51.   Those efforts have raised investor concern that the central bank may be rapidly depleting its foreign exchange reserves in a futile attempt to avert a significant devaluation.

52.   Until now the United States has laid too much stress on a futile attempt to uproot drug production.

53.   Validation comes not from identifying a future superstar or from the futile attempt to create one.

54.   Walsh joined Campbell in a futile attempt at cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

55.   Pakistan interceded for Washington with Taliban rulers in Afghanistan in a futile attempt to have Osama bin Laden extradicted.

56.   Palffy scored on a breakaway that sent Nashville goalie Mike Dunham sprawling backward on the ice in a futile attempt to stop the point-blank shot.

57.   A few soldiers and civilian defense workers have even sued in futile attempts to get their wages.

58.   After a few futile attempts to speak, the bodyguards then pushed him off the stage.

59.   Before police opened fire, eyewitnesses said, they tear-gassed the protesters in a futile attempt to disperse the crowd.

60.   Before police opened fire, they tear-gassed the protesters in a futile attempt to disperse the crowd, the witnesses said.