An example of this is given by Herodotus's detailed account of the futile Persian campaigns against the Scythians.

Its few opponents, led by a pesky group from Lloyd Harbor and their lawyer, Irving Like, were seemingly engaged in a futile campaign.

Mr. Tong may have reached the end of his story now, the final tragedy to cap his futile campaign.

That's a lot more fresh people receptive to the arguments for improving conditions on the road, outweighing the more seasoned curmudgeonly views that it's a futile campaign.

His division was redeployed to eastern France for Emperor Napoleon's final futile campaign in 