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At this point, I recalled a long-ago futile effort to unclog my junk e-mail account.
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But the drive for sanctions has been a frustrating and some say futile effort.
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Rather than lead yet another futile effort to eliminate North Korean nuclear weapons, Washington should disengage from the Korean peninsula.
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The Knicks went back to their regular lineup, reinserting Pablo Prigioni, after going with a bigger group in Game 4 in a futile effort to match Indiana on the boards.
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To sustain the euro, the countries of southern Europe are cutting government expenditures and raising taxes in a futile effort to balance their budgets in the throes of a worsening recession.
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And it will also fail in a more important way: the futile effort to create this Utopia will do great and irreversible harm to all manner of things that right-thinking societies hold dear.
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In a sequence that really said it all, point guard Raymond Felton found a wide-open Tyson Chandler for an alley-oop, but Chandler somehow missed the dunk, then fumbled a futile effort at a put back.
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Cambara waits for him to push the door shut, which he does with a squeak, and she watches him as he turns the wobbly handle a couple of times in a futile effort to secure it, notwithstanding its state of malfunction.
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The effort was futile: the monetary pressure wasn't eased, and collapsing trade only added to the plight of industry.
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And unfortunately, they're wasting a lot of time, as I was saying, on an effort that is pointless and futile.
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