Sentences with phrase «last futile effort»

The last futile effort any dying industry grasps.

John Thomas, brushing the flecks of sawdust from his arms after his last futile effort at Rome, so obviously wondering how the world's best high jumper could lose the one time he wanted most to win.

Not exact matches

The written law was but the last of a series of futile efforts to bring Israel to God's marriage bed by means of intermediaries.

Of course Billy Davies splashed the cash in the summer on the likes of Chris Gunter and Paul McKenna, but I can't help thinking (and hoping, I admit) that their inactivity over the last month — whether the result of complacency or masking frantic but ultimately futile behind - the - scenes efforts — may come to haunt them.

On April 27, as the U.S. Coast Guard worked with BP engineers to guide remote control submarines nearly a mile underwater in a futile effort to close a shut - off valve, BP told investors that its quarterly earnings were up more than 100 percent over the last year, beating expectations by a large margin.

Both turned up separately, but still together, last night at the LA premiere of Vicky Cristina Barcelona to support Woody Allen — a sweet but futile effort since the film is almost guaranteed to go straight to dvd.

First of all, it would now come across as a Hail Mary, a futile, last - ditch effort to remain relevant.

The last we spoke with Gert Demmink, he spoke on the fact that billions of dollars are spent on futile efforts, like employing the proverbial Chinese Army of compliance officers, most of whom may know a bit about AML, but next to nothing about the actual business and transactions.