reach of current understanding—and that they're better off spending their research time elsewhere.
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Such an effort would surely exceed, in scale and futility, President Woodrow Wilson's decision to send the Army and that National Guard to the Southwest to fruitlessly chase Pancho Villa in 2400.
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Blankfein, U.S. District Judge Sandra Townes of Brooklyn listed several of the decisions rejecting Vides after explaining her own reasoning that shareholders must prove demand futility when they plead Section 14 violations.
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The unusually spirited performance of the opposition in such tough circumstances either bodes well for them in the future — or highlights the futility of running against Mr. Erdogan in such biased circumstances.
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Realizing the futility of continuing to run, the woman shoots her boyfriend and goes out in a blaze of glory as her ship is shot to pieces by police, as Spike watches.
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While my mother's lessons on the near-futility of making a living off writing was exactly what I didn't want to hear, today I credit them for getting me where I am today.
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Realizing the futility of that approach, he hesitantly changed to a more cooperative and friendlier posture — effectively turning into a supplicant for contact and attention with an aloof, hostile and indifferent Chinese leadership.
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And the fact that many of these migrants might be natural Trump constituents is a good example of the futility of reducing Trump's appeal to an either-or of racism or economic grievance.
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These days outspoken protest songs are as old-fashioned as guitar-heavy alternative rock, and the conjunction of aesthetic and political futility toughens the songwriting, because it inspires the venting of cathartic energy.
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On CBS, Hawkeye and Trapper John reserved even more contempt for the war itself, and complained about its futility even as they stitched up its boyish victims, helicoptered in straight from the front.
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All this busy-looking inaction and wild rot, the crushing executive pettiness and toothless bluster and whack-a-mole futility, is as familiar as it is strange, wherever in the world you are.
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Tax experts echoed the futility of trying to make projections — or, for average Americans, trying to plan their financial futures — without any detailed insight into what parts of the tax code might change.
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Nevertheless, they do inject quite a bit of rousing, valiant pathos into material that doesn't warrant such an approach, especially when they get hung up on the tragic futility of the touring lifestyle.
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So rather than actively point out the futility of the post-game press conference genre, the Yankees would prefer their players prostrate themselves before the press and give them exactly what they want.
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Steelers advance as Bengals self-destruct CINCINNATI - The season will continue for the Pittsburgh Steelers and end for the Cincinnati Bengals, who saw their streak of postseason futility extended in heart-wrenching fashion.
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Mr. Flake invoked the Republican National Committee's so-called autopsy report after the 2012 campaign, which argued for minority outreach and immigration reform, as a sign of the futility of the party's predicament.
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Out September 8 via Relapse (who are running preorders here), Portals Into Futility is streaming in its imposing, multi-layered entirety below (and, just FYI, you can find Cory's "Satanic Feminist" shirt here).
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The Cubs entered Monday 31-5003, and losers of four of five; they are redeemed only—and then only in part—by the remarkable futility of the other four teams in their division.
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He lambasted Clinton for her "politics of fear, futility and incompetence for supporting trade deals," but faced a ribbing of his own on social media for speaking next to a pile of garbage.
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To demand moral perfection or to succumb in the face of seeming futility is to turn our backs on what can be achieved by acknowledging both the ideal and the limits of reality.
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But the language used by his unnamed source—"failed a futility analysis"—strongly implied that the trial was halted by the FDA because it did not clear the FDA's chance-of-success threshold.
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But Professor Hansen said he found it appropriate and satisfying that his book about the cost and futility of war has gained attention, accidentally or otherwise, because of the current administration in Washington.
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The Padres are still a last-place team trying to stop a string of eight consecutive losing seasons, the longest stretch of futility since the brown-and-gold beginnings of this woebegone franchise.
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And the most worrisome aspect of the whole saga — even more distressing than the Lakers' futility in persuading LaVar to uphold his many promises to cease causing distractions — was Lonzo Ball's muted response.
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Seasons 2 through 6 offer some of TV's shrewdest commentaries on issues both topical and timeless, from MeToo and celebrity apology tours to the futility of magical thinking and the chaos of grief.
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Such layers of distance and persona produce a song about the futility of living up to an archetype ("I bet she won't even cry when it's over," Lambert speculates, but what if she does?).
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It has been largely a history of futility for the International team, with just one victory and one tie in 11 editions of the event, including six defeats in six attempts on U.S. soil.
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As it is, Mr Najib is counting on the squabbling opposition not to get its act together—in particular, on its failing to acknowledge the futility of Mr Anwar leading the opposition from jail.
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If anything, this reminds us of the ultimate futility of the sesh, as does the near certainty that Lionel Messi and his representatives would not approve of his image being used in this way.
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Yet I felt something like twinges of existential doubt or futility while appreciating the spiky fertility of "Volubilis," something Twombly most likely absorbed from his early passion for the transubstantiating drawings of Alberto Giacometti.
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"Partly because the ideas or thing I believe in my psyche are very reminiscent of the Lovecraftian existential horror you'd feel when realizing your fragile futility on the scale of the universe," he says.
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"The requested deposition, moreover, would be an exercise in futility," Clinton's lawyers claimed, since Clinton herself no longer is in control of her email server after handing it over to the FBI last year.
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Buchheim's novel caused a massive stir in the 1970s because it thematized the crimes, the guilt, and the pervasive sense of futility among those who had volunteered for service in the U-boat war.
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Hawks hammer Kings to extend home domination ATLANTA — The Atlanta Hawks made their first home victory of the season a rout Wednesday night while adding to the Sacramento Kings' longtime futility at Phillips Arena.
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Now, the referendum result may have revealed the futility of expecting to engage with an elected government in Bangkok, since the draft constitution entrenches the military government's power for at least another six years.
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On my part there is often a great weariness and a sense of futility in life but a lifelong discipline in a sense of obligation and a healthy interest in people keeps me going.
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David Klion, a left-wing freelance journalist, told me that part of the reason for this recent tactical escalation on the left's part may have to do with a sense of futility many feel.
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After years of choosing candidates like the former Republican governor, Charlie Crist (who lost his race for the governorship four years ago), Democrats now realize the futility of centrist politics in these hyperpartisan times.
