1.   Minutes later a team of paramedics began a futile effort to revive the boy.

2.   Sundays he slept even later than usual, in a futile effort to avoid the day.

3.   As a last resort, she tailed her brother to a TV appearance in a futile effort to plead her case.

4.   As he tells it, he spent most of his tenure in futile efforts to shift the elephantine Apple bureaucracy.

5.   At first, I was annoyed, feeling as though this was just one more futile effort.

6.   Before moving in, police waited while the robbers used hammers, sledge hammers, and a power tool in a futile effort to pry open the display case.

7.   But Clinton had often strayed from that theme in his mostly futile legislative efforts to woo the handful of GOP votes he needed to pass his programs.

8.   Byrd ground his elbows to the bone in the futile effort.

9.   Cospito said of his futile efforts to persuade his insurer, Travelers.

10.   Critics attacked these kinds of US and UN eradication strategies at the recent UN drug summit as futile efforts that are destructive for local economies.