Perhaps this is too futile a goal and art is not enough of an action to be an actual catalyst for change.
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.
Unfortunately, the Achilles heel of this strategy is that it depends on the retailer to set up and maintain the signage often a futile hope, while at the same time a critical portal for the shopper.
Faced with what looked like a futile battle, many European investors sold out at a loss.
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.
Wang, who has owned the team since 2000, announced in October that the Islanders were moving to Brooklyn after a futile, nine-year attempt to replace the Coliseum, the team felt a sense of relief.
But at least he has accomplished one thing with this futile struggle: a higher profile.
The road map has already proven a futile and potentially dangerous diversion from that path.
Rather than make a futile appeal to the Supreme Court, McVeigh again accepted the sentence.
The embargo may be a futile gesture, but it is not an empty gesture.
They still offer too many models in a futile attempt to be all things to all consumers.
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Looking at our societal crisis from the standpoint of economists is a futile, and actually distractive, error.
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To propose that we superannuate our voting system is a futile gesture, because it smacks of sour grapes.
The third suffers from paralysis of analysis, in a futile search for certainty.
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Instead, many now blame Hamas for recklessly dragging them into a futile war that devastated their already beleaguered territory.
To me, rationing futile care is a way to give back patient autonomy.
Smith, the NBA's top sixth man, scored 19 points, most coming in a futile attempt to rally his team late.
Diplomat and crossbencher Lord Hannay of Chiswick called the government's plan to repatriate powers from Brussels "a futile displacement activity".
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said the exercise was "futile" and a waste of taxpayers' money if the plans would not be implemented.
With streets sloshing with dirty water during the day, the 44-year-old, who works on a commercial fishing boat, admitted hers was a futile task.
Once again, he has certainly made mistakes, not least in choosing a lame running mate and engaging in a futile debate about the debates.
But eventually they may go up as workers make a futile attempt to maintain their standard of living with dollars that are steadily losing value.
Comparisons between the PlayBook and the iPad is a futile exercise.
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If big growth is out of reach, do not destroy the value in a healthy mid-size company in a futile attempt to reach for the moon.
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Mr Mahuad, whose big achievement was to end a futile 60-year border dispute with Peru and cut military spending, claims he was the victim of army revenge.
Japan maintained bargain-basement rates in a futile attempt at stimulus.
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.
But many of those seeming thugs are carrying guns for the same reason that people who consider themselves respectable carry them : in a futile quest to protect themselves with greater firepower.
Our tendency to view copyright as being about copying has led to a futile campaign to stamp out every last infringing copy on the Internet, and it has also caused people to assume that allowing copying means abandoning copyright protection.
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