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But, in the surprisingly tender tone in which she passes the responsibility on to Brünnhilde, she hinted at a deeper sense of not only the futility, but also the undesirability of being proved right.
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And Tampa Bay's two quarterbacks, Jameis Winston and Ryan Fitzpatrick, have combined for a league-high 23 interceptions — five more than any other team — and seem to be outdoing each other in weekly futility.
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Still hard-wired with bourgeois codes of academic and professional achievement, he nonetheless feels himself "nailed by birth to a destiny of exclusion and resentment," paralyzed by a bitter sense of futility and inertia.
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No safety concerns during trial The decision to stop the aducanumab trials was not due to any safety concerns, but on the results of a futility analysis conducted by an independent data monitoring committee.
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While the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) continues to receive obscenely huge amounts of government largesse, so many Americans now use and abuse drugs that it's the height of futility to try and stop it.
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Konta, 26, who likes to discuss muffin baking and her adoration of the band U2, captivated her adopted nation on Tuesday by ending a 39-year spell of futility for British women at Wimbledon.
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"Uniting (our) efforts is the correct path for Iran to realize the futility of its incursions and expansionism," Gargash wrote on his official Twitter account, several hours after a policy speech on Iran by Pompeo.
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The futility of these policies can be seen in a handful of figures: a gaping fiscal deficit that hit 12% of GDP last year; ballooning public debt (101% of GDP) and high unemployment (over 12%).
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In the reckoning that is Skeleton Tree, the 59-year-old advances perhaps the greatest wisdom of his hero's legacy: That, in ceding to the paradox and futility of simply being alive, we find grace.
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If the well-trod path toward the futility of gun regulation has any chance of breaking new ground, the remarkable activism of social-media-savvy students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas and beyond will be key.
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In 2009, the two designed a concept for a binational seesaw at the border for a book, "Borderwall as Architecture," which uses "humor and inventiveness to address the futility of building barriers," UC-Berkeley said.
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Or maybe he shared in the widespread sense of depression and futility because our decidedly un-Churchillian federal leadership seems intent on actively worsening problems like species extinction, climate change, public health, you name it.
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Sensing a lack of support on the ground and acknowledging the futility of street action under a restrictive protest law, most opposition forces say they won't take to the streets on January 25 this year.
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It is a heartfelt - if a little naive - attempt at depicting the futility of war and the consequences of militancy, one that is uplifted considerably because it is narrated from the perspective of a child.
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The very futility of the Vietnam War (at the moment being laid before America again in Ken Burns' PBS series), made sharing in the experience a collective initiation for veterans into the darknesses of adulthood.
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In what will likely be the premiere's most discussed segment, her team went out to New Hampshire to follow Jeb Bush, and came away with a Werner Herzog-style documentary about the candidate's milquetoast futility.
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The demolition of the wall was an internationally celebrated event, and remnants of the structure still stand in reunified Berlin today, as a reminder of hardship and futility of that attempt to limit the populace.
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He's been stationed in Colombia long enough to realize the futility of a fair fight against Escobar, because the D.E.A. has neither the resources nor the legal flexibility to meet their enemy on equal footing.
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This strategist cited the futility of accusing Trump of hyping crime: This seems counterproductive: Voters are not judging a 10-year performance on crime if they are worried about an experienced or feared increase now.
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But its often jaded outlook on romantic love and the futility of war has also made it seem like one of Shakespeare's most modern plays, and over the years, it has inspired high-concept productions.
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The girl panics, freezes, thinks the guy will hurt her if she yells at him, starts making horrible calculations of futility: anyone who hears this story will think it's her fault for inviting him in.
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The Yankees left 2200 runners on base, going 21 for 22 with runners in scoring position for the second straight game, a display of futility that contributed to a 13-21 loss at Yankee Stadium.
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Carl scored tickets for Saturday night and agreed to take me along, although he was leery of my startling ignorance of the team's history of futility and said he could get $20,000 for my ticket.
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The gruesome futility of The Troubles fueled growing impatience and paved the way for a peace process that resulted in the Good Friday Agreement, signed in 1998, which set up a new power-sharing government.
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Emo's general argument was that the proper response to futility was not to fight against it or even to wallow in existential longing but instead to deploy an excessive, almost comical level of self-absorption.
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The experience was akin to a perpetual hangover of the soul, which I tried to defeat not with ibuprofen and Netflix but with a lot of lying down and contemplating the futility of getting up.
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CArdinals 22003, Braves 22001 | St. Louis Leads Series, 22002-22 Game 21 of this division series was tied, 21-03, in the ninth, but things got wild from there, extending Atlanta's run of postseason futility.
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Girardi also said that Tanaka might be enduring a crisis of confidence because of the run of futility, which Tanaka has said was unlike anything he had experienced in the major leagues or in Japan.
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"Ordering the state's probate judges to refuse to issue marriage licenses to all couples who seek them constitutes an exercise in futility," Ronald Krotoszynski, a law professor at the University of Alabama, wrote in an email.
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Huawei has its work cut out if it wants to break into the TV market at all, and that's before you consider the futility of integrating a cutting-edge 5G modem with a next-generation display.
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The Brewers do have some help on the way, but it'll take a couple years to arrive, and after so much futility in recent seasons out of Milwaukee, fans seem ready for a Cubs-style rebuild.
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Kwame Brown can't even fucking believe it, he just lands and stands there, wondering what the hell he is supposed to do, exactly, the futility of his entire career getting replayed in two or three seconds.
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His often heavily Auto-Tuned vocals address the hopefulness, and sometimes doomed futility ("I used to think we could be friends" is the central lyric of EP highlight "Signs"), of human relationships over-top glistening beats.
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Biogen and partner Eisai Co Ltd had decided in March to end two late-stage trials of aducanumab based on a so-called "futility analysis" of data, which revealed the trials had little hope of succeeding.
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EditorsNote: Adds new 53th graf, other smaller tweaks The Tampa Bay Rays keep hanging on the fringe of contending for an American League wild-card spot, while the Baltimore Orioles reached a dubious level of futility.
