1.   Each man took a swing at the other, always a futile gesture since the advent of the helmet and face mask.

2.   Her feeding tube is not extraordinary life support, not a futile gesture to sustain a life already lost.

3.   In a futile gesture, FASB vice-chairman James Leisenring and board member Neel Foster voted against the proposal.

4.   In a futile gesture, FASB Vice Chairman James Leisenring and board member Neel Foster voted against the proposal.

5.   On its face, the resolution may seem a futile gesture.

6.   Presidential apologies might have worked years ago but they are just another futile gesture in this age of perpetual investigation.

7.   And last week he let the deadline pass for asking President Bush to spare his life, saying through a lawyer that it would have been a futile gesture.

8.   Bosnian Ambassador Ivan Misic denounced the Security Council statement as a futile gesture.

9.   Sharaka said a unilateral declaration of statehood would be a futile gesture.

10.   President Suharto on Tuesday inaugurated a giant statue of Jesus Christ in predominately Catholic East Timor in what critics have dismissed as a futile political gesture.