Sentences with phrase «more futile effort»
George Clooney's charisma and powerful screen presence have never been more integral to a film, nor used in a more futile effort, than in THE AMERICAN, a virtually silent opus that trades on Clooney's unassailable ability to seduce the camera.
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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.
In his 1940 essay, «Why the Christian Church is not Pacifist,» Reinhold Niebuhr wrote: «Nothing is more futile and pathetic than the effort of some [Christians] who find it necessary to become involved in the relativities of politics, in resistance to tyranny or in social conflict, to justify themselves by seeking to prove that Christ was also involved in these relativities, that he used whips to drive the money - changers out of the Temple...»
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.
Ms. Been argued that the city could use a toolkit of zoning, tax abatements and public financing to encourage the private market to accommodate more low - income people — but said efforts to stop the city's shifting real estate landscape are futile.
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.
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.
Students appreciated a model in which their efforts wouldn't be entirely futile even if they slipped up or needed more time.
Beyond extolling personal virtue and effort, the story of the hummingbird also suggests that the single bird's actions are futile without the assistance of the larger animals — such as the elephant, who could of course carry much more water — or the concerted effort of all the animals to do something.
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.
The goal is to force governments into taking ever - more draconian measures against their people in a futile effort to stop it.
Again, he must feel that his efforts are futile when he observes that areas are classed as submarginal when he knows that all that is required is the application of a little more of the type of scientific agriculture which he is trying to teach.
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.
«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.
Whereas some companies tend to throw everything against the wall in a futile effort to see what sticks, Apple tends to be much more judicious when deciding which product category is worth entering.
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.