81.   The soldiers made a futile attempt to stop the refugees from resettling in their camps.

82.   They made futile attempts to clean up graves and right toppled gravestones.

83.   Trapped inside, the men clawed at the mud walls in a futile attempt to escape.

84.   Du Plessis hinted the Springboks might adopt a different and possibly more conservative game after numerous futile attempts to fling the ball wide against the Wallabies.

85.   Protestant and Roman Catholic clergymen met with nationalist protestors Wednesday in a futile attempt to head off sectarian violence at a Protestant parade here Saturday.

86.   Squeak was in his vehicle when Ford tried to crash through a fence surrounding his homestead in a futile attempt to escape his killers.

87.   Soares-Kemp said traders had begun buying dollars and selling yen after futile attempts to push the US currency lower against the Japanese currency.

88.   The failed uprising was a futile attempt to derail elections that ended his five-year hold on the governorship of a Muslim self-rule region.

89.   The Greek government said Tuesday that it had made several futile attempts to discuss the problem of illegal immigration with Turkish authorities.