But House Republican Leader Jim Durkin said the bill was a futile exercise.

We know that the banking inquiry is a futile exercise.

It would be a futile exercise, anyway, because I'd surely overlook one critical surface.

Forcing them to go out was a mostly futile exercise.

Besides, it is a futile exercise that has failed elsewhere.

I do agree that change for the sake of change can be a futile exercise.

It would be a futile exercise to try and identify those people now, he said.

Often, streets are a futile exercise in organizing disorder.

So, taken as a whole, letting my head open for my brother had been a futile exercise.

Collecting and maintaining data that you can never use is a futile exercise that causes distress without results.

It was a futile exercise anyway.

It was a futile exercise.

Madam, - Rehabilitating the good name of ragwort is probably a futile exercise due to the national neurosis surrounding it.

It's a pretty futile exercise in the short term now that the starter's gun has sounded for the general election.

He said it turned out that was a futile exercise and he and his client were happy with the outcome.

Or you can tell the competition to join you instead of partaking in the futile exercise of fighting your Goliath strength.