41.   Rangers devotees Maggie Hession and Frances Evans, Roman Catholic nuns, waved paper fans in a futile attempt to keep cool.

42.   Ron Gant made a futile attempt at a diving catch, and the ball got by him and rolled toward the corner.

43.   She lay motionless except when her hands moved feebly in a futile attempt to cover her nakedness.

44.   Thailand will use the money to help shore up its foreign reserves, depleted by a futile attempt to save the baht from being devalued last month.

45.   The fact that some of those competitors are subsidized by their governments no longer justifies the futile attempts to match them with American taxpayer dollars.

46.   The government is believed to have spent billions of dollars in November in the forward market in a futile attempt to keep the won from falling sharply.

47.   The script had been optioned by a studio, but after many futile attempts to recast it as a mainstream feature, it had been dropped.

48.   There was no reason in the world to risk the lives of law enforcement personnel in a futile attempt to save the Davidians from their leader and themselves.

49.   They say controlling tunnel traffic would be easy compared with their often futile attempts to stop the traffic in illegal immigrants across the Strait of Gibraltar.

50.   They went on to twist their minds and spirits, canker their hearts and squander their worldly goods in ultimately futile attempts to assert their own power and dignity.