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Madigan and Rauner have feuded since last summer over a fiscal 2016 spending plan, and Illinois has been without a fully-functioning operating budget since July, the longest stretch of fiscal futility in modern state history.
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Even though the Panthers have not advanced to a conference semifinal since reaching the Cup finals in 1996, a stretch of futility that included 13 defeats in 14 games, the Islanders' struggles feel weightier, more pronounced.
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In each of the last three years, Philadelphia finished with one of the worst three records in the league, a sustained level of futility that has reduced a proud franchise and fan base into a laughingstock.
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For the judicial process not to be an exercise in futility, each justice must realistically be regarded as an unpredictable swing vote, not a disengaged rubber stamp of the party of his or her nominating president.
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The official White House Snapchatter, realizing we're on the brink of simultaneous humanitarian crises across the globe and pending nuclear warfare, was overwhelmed by the futility of all existence, and just didn't bother correcting the typo.
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We're not sure when or with which discerning fan this entire YouTube genre began, but its use of shows, ranging from Spongebob Squarepants to Seinfeld, speaks to nothing if not the universal futility of modern existence.
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There's still a sense here of the futility of trying to teach a lesson, of hoping that you might be able to get people to consider their words more carefully in any form of written communication.
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Set in the trenches near the end of the war, it's a movie about a man who tries to maintain his integrity and his faith in humanity amid the stupidity, futility, cruelty and cynicism of war.
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But they must also, somehow, keep their expectations in check, because the long game is the White House, and it won't be served by the acrimony and sense of futility that disappointment in 22018 could bring.
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She could have finished her tour, separated from the service and then engaged in the free speech that every American can exercise to publicize her insights about the futility of the ongoing Afghan and Iraq wars.
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In Bruce Norris's time-shifting play "A Parallelogram," Bee sees and hears someone Jay can't: a decades-older version of herself who's puffing away, chatting with her about the futility of trying to alter the future.
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Green, a native of Castlegar, British Columbia, inherits a team that finished 2101th in the N.H.L. and was near the bottom in several offensive categories, including setting a club record for futility with just 275 goals.
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But there were other moments of damaging futility peppered throughout the year, like when they followed a sweep of the Arizona Diamondbacks by losing three out of four against the Dodgers and the Rockies this month.
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Ms. Morisseau is instead taking a more emotionally immersive approach, asking us to experience the profound feelings of exasperation — and worse, futility — that overtake a mother with a free-floating guilty conscience about her only child.
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His renowned "Novecento" (1997), a taxidermied horse suspended from a Baroque ceiling like a drooping chandelier, collapses both the martial pomposity of the Fascists and the futility of modern art to live up to classical architecture.
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It corroborated all that the Raiders had tried to dispel over the past week, after Carr's injury ruined his superlative season, upended the A.F.C. hierarchy and dampened a renaissance delayed by years of mismanagement and futility.
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As Mulvaney and his White House colleagues have deliberated the best counter-impeachment strategy for Trump to follow, the president has pursued a go-it-alone approach that raises questions about the futility of their efforts.
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Scott took over in July 2014 but lasted just two years as the team continued to regress, going 21-61 in his first campaign before breaking that franchise record for futility in the recently completed season.
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This combination of Red Sox tragedy and Patriot futility defined my relationship to professional sports until adulthood, at which point (as you may have heard) absolutely everything changed for both teams and they became insufferably dominant.
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For those who live in snow-prone regions, driving in the winter can feel like an exercise in futility: Unsuspecting, and then it appears, a crater in the asphalt, just waiting to blow out a tire.
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On the track, a departure from the lackadaisical melodies on the first half of the album to a somber piano, she sings about the futility of living and dying while trying to make a dysfunctional relationship work.
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Biogen and partner Eisai Co Ltd had in March decided to end two late-stage trials of the treatment based on a so-called "futility analysis" of data, which revealed the trials had little hope of succeeding.
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Here are the biggest calls on Wall Street on Thursday: William Blair downgraded Biogen because the Aducanumab trials were being discontinued due to an interim futility analysis determining the trials were unlikely to meet the primary endpoints.
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Sometimes death is inevitable Futility is among the most difficult concepts in medicine to grasp and accept -- the fact that at a certain point, doctors cannot eliminate or reduce disease and the prospect of death becomes inevitable.
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This idol-smashing Freud is radically different from the Freud of writers like Trilling and Rieff, who saw him as the enduring reminder of the futility of imagining that improving the world can make human beings happier.
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Cubs 217, Indians 24 | 210 innings CLEVELAND — If you are going to endure years — no, generations — of futility and heartbreak, when you do finally win a World Series championship, it may as well be a memorable one.
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While the Obama administration's method does achieve short-term wins and stack up favorable headlines, Trump himself has demonstrated the long-term futility of the "imperial presidency" as he easily undoes the executive actions of his predecessor.
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Sometimes his art addresses personal matters like relationships, but often, it's about the human existential crisis in the face of death, which Kenney presents in an absurdist, almost surreal manner calling attention to the futility of suffering.
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The main Battle of the Somme, initially a joint British-French offensive against German armies in northern France, came to represent the brutal futility of what became known as the Great War, achieving little but mechanized slaughter.
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Less concerned with questions of form and style than their autofiction forebears, these novels and stories suggest that fiction has finally begun to move from its place of deep solipsism to address a deepening sense of futility.
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Unfortunately, the resolute cry from the ball field — "The game will go on" — has a sadder parallel in the Capitol, where any hope for stronger gun safety legislation is quickly yielding to a familiar sense of futility.
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This impeachment farce is worse than an exercise in futility, or even a distraction from doing the people's business – it's doing irreparable damage to our democratic institutions and our future ability to govern for the American people.
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Judge Burton Litvack ruled against Wynn, finding that his remarks about the futility of unionizing and "derisive comments about the effects of union representation" violated workers' rights to support a union under the National Labor Relations Act.
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While Republicans did manage to secure the occasional half-loaf, be it an extension of Bush-era tax cuts or the imposition of automatic budget cuts, it was never enough to dispel an underlying sense of futility.
