Sentences with phrase «one's futile attempts»

Well I see this is just another gimmick in futile attempt to control the lending rates of bank and complicate things for all.

We continually fighting against ourselves in an ultimately futile attempt.

Our best plan of action now would be to focus on how to deal with climate change once it arrives in force, instead of the current futile attempts to stop it from happening.

This uncertainty and the insanely volatile nature of cryptocurrencies led to futile attempts aimed at providing a theory that predicts cryptocurrency activities in the normal sense.

The character of King, for example, may seem like a typical mean leader, possibly even a bully, but soon reveals how he is frustrated at by his own futile attempts at trying to protect his village and the people he cares for, and has become angered and desperate because of it.

Alilu further said that the prosecution also made futile attempt to serve the ex-governor through the DSS.

In March, following an adorable but futile attempt by Arsenal fans to somehow shoehorn Alexander Lacazette into the debate, things came to a head.

It is born in part, however, out of my own futile attempt to «recover» a lost faith by willing that it reappear.

The setup is rife with potential, as two married men fantasize about their respective pasts as single men, only to be confronted head - on with how futile the attempt to recapture the glory days really is.

The giant nuclear powers stand at each other's throats in a frantic and probably futile attempt to find security based on ever - more - effective means of killing people.

Likewise, attending school in a well - to - do community aggravated my sense of my own poverty and forced me to engage in multiple, mostly futile attempts to mask it.

Spend any length of time in the real estate industry and you will hear buzz words like «Unique Selling Proposition,» «Value Add,» and the like tossed about as real estate brokerages volley back and forth in usually futile attempts to differentiate themselves from each other in their on - going quest to hire more real estate agents.

But the play was called back on a holding penalty on right guard Nick Haynes, forcing the Wildcats to scramble to get back into position for MacGinnis's final futile attempt.

``... let me sum up this whole «news» story for you: Aging, scared newspapermen throw themselves at the latest mobile technology trend in a humiliatingly futile attempt to remain relevant.»

As for safety at home, he joined Connecticut's other U.S. senator, Chris Murphy, in a 15 - hour filibuster this year in a sadly futile attempt to force votes on bills that would keep weapons out of the hands of suspected terrorists.

I'm sure I am not alone, as I have spoken to numerous people who have struggled to meditate successfully, and more who have given up on it after a few futile attempts.

If you have — chances are you're rolling your eyes at its persistent but seemingly futile attempts to break into the...

B+N sells books, they don't have an «App Store» or it's ilk so no revenue stream there and consequently no real financial incentive for the ever futile attempts to stop jail breaking as performed by a certain fruit themed company.

Problem is, many decisions made in the name of boosting returns or increasing diversification are actually futile attempts to outguess the markets or to throw money into the Next Big Thing being touted by Wall Street's marketing machine.

All levels of government in Australia are crying poor yet they shamelessly continue to pour millions of dollars into the bottomless AGW pit to follow the billions already wasted in a totally futile attempt to achieve their farcical stated objective of «stopping climate change»!

Michael's obsession with defecation and Eddie's futile attempts at sexual relations, along with plenty of dialogue about surgically enhanced body parts, quickly become tiresome.

From 1925 until his death in 1955 — more than half his professional years — he devoted himself to an ultimately futile attempt to subsume relativity and quantum theory under a more general unified theory.

Nowhere is this more apparent than in the infamous cetological passages, which in showing just how obsessed Ishmael is with gaining a masterful understanding of his world also demonstrates how futile that attempt is.

• The Golden Globes have clarified their rules for what drama and comedy mean in a probably futile attempt to get campaigns to stop trying to game the system.

Scientists on both sides of the argument ought to put more emphasis on adequate preparations for possible changes whatever they might be rather then on the mostly futile attempt to convince one another and the public.

Whenever I placed a newspaper ad, it was often for one of three reasons; to promote myself, to appease a seller or as a last - ditch and usually futile attempt to generate prospects.

«Amgen is seeding the publication with reports on its own futile attempts to replicate three studies in diabetes and neurodegenerative disease and hopes other companies will follow suit.

I take an eight - minute video of the convention floor in a futile attempt to convey its bigness.

The government also has pumped vast sums of money into these banks by letting them speculate against the central bank's futile attempts to defend the ruble's exchange rate, a policy whose main effect has been to subsidize capital flight.

Biodiversity loss in Canada is like a fast - sinking ship and we're using a Dixie Cup to bail water out, in a futile attempt to stay afloat.

So basically evolution is nothing more than a manifest of futile attempt to survive in an environment that is decaying.

Religion does not do this and to suggest the bible has any sort fo science in it is a futile attempt to distort what it says to fit your argument, somthing you must be getting pretty good at.

Furthermore, since God can apparently read minds, He will easily see through your futile attempt at deceiving Him and send you to Hell.

I am not a Catholic, but I also know that all priest do not engage in this behavior so your futile attempt at sick humor was dumb at best.

Ambulances blared their sirens in all but futile attempts to rescue those who were overcome.

Do you ever post anything other than futile attempts to change others behavior?

After a drunken rant about her futile attempts to be good, the camera cuts to show the bartender himself — it's Danson's character, Michael (seeing Ted Danson polishing a glass and cutting lemons again is spine - tingling in the best way).

And as with almost every biblical film that has preceded this one, the story's passion is completely lost in yet another futile attempt to re-present a multitude of facts in the fond hope that if enough details are repeated, the truth will emerge.

I can assure you that your assurances are worth nothing to me other than being a source of amusement while I giggle at your futile attempt at making me feel guilty for not believing as you do.

Truthteller needs to realize that out of 7 billion on this planet, SIX billion aren't X-tians... does that mean that he / she will travel the globe in a futile attempt to save everyone?