1、It was a futile effort.

2、A futile effort, too: Beijing won the games, and some would say the argument.

3、But Confucianism which was dying prove the making a futile effort of the former.

4、I hadn't participated in the walk for several years, mainly because it seemed like such a 11 futile effort.

5、After a long period of seemingly futile effort to put the problem on hold, it is best to turn it over to the subconscious for the time being.

6、To date, the sum of my gardening experience had been futile efforts to rid the flower beds of grass.

7、Mr Samuelson, an economics columnist for the Washington Post and Newsweek, graphically recounts the futile efforts of various presidents to contain inflation, and the toll they exacted.

8、She believes that a truth: as long as the earnest in work, time will be wasted, who was seemingly futile efforts, are in fact a kind of accumulation, there will certainly be a return.

9、Having no idea what to do, she waits for the ambulance, accompanies it to accident and emergency and then goes back to the pub after futile efforts at resuscitation.