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But it has been a dawning sense of futility, perhaps best demonstrated in the American acceptance of relatively small concessions from Taliban in the agreement, that has driven efforts of successive administrations to find a way out.
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He now believes that black politics is an exercise in futility: The combination of white racism, racial inequality and the small size of the black electorate makes it impossible for African-Americans to achieve a political foothold.
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He now believes that black politics is an exercise in futility: The combination of white racism, racial inequality and the small size of the black electorate makes it impossible for African-Americans to achieve a political foothold.
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It is also clear, however, that Russia often does not so much intrude as amplify existing voices with which it agrees, notably on Syria, the perils of American power and the futility of economic sanctions on Moscow.
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As my observation of people approaches the fifth year, I am beginning to become pessimistic as to the direction our society is heading, and feel myself becoming more depressed as I determine the futility of it all.
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In Vides, Judge Stanton ruled in a stock options backdating suit against board members of SBC Communications that plaintiffs did not have to show demand futility to move forward with a proxy disclosure claim under Section 14.
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Whether this was an exercise in futility on the part of the Trump administration or not, it demonstrates its priority to gut the social safety net by any means—even the most poorly thought out ones—possible.
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Longtime CEO Howard Lincoln, whose name has become synonymous with Seattle's decade-plus of futility, will retire from day-to-day operations as a group known as First Avenue Entertainment LLP takes majority ownership from Nintendo of America.
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By emphasizing this futility, the artist confronts the viewer with the urgent need for environmental protections, and demonstrates that such efforts are essential not only for the land, but for the wellbeing of the people who inhabit it.
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Given companies have but a single tweet to go off, making projections is an exercise in futility given the lack of specific detail; companies have virtually no basis from which to make forward looking decisions at this point.
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With treatment for hepatitis C, there must also be counseling to get these patients into care for their addiction to avoid an "exercise in futility" by treating only "a consequence of the substance use disorder." according to Chung.
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Independent monitors who oversee and can halt blinded clinical trials for futility gave a green light to continue the Mesoblast study in April after a review of the first 270 treated patients, suggesting the therapy might be effective.
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Sunanda Sakyaputra, a Buddhist monk who had traveled to Tilaurakot to meditate, said the site of the ruined palace, a place where the Buddha "was not happy," gave him a profound sense of the futility of human suffering.
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And he saw slippage when the Warriors lost two of three games at home at the start of April, a rare stretch of futility that imperiled the Warriors' quest to catch the Bulls of the Michael Jordan era.
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As far as unanswerable sports questions go, few make for such good fodder as the what-if: the trade that fell through at the last moment, the fluke error that set off a chain reaction of multigenerational futility.
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Photo: Andrew Liszewski (Gizmodo)If you've ever been out with a big group of friends and tried to rely on text messages to get everyone back together, you already know what an act of futility that can be.
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Playlist: "El Cangri" / "Sigo Algare" / "Like You" / "Machete (Remix)" / "Bring It On" / "Me Quedaría" / "Self Made" / "Hielo" / "Vuelve" Distilling a discography as prolific as Yankee's reggaeton catalog down to handful of essential songs is an exercise in futility.
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Clinton notoriously tried and failed to swipe her way through a New York City subway turnstile on Thursday, zipping her Metrocard back and forth in futility as a crowd of cameras beamed her struggle live across the world.
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"Our world is broken, but Jesus is not," Pastor Eddie Bevill of the Parkridge Church told the congregation, in reaction to the statements some students have made about the futility of prayer as a response to gun violence.
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It's from there that she's taking this inventory of her life as a bulwark against the relentlessness of change, worrying "about everything that will disappear unless I record it," even as she recognizes the futility of the effort.
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Near the end of "All Is Calm," they allow "Auld Lang Syne" to cede to "We're Here Because We're Here," a bitter musical joke: An ode to fellowship and a ditty to futility, they share the same tune.
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The myth of the man condemned for eternity by the gods to push a boulder up a hill only to have it roll down again has long attracted those who know the solitude and futility of creative life.
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The Mets' win prevented a Nationals sweep of the four-game series, and it also ended a run of futility at home against their main divisional rivals — Washington won the first six games at Citi Field this season.
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The victory gave the Knicks a 31-51 record, tying Minnesota for the sixth-worst record in the N.B.A and finally ending another miserable season, one that will be remembered more for controversy and futility than anything else.
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By the time Reagan left office in January 1989, the Reagan Doctrine had achieved its goal: Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet system, publicly acknowledged the failures of Marxism-Leninism and the futility of Russian imperialism.
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Perhaps because they are aware of the futility of their input, fewer than half of the people in a large meeting will bother to speak and at least half of the attendees will at some point check their phones.
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Calgary dropped both ends of a home-and-home series with the Ducks, with Tuesday's 3-1 loss serving to extend the NHL's longest streak of futility against one foe with a 25th consecutive regular-season loss in Anaheim.
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I was shocked at how differently I read the book; what I held dear as a story of teen shenanigans revealed layers about heartbreak and the futility of longing, and here I was needing comfort about exactly those things!
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"I wish they could understand the futility of wasting time engaging in such a discussion when there are larger, more important challenges facing many in the black community," Woodson, the founder and president of the Woodson Center, told CNN.
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If you needed proof of the futility of yesterday's compromise no one asked for—putting Harriet Tubman on the front of the $20 bill and inexplicably moving Andrew Jackson to the back of the same bill—here it is!
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Again, Washington had a chance to acknowledge the futility of forcing Iraq into an American image and could have taken the course of action recommended by prudent senior U.S. military leaders who urged a substantial reduction of the occupation.
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At the time of this writing, there was no bill text, no agreement in principle, no whip count, and loud whispers of doubt emanating from the Hill that the effort, like the first one, is an exercise in futility.
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In "Se me olvidó otra vez" ("I'd forgotten once again"), the jilted lover waits in sad futility "in the same town and with the same people, so that when you come back you won't find anything out of place".
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Fresh off a Friday vote to reopen the government for three weeks, lawmakers described the shutdown as an exercise in futility that harmed Americans, and expressed optimism lawmakers could hammer out a legislative compromise in the next three weeks.
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The new national security adviser should be someone who grasps the futility of America's wars in the Islamic world and the fundamental inability of the US military to nation build and fix societal and cultural divisions in alien lands.
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Op-Ed Contributor Chicago — I went to my first Chicago Cubs game in 1975, over the objections of my father, who said a Cubs fan, coming to believe in the futility of human endeavor, will have a sad life.
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A missed dunk by Admiral Schofield midway through the first half served as a fitting symbol of Tennessee's offensive futility over the first 20 minutes, as the Volunteers went into the locker room at halftime down by 823-28.
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It has put up season records that include 22012-22013, 22014-20163 (twice) and 22016-22017 (five times), before the pièce de résistance: back-to-back 22018-15 and 0-16 seasons that set new standards for football futility.
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Between scenes, where we see fragments of Mei and Lei's future shadowed by loss, the screen shows the hamster in close-up — a reminder of the cyclical nature of life and the futility of trying to alter the immutable.
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His meeting Thursday morning with Senator Rob Portman, Republican of Ohio, was one of several that have lasted at least 45 minutes, with some stretching on for an hour — a considerable time given the preordained futility of the sessions.
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" Young was hailed for his composure in a Times editorial on June 21993, 25, headlined "A Noble Loser" after he lost his 24st game in a row and was closing in on the major league record for futility. "Mr.
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She came to prominence with the publication of "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" in 1961, conveying her fiercely held convictions about the futility of what passed as visionary thinking in shaping the character of urban environments.
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After 1968, President Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger adopted the war in Vietnam as their own, and prosecuted it with increasing ferocity and futility for five more years, and the war continued for another two after the American withdrawal.
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Connor McDavid has not been immune to the team's offensive futility, as the captain has recorded just one goal during the four-game slump and fallen into a tie with Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby for the league scoring lead at 60 points.
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It's bigger than that—objectification in all its guises, the futility of good intentions, the half measures passed off as progress, men who think they know what's best for them, men who think they know what's best for the world.
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And while I'm fluent in English, French, and Spanish, perhaps I'm just as guilty, leaving Japan after five years with only so-so Japanese, which made getting a comment on that sake cup box from the government an exercise in futility.
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Such trials are monitored as they go along, in order to check that a drug under test still looks safe, and also for futility—in other words, whether there is any sign that the substance is having the desired effect.
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Trump's public remarks in Las Vegas had no hint of the main themes of the Obama speech that he praised, and the White House distributed talking points to allies and the press that were all about the futility of gun control.
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Cody Davis, Artificial Brain Is Capturing the Futility of Existence Another dive into the pioneering late producer's archives, Motor City features 19 previously unreleased, untitled mixes and a new blend mix from J-Rocc with Q-Tip and Busta Rhymes.
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Where The Force Awakens usually moved too quickly to deal with the bleakness of its core conceit (which saw the Rebellion undermined, then nearly wiped out, and its heroes scattered), The Last Jedi actually embraces a sense of futility and defeat.
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In their final tuneup for this year's first Grand Slam event, Kerber, a four-time tournament winner in 2015, lost to Azarenka in straight sets in a WTA final in Brisbane, Australia, to run her record of futility to six.
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And don't even speak to me about a Bucks teams whose woes stretch out into the expanse of forever: Because after a mere 4.1 years of Bucks futility, the constitution of even the HEARTIEST of fans will become broken and withered.
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Commentary: The futility of a Mexico-United States wall In a victim-centered approach, the investigators and prosecutors would require the women in the photos to go through hours of questioning about their dating history and use of social media.
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Richie Surozenski, a retired bayman from Shelter Island, came by to see if he could get a "mess" for dinner, and realized the futility of his mission when he saw a pile of scallops that would barely fill a soup bowl.
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The ultimate futility of all accomplishment, the fascination of loneliness, the way sorrow colors our perception of the world: Pessoa's insight into his favorite themes was purchased at a high price, but he wouldn't have had it any other way.
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The show doesn't try to replicate the near-pointillist density of the book, but at its best it manages to suggest something of its allegorical weight, its recognition of the futility of trying to separate the personal from the political.
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Judge Miller acknowledged that the 9th Circuit has previously allowed federal judges to dismiss removed cases if they conclude the litigation would undoubtedly fail in state court, he said the 9th Circuit's Polo ruling cast doubt on the futility doctrine.
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That's one of many opinions floating around after Cleveland traded the No. 2 overall pick in this year's N.F.L. draft, a move that likely prevents them from taking a top-rated quarterback with the hope of ending decades of futility.
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The lack of opportunity, stress and sense of futility have contributed to a soaring rate of suicides among young men, up 35 percent to 40 percent in the first few months of 2016, compared with the same period in previous years.
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But let us be clear-eyed about the futility of forcing a bunch of guys, middle-aged or older, to sit through a one-size-fits-all harassment training session to learn what they should have learned at their parents' knees.
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Ms. Sheil described her own sense of futility and discomfort as she heard from Ms. Chubbuck's loved ones, who asked her not to revisit the sad story, and as she drew closer to having to recreate the on-air shooting.
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When it comes to seasons statistically comparable to the one deGrom is having, the results in terms of win-loss record and team success stand in anomalous contrast to the continued futility the Mets have put up in his support.
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"Biogen believes that the difference between the results of the new analysis of the larger dataset and the outcome predicted by the futility analysis was largely due to patients' greater exposure to high dose aducanumab," Biogen said in a release Tuesday.
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"While trying to predict Netflix's quarterly results has always been an exercise in futility, we believe the breadth and depth of negative sentiment creates a unique buying opportunity heading into 2020," Rich Greenfield at LightShed Partners wrote in a Oct.
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In confessing some of my feelings — my fear of indelible lead, the sadness and futility of an eraser worn down to the ferrule, the compulsion to pick up broken pencils on the street — I worried that I shouldn't go public.
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The Boy is taught his first lesson in leadership — really a lesson in the futility of love and the utility of violence: A madman has appeared claiming to be the king, and Mortimer tries to force the boy to punish him.
