1.   But critics say that CNA is fighting a futile battle to turn back the clock in health care.

2.   But for the first time in years, the proximity might make compromise, at least on a few matters, more likely than futile battle.

3.   Habibie, a longtime protege of Suharto, has waged a mostly futile battle to establish legitimacy since being thrust into office.

4.   I fought them back for a while, then discovered, as longtime mountain people knew I would, that mine was a futile battle.

5.   She did not want to die, but she had no desire to incur additional suffering in a futile medical battle.

6.   She artfully portrayed his vain wife, who consorts with shallow lovers in a futile battle against age.

7.   Weld quit that job back in July to engage in a futile battle to become ambassador to Mexico.

8.   But he believes that the grouping is not altogether fighting a futile battle.

9.   More than a million people died in that civil war as southern Ibos waged a futile battle to establish an independent homeland in southeastern Nigeria.

10.   More than a million people died in that civil war as southern Ibos waged a futile battle to establish an independent homeland.