| The caterers spent the entire time flapping their arms in a furious, but futile attempt to discourage the flies. |
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| This skid mark of wheels turning right is the only evidence of her futile attempt to avoid disaster. |
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| You shift from one leg to the other, but know that that is a fairly futile attempt to relieve your discomfort. |
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| I glanced carelessly at the door, in a futile attempt to change the subject. |
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| She did likewise, shaking her head shortly in a futile attempt at casting away the saliva that had collected from our brawls. |
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| Interestingly enough, I avoided emitting a stream of profanities as I made a completely futile attempt to steer. |
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| He was part of a team that made one last futile attempt to force radio to embrace public interest programming. |
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| The Comanche had gone into spiral mode, twisting this way and that in a futile attempt to stay airborne. |
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| The heating had failed at the hairdressers and Jerry had to keep putting on the hairdryers in a futile attempt to warm the place. |
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| The chase she describes is a futile attempt to recapture an idyllic moment of her youth. |
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| This was followed by a futile attempt to dress the night up like any other Thursday. |
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| He said many of his fellow shrimpers lost their lives when they stayed aboard their boats during the storm in a futile attempt to save their livelihoods. |
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| I jogged on the spot, making a futile attempt to slow my heart beat. |
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| Final and futile attempt of media awareness for the preservation of our most illustrious heritage in motor sport. |
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| The subsequent improvement shall be considered as failed with the second futile attempt. |
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| Even more disturbing, he gave a twisted version of his own legislation in a futile attempt to deny the clear findings of the court. |
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| The range of the institutional interests is such that it may, in fact, be a futile attempt to seek a unifying label. |
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| Australian film producers are hiring washed-up seppos to star in a local film in a desperate, ultimately futile attempt to whack a few bums on seats. |
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| The infielder makes a futile attempt at tagging the batter-runner, who is sliding head first into 2nd from the outfield side of the base. |
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| They had traveled a fair distance in small boats through rough water in a futile attempt to hide their participation in the atrocities. |
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| Brown liver spots speckled his balding head, the remains of hair long since lost, in colour and quantity, brushed over in a futile attempt to regain his youth. |
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| Copeland jumped in a futile attempt to stop another emphatic alley-oop dunk. |
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| The absurdity of North Korea now extends to its futile attempt to anticipate the whims of Mother Nature. |
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| In a futile attempt to revive this sector, the island has ramped up local tax breaks. |
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| In 1895 he delivered a moving speech before the South Carolina constitutional convention in a gallant but futile attempt to prevent the virtual disfranchisement of blacks. |
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| Do not let your imagination run away with you at the sight of death and destruction caused by the dark forces, their time is up and they lash out in a futile attempt to hide their own doubts and fears. |
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| In the last instinctive and futile attempt to protect her child, the mother has turned her back to a soldier, standing a few steps behind her, with his rifle raised and ready to shoot? |
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| At one auction in Ontario, a GAN investigator witnessed a downed dairy cow beaten and shocked with a cattle prod for over half an hour in a futile attempt to move the animal. |
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| There are speakers and a futile attempt at singing. |
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| In 1849 Southworth went to California in a futile attempt to find gold. |
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| It is the futile attempt of corrupt national leaders to cling to power. |
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| The President made known his regret on this futile attempt to hamper the development of a democratic Arab country and he expresses his solidarity to H. M. the King, the Moroccan people and the families of the victims. |
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| The Government's response has then been to spend this dwindling income stream on hiring more and more excise officers in a futile attempt to police a system wherein most of our alcohol and tobacco had now become smuggled. |
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| It is now making a name for itself as a culinary destination, which explains why I was rotating my twiglet arms in a futile attempt to keep abreast of three kayaks powered by beefy Canadians. |
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| In another strip, Fred is marooned on an island with a crate of spoons, which he busily ties to sticks and throws at the fishies in a futile attempt to catch dinner. |
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