The IRS made reasonable attempts to collect from the transferor or it would be futile .
It is tempting to put time-limits on such a venture, but that would be futile.
Sending Blodget packing when he has already quit Merrill Lynch would be futile.
And in the moments it took for them to descend on her, she realized it would be futile to lie.
To level the playing field, Delaware requires those lawyers to first ask the company to sue itself, or prove that such a demand would be futile.
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"To take this case to trial and argue that he didn't plant the bomb and someone else did it would be futile, " Rubino said in an email.
In the study, 57 percent of randomly surveyed adults said God's intervention could save a deathly ill family member even if physicians said treatment would be futile.
For instance, it would be futile for China to keep crunching down its money supply if prices are rising not because of too much money chasing too few goods, but too many rigidities limiting the output of goods.
In its defence, the government points out that kerosene taxes are set internationally, and that taxing the fuel unilaterally would in any case be futile.
It's been joked for decades that an appropriate mantra for Microsoft would be something along the lines of "resistance is futile, " but now Earth's biggest software company has been told by the European's chief competition commissioner that "non-compliance" is just as fruitless.
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said the exercise was "futile" and a waste of taxpayers' money if the plans would not be implemented.
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