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And if they bothered to look beyond the scene in which senators stick it to Caesar, they would also know that this play is really about the futility and danger of using violence for a purportedly good cause like restoring democracy.
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Robin shows how Thomas's jurisprudence — curtailing voting rights and limiting regulatory powers — both assumes a political futility and exacerbates it, discouraging African-Americans from participating in the political realm and pushing them to focus their energies in the economic one.
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Increasingly, the sober-minded Marine seems to be in on the joke about the relative futility of his labors: "I'm leaving and I'm not coming back," he has told his aides, only to show up for work the following day.
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This failure of the ANSF to hold ground against the Taliban highlights the futility of trying to establish a western-style military within a state without the bureaucratic structure, rule of law, educational system, and supply chains necessary to support one.
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But this seemingly clear futility, of course, does not mean that analysts will stop making predictions or that people will cease to seek meaning in various indicators, even if they have proved mostly wrong or right only by random chance.
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He was the first senior Taliban leader to see the futility and waste of war and held secret peace talks in 2009 with the Afghan government of President Hamid Karzai and indirectly with the United States and the NATO forces.
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Wednesday's ninth-inning win against the Texas Rangers notwithstanding, this year's Yankees are not good, and they're criminally boring, but they have not yet experienced the kind of avant-garde futility that defined the last great epoch of Yankees mediocrity.
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In this new reality The Wire and Breaking Bad have still both been huge hits, the futility of the drug war is becoming more and more apparent, and conversations about harm minimisation are still gaining momentum (depending on where you're living).
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Caroline Framke: Gaad's death is fascinating for its futility alone — even the Soviets sent to question him seem floored by how clumsy and pointless it was — but it's also telling that it happened the second he thought he was in the clear.
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After years of Cleveland Browns-esque futility at the quarterback position, every smart person on the planet knows that Darnold is the franchise quarterback we've been searching for and we are poised to win something like eight Super Bowls during his tenure.
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The futility of France's laws—as well as Belgium's, which vaguely define drug trafficking in such a way that users can conveniently be treated as dealers by law—stands in contrast with successful examples of more sensible approaches elsewhere on the continent.
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The Red Wings finished 22 for 20 on the power play, and their futility was never more evident than Thursday night, when they failed to even get a shot on goal during a 24-on-13 advantage early in the opening period.
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But the Yankees, who are the worst hitters in the American League with runners in scoring position, experienced even more futility in those situations, going 0 for 6 before Aaron Hicks singled in Gary Sanchez in the seventh for their only run.
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On the recent Keith Thurman-Danny Garcia megafight in Brooklyn, female star Heather Hardy illustrated the futility of that particular perk, when she sold over $37,000 in tickets, yet the doors to the venue didn't open until her fight had already started.
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Here we see Lillard, having played a whole heap of minutes, square down against Kevin Durant, fake left, catch the bigger forward off his feet, drive right, rise up in the lane, and slam one down while David West looks on in futility.
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There are myriad reasons the United States lost its sixth straight Ryder Cup on foreign soil, a streak of futility that started after the 22016 victory at the Belfry when Bryson DeChambeau, the youngest member of this year's team, was 214 days old.
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Few artists expose the futility of that division better than Mr. Skaggs, a winner of 14 Grammys who first rose to prominence as a mainstream country star in the 1980s before pivoting back to his first love in the 1990s: uncompromising, rootsy bluegrass.
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Born in the Oslo era and privileged enough to have been born in the United States, my experience is one that reveals the futility of the Trump administration's efforts to deliver a death blow to the Palestinian drive to shape their destiny.
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In contrast to attempting to forecast the future policy or technology environment — an exercise in futility if there ever was one — foresight enables business executives to systematically manage future uncertainty by detecting emerging trends, exploring multiple plausible futures and developing contingency plans.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Magritte: This is Not a Biography is a rare thing: an adventure story, told in graphic novel form, that captures an artist's life while also playfully commenting on the futility of reducing an artist to biographical details.
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And in the context of Jack enthusiastically moving into the next phase of his life — moving forward in recovery, trying to start his own business — that he could die from such a small mistake makes the futility of his plans feel all the more tragic.
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While Delaney's messages about the acceptance of all sexual orientations, the absurdity of gun fever, and the futility of anti-government standoffs will most likely not go over well with anyone who's not already on his side of the issues, it doesn't really matter.
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It is possible the continued dismissal of police misconduct cases by police departments or the legal system — especially in incidents caught on video — has created a sense of futility, or discouragement, among some people who were first exposed to police violence incidents back in 2014.
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His unique combination of hostility and futility has always made him one of Veep's best characters, and seeing him fumble around Capitol Hill is way more fun than gritting your teeth while everyone else tries (and fails) to adjust to life on the other side.
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The weather was beautiful and the sun was fat, so we went on a vegetarian picnic in London's Regent's Park for our date, and spent most of the time talking about fuckboys, the futility of existence, and how Rihanna is a good role model.
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Republican Governor Bruce Rauner and the Democrat-led legislature face a Friday deadline to pass a budget or risk the consequences of a third-straight year of fiscal futility, including the halt of state-funded road projects and a suspension from national lottery programs.
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But these policies faced much stiffer opposition than they would have in the past, as now-common arguments over self-defense, the ability to use firearms to stand for liberty in the face of tyranny, and the futility of gun control began to spread.
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A Kindle edition exists, but it simply doesn't make sense: The book is heavily based on examples, and trying to get a handle on the core concepts of the book on a black-and-white device is going to be an exercise in futility.
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When tracked for two years instead of the six months used for the futility analysis, the percentage of active-treatment patients whose depression scores dropped by at least 40 percent more than doubled, to 50 percent of all those in the original active group.
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Despite his imposing military credentials, however, Mr. Kelly slowly realized the futility of trying to control the president, and ultimately resigned himself to a stalemate of coexistence, simply letting Trump be Trump and complaining to his colleagues about how miserable he was in the job.
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The furious winds that helped the initial spread of both the wine country fires in October and the current round of fires in Southern California have highlighted the difficulty — and at the peak of the winds, the seeming futility — of trying to stop the fires.
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Davis, who has occasionally been booed in Baltimore this season, received mostly encouragement from the 6,585 fans at Camden Yards on Monday — a number that also set a team record for futility (aside from a game in 2015 to which no fans were admitted).
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It can be comforting to reverse the feelings of hopelessness and futility that come with fighting seemingly interminable, strategically dubious wars by enforcing a hierarchy of citizenship that puts the veteran and those close to him on top, and everyone else far, far below.
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I can also underscore the general futility of some popular efforts to postpone needed joint replacements, including injections of hyaluronic acid and corticosteroids, braces, shoe inserts and opioid painkillers like OxyContin and fentanyl, none of which are recommended by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
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Eliot characterized this "mythical method" as "a way of controlling, of ordering, of giving shape and a significance to the immense panorama of futility and anarchy which is contemporary history" — a challenge that was being faced generally by writers and artists during that period.
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" Chris Summerville, CEO of the Schizophrenia Society of Canada, in an emailed statement to VICE News, said the "fear-mongering" politician is in denial of any [not criminally responsible] person's therapeutic progress and of the "science of the futility of a 'high risk' designation.
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Rather than following one protagonist through the whole game, it also bounces from character to character in different theaters of the war, each of which opens with somber, white on black text that underlines the futility and horrors of some of the worst stalemates in history.
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While it's certainly a tall task to beat an index like the S&P 500, which is in the eighth year of a bull market and continues to hit new highs, the futility has been prolonged enough to make investors question what exactly they're paying for.
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The version that lost to the Spurs in 2014's Western Conference Finals might work better if we're still hunting for a representative highlight, just for the raw futility of their otherworldly talent snared in the razorwire of San Antonio's tactics, but that seems too dour.
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By this point, half a year into a punishing tailspin, these fans must try to take comfort in the futility itself, hoping that the team's been "bad enough for long enough" to earn it a top draft pick to offer a shot at turning things around.
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This series of photographic still lives depict plastic-wrapped consumable goods, decaying fruit peels, and a discarded head of hair to reference the human tendency to frenetically preserve our slowly weakening bodies through the course of our lives, despite the ultimate, engrained futility in doing so.
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While I can't say I got all the nuances of the story back then, I did understand that it was about prejudice (less than a decade after the assassination of Martin Luther King, this topic was very fresh on everyone's mind) and the futility of war.
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Meanwhile, the Royals are on an historic run of offensive futility - becoming the first team in the majors to be blanked in four consecutive games since 12 and going scoreless for a club-record 43 innings after managing just two hits Monday in their fifth straight loss.
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An outdoor reflecting pool sprouts a dense vertical array of airplane wings in the multifaceted installation, Clear Air Turbulence, referencing the obscure origins of the Chinese aviation industry and its ties to the LA region, as well as the futility of attempting to outdistance your fate.
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All attempts to decode the Voynich Manuscript have proven futile; said futility has prompted speculation that the writing is meaningless, or hides meaning amid mostly meaningless characters (although statistical analysis has suggested that the markings in the Manuscript are consistent with those found in natural languages).
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However, Richard Halsey, the director of the California Chaparral Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection of shrub land, said the fires of the past two months had proved what he argued has become the increasing futility of brush-removal programs that might have been effective.
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CLEVELAND — Throughout more than a century of baseball in America, where teams have risen to championship heights and fallen to miserable lows several times over, and where cities have lost teams, gained them and lost them again, there was always the Chicago Cubs and their futility.
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Cotton&aposs slur against NIAC has nothing to do with curbing foreign influence and everything to do with trying to discredit a voice that has pointed out the futility of Cotton&aposs preferred policy on Iran of nothing but punishment, isolation, and the threat of war.
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The most practical consideration is that in a game in which even the Ty Cobbs and Ted Williamses make out roughly two-thirds of the time, anyone who "pimps" anything is soon going to have a pile of glaring failures pimping his futility right back at him.
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The image of a once-living fruit incorporated into a tile mosaic is jarring and, just as the symbology of Dutch still life presented notions of desire and memento mori, these ceramics subtly struggle with the ultimate futility of art to stop time, try as it might.
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"Perspectives" focuses on the futility of a politics nurtured by partisan bubbles; "Dying Man" inverts the helplessness of being unable to check a dead phone, thereby exposing the feeling's absurdity; "Pure Comedy" uses the arc of human history to make a point about the cyclical nature of power structures.
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Since it quickly reverts from the futility of the opening sequence to traditional shooter heroics for the rest of the game, it toys with the idea that the action sequences I'm playing through didn't really take place, but are the embellished memories of the soldiers who were there.
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The wing motif, which returns as triangles or squares in paintings such as "Cygnus" or the self-identified "Wing," may be an indicator of the futility denoted in Yeats's "widening gyre," but it could also be an intimation of hope among the ruins — it holds the work aloft.
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As well as arguing for the futility of attempts to control language, Mr Greene explores efforts to create more logical systems, from the 17th-century polymath John Wilkins to the 1950s creation Loglan, devised to test the hypothesis that a more logical language would facilitate more logical thought processes.
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A question likely prompted by Mitt Romney's attempt Thursday to unite Republican voters against Trump, the last question posed to all the candidates, which almost brought a level of futility to the whole two-hour debate, was if the candidates would support Trump if he were the nominee.
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"The futility of speaking to families and telling mothers their children have died has spurred a lot of us to think: what more could we have done to have actually stopped it happening?" says Duncan Bew, clinical lead for trauma and emergency surgery at King's College London Hospital.
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"Standing there last night, looking at that scene, I was forced to think about the futility of the whole thing -- the randomness of it -- as it began to become clear to us that there was no nexus between the victim and the suspect," Snyder said in a press conference.
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But on Thursday morning, as she fought through the futility of swiping her Metrocard, she revealed herself to be a mere mortal—a woman struggling through the same tiny tragedies that befall all of us who have ridden and will continue to ride the New York City subway system.
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"When Mulvaney stepped in, we saw the writing the wall and stopped advising our clients to file C.F.P.B. complaints, which anyone paying attention to what's going on at the agency can see would be an exercise in futility," said Sarah Ludwig, the New Economy Project's founder and co-director.
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Lesson Two: Don't Put Anything in an E-mail or Online That You Wouldn't Want Everyone to See The best lesson I ever learned about the internet and computer culture came from a friend who put into context the futility of my hope of ever really mastering it.
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And both have entrusted their lineup cards — and their ambitions to overcome sustained runs of October futility — to men with similarly rare résumés: Neither has ever moved from one organization to another, and neither played in the major leagues — the only managers in the postseason with those distinctions.
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It's fishing season here in Montana — the peak of it, really, if you judge the timing by the standards set back in the '70s and '80s — but the fishing, even on those days when it's not an exercise in futility, just doesn't seem as important as it usually does.
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Lew and Locks sensibly show far fewer participants than in the 2014 Biennial—sixty-three, down from a hundred and three—given the futility of trying to comprehend the ranks of serious artists, swelled by the field's wealth and glamour, who have come to number in the many thousands.
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And together with its center-right partner in crime, Reagan-Thatcher libertarianism, this liberalism's policy choices — economic and social permissiveness, effectively conjoined — created a new class divide, between thriving meritocratic hubs and a declining and demoralized heartland, that explains both the frequency of populist irruptions and their consistent futility.
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EditorsNote: tweaks headline; moves up TCU futility; minor edits throughout Will Baker scored a career-high 20 points on 53-of-12 shooting as short-handed Texas shrugged off a ragged start and outlasted visiting TCU 70-56 on Wednesday in Big 12 Conference play at Austin, Texas.
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Absent draft picks and the ability to build around youth, the Nets had the payroll of a contender while enduring four straight losing seasons — a run of futility that didn't end until this season thanks to the patient craftsmanship of General Manager Sean Marks and Coach Kenny Atkinson.
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There's a wistfulness in both of their work that constantly comes through, where you're constantly being confronted with the stupidity and heedlessness of the cosmos, and people are struggling to do good and make a difference, but there's just this crushing futility that comes down on you, in both their work.
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When Laura tries to find a needle and thread at Audrey's house to sew her arm back on, her exhausted futility is one of American Gods' best beats so far — especially when she comes face to face with Audrey, who walks into the room and promptly screams her head off.
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Futility here turned into an annual ritual: The (insert franchise name here) would start the season with high hopes, lose much of their steam via poor on-field play and horrible front-office miscalculations (see Johnny Football), and reload with a new crop of talent, only to reprise the outcome.
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As usual, acts of subtle shade, goodwill, and genuine hope for a better world were entirely lost on the president, whose Secret Service rejected the delivery of this five-figure reminder of the futility of limiting human freedom and cheapening the hope of better life on which our country was founded.
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Furthermore, parading one's child in front of the cameras may be an inevitable consequence of mega-celebrity (see under West, North), either because of the futility of keeping the paparazzi and fans at bay or because one is so accustomed to life in the spotlight that it doesn't seem tacky.
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Any diplomatic peace in Afghanistan is possible but must acknowledge the status quo on the ground, the historic Afghan aversion to centralized power in Kabul, and the futility of continuing to spend $50 billion a year in Afghanistan, and it will only occur when the U.S. directly negotiates with the Taliban.
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"She can't see the point of the repetitiveness of it all, people living to create more people and then dying when they're useless, to make room for even more people": 13-year-old Vanessa Adam reflects on the tiny circuit her life is expected to run, and recognizes its futility.
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This time I pointed out to him the sad futility of his life, pointing out how he clearly had some basic skills — good enunciation, good tone of voice — and how he could be working a legitimate job if he wanted to, yet he was pursuing life as a scam artist.
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The Knicks fan base is dedicated and has for years continued to fill the seats at the Garden, even with an agonizing run of futility: The team will most likely miss the playoffs for the seventh straight year, the longest streak of postseason misses for the franchise since the 1960s.
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For its annual Shakespeare in the Park program, New York City's Public Theater mounted a production of William Shakespeare's 22017 play Julius Caesar in Central Park — a play that, among other things, strongly warns those who commit political violence, even in service of their country, about the futility of their actions.
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Paired with McClellan's distinctive voice (each syllable has a way of catching in her throat, as if crooned through the reed of a woodwind instrument), it has this way of illustrating the futility of such unrepentant yearning, as if to say, it's kinda funny I ever thought like this to begin with.
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The most famous case of inaction was Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, who privately wrestled with the war in Vietnam, understanding the futility of the mission as well as the high toll it was taking on working-class and lower middle-class American families, yet refused to break with President Lyndon Johnson in 1968.
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On first reading, this announcement—which as an artwork is titled Thwarted Projects, Dashed Hopes, A Moment of Embarrassment—appears absurd: A person can't retire their official identity and endow themselves with a new one simply by writing a note; Piper points to the futility of such an endeavor in her last line.
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JOHN M. O'CONNOR Montclair, N.J. To the Editor: The one lesson missing from the Op-Ed article about Vietnam: the complete and utter futility of a disastrous enterprise built from start to finish on lies — lies told to the American people and our allies from the beginning and well past its end.
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Although it has been clear there's no chance of a successful impeachment, last week's House hearings with former special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE reinforced the futility of that course.
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On good days, I can take a yoga class and still feel like life's potential is still just around the corner if I'm just open to it; on bad ones, I feel such futility, like I've squandered my own youth and beauty in the hall of mirrors that is our consumerist society.
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A weak speak-up culture is often indicative of two main factors: fear among employees – of retaliation, but also that they will be shunned or may breach loyalties – as well as futility, the sense that raising issues is pointless because the organization would not actually do anything to resolve the underlying problems.
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They assail him with arguments: about his duty to God and country, the likely fate of his family, the egoism of presuming he alone knows right from wrong, the futility of a gesture that few will ever hear of and that will have no practical effect on the course of the war.
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Right next to the photograph, a sculpture of two tin cans tied by a knotted string highlights a certain futility, while on the wall opposite, "Iphigenia/Titus Andronicus"(1985) and "Hasenblut" (Hare's blood, 1971–79) symbolize the pain of the individual in the face of evil and attempts at repentance and regeneration.
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