Sentences with phrase «making futile efforts»

He stood stiffly amidst other residents of Orin Ekiti, who had been making futile efforts to console him following the loss of his wife, Mnwaga, 25, and their unborn baby.

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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.

In the gospel according to Judas there is no forgiveness, there is just sin and the futile effort to make things right on your own.

But that does not make the effort futile or the results worthless.

It drains all their energy in defending and makes their defending efforts futile.

As long as we don't make quality signings, all these matches are almost futile efforts.

At - least there was effort on Arsene's part no matter how futile, the board could've said right then, he really wants this kid sure he's visiting the family home, so lets make this happen whatever it takes.

In reality, succumbing to any of these two naïve approaches can actually obstruct your progress and not having a game plan that lets you meet all your caloric and macronutrient needs will make your gym efforts more or less futile.

Do you think your age is proving to be a bottleneck that is making your efforts to finding the right partner futile?

At times, the efforts I make in lesson planning can feel futile.

In this market, when it seems that even finding an agent willing to take on an author's project can mean years of querying and futile efforts of trying to make connections, many authors are shifting their focus away from the business end of publishing in favor of a lower key approach that allows them to retain control over their work and spend more time writing with less time trying to become published.

Doing either will make your efforts futile.

Nintendo tried to prolong its lifespan with the Game Boy Micro, but the effort was all but futile: consumers the world over made it known that the Nintendo DS was the future.

if those sequels were really unnecessary then you just did an futile effort: It is like you make a journey without knowing what moves you and what expects you on the end.

It would make efforts to control climate futile.

«Judge Posner basically thinks that efforts to engage the unengaged are futile or otherwise not worth it, and a view of democracy that accepts that 50 % of the population doesn't vote is preferred to one that asks how can we get more people to engage to effect decisions made by others that impact on their lives... «I think this view is so depressing I can't envision how he wrote 400 pages describing it.

The iPhone's touchscreen responds to the electrical response from a user's fingertips, according to AppleInsider, which makes typing with gloves on a futile effort.

This is particularly problematic because even if the supervisor makes an effort to develop a more effective relationship with a counterdependent employee, these efforts will likely be futile.

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.