Sentences with phrase «futile effort for»

Now Buffett, as someone who over the course of his investing career has significantly outperformed the S&P 500, knows that it is not an entirely futile effort for those who enter the field.

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Finally, a growing number of union leaders are abandoning the futile efforts to achieve incremental reforms of the current ossified and defunct labor law and instead are calling for opening up labor law to encourage and protect workers who experiment with these and other more fluid and varied activities free from reprisals.

But if you're looking to leave for philosophical reasons concerning privacy, it's a futile effort.

Coal's «natural» rate of decline may not be fast enough to meet long - term US carbon goals — for that, it will need a policy boost — but it is fast enough to render Trump's effort utterly futile.

Of quietly shutting bedroom doors in a futile effort to keep tinies sleeping in and, oh, sing for that first cup of tea.

As one realizes what reality is, and sees the frantic and futile efforts people make to control it for the supposed interests of an illusory self, one is filled with compassion.

Arguing for them not to believe in something that they've been taught to be true since they could speak is a futile effort.

For this reason, efforts to prevent sinful humans from tampering with the pristine character of holy writ are futile.

Jesus is the only way to heaven — his sacrifice on the cross for the forgiveness of sins is the only way to have your sins forgiven — every human effort to save ourselves is futile as our own works are worthless in the sight of a Holy and perfect God.

This is too much for Peter, tired and dispirited from a whole night's futile effort in his fishing boat.

This is a futile effort as the more science discovers, the less relevant religion becomes and the need (not that there ever really was a true need) for god (s) diminishes.

I was initially devestated at the thought of not being able to give them breastmilk until I started pumping - first as a supplement, then I gave up the futile effort to nurse and pumped exclusively for over a year for my son and am now 4 weeks into pumping for my daughter.

The Headmistress was quoted as saying that several efforts to get desks for the children had proven futile.

Waiting for the government may be a futile effort.

Some have argued that the British public are opposed to a larger effort to help, and that in any event such efforts are futile as we can not hope to support all those displaced by this conflict, nor can support for refugees resolve the crisis that has led them to flee in the first place.

Our reporter gathered that efforts to sit Onjeh down for a one - on - one chat with Mark by his associate had being futile, as the opponent seems to be adamant and was not ready to shift ground.

In November, after the Democrats lost the Senate, de Blasio wrote a Huffington Post op - ed chastising red - state Democrats for abandoning their «core values» in a futile effort to win the midterms.

All efforts to revive cocoa farming in the community proved futile as their lands were no longer suitable for cocoa cultivation.

The inquiry notes that there were several futile efforts to set up a national registry in which U.K. nuclear facility workers could volunteer for postmortem studies.

The authors call for the development of clinical guidelines to support physicians in their effort to reduce potentially futile drug treatments near the end of life.

This time around I'll be focusing on the 10 × 10 community and my 10 × 10 goals for the next 10 days so I won't be blogging until my wrap up post on April 9th (it seems my blogging efforts are futile anyway during challenges).

He agrees to babysit the boy for the summer in exchange for some quick cash, which then he blows in a futile effort to get back on his feet.

Newtown (Unrated) Political gridlock expose» chronicling a grieving Connecticut community's futile lobbying effort for gun reform legislation in the wake of the mass murder of 6 teachers and 20 students at an elementary school.

Their search for protection proves futile, until Jacob, dulled by an opium addiction but still deadly, joins the effort.

After efforts to repair the guardrail proved futile, the race was subsequently restarted for...

It certainly has, and «nailing Jell - o to the wall» is no my favorite term for a futile effort!

Catch and kill is a futile effort that has failed for decades — with hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars wasted and, worse, millions of healthy cats killed.

This is not because of any of the propaganda issued for more than a century in support of aggressive catch - and - kill and poisoning campaigns that killed millions of dogs in futile efforts to stop rabies before the advent of neuter / return.

Catching and killing cats has been a futile effort used by animal control and shelters across the country for decades.

And the tenacity of our efforts to catch a salmon for ourselves, however futile, was testimony to the intrinsic power of this astonishing creature...

Reconstructing these three standards must overcome an immense cultural hurdle, but in the end the effort will be futile because what is needed are strictly objective standards for the models of any science.

My mother believed passionately that unless we could SEE this ordinary woman and REACH her, with information, ideas, appropriate technologies, and a sense of her own capacity for action, any efforts to conserve the environment, protect forests and watersheds, end poverty and practice genuinely sustainable development would be futile.

If you ever have a bad moment (and all warriors for truth do, from time to time) and feel that all your valiant efforts are hopelessly futile, remember this:

by Kyeann Sayer «After all of your futile stain removal efforts, the offending garment must be banished: a wardrobe pariah no longer acceptable for long lunches or casual Fridays.

But if you're looking to leave for philosophical reasons concerning privacy, it's a futile effort.

Despite your best efforts, pleading, and begging for change, this is all futile until the person that is struggling actually wants to make a change.

The Buddha began his teachings on our enlightened nature with a simply profound observation: In our search for genuine peace and happiness, it is ultimately futile to focus our efforts on trying to avoid suffering.

And, I know, the «attempts» for many alienated and estranged parents includes years & years of futile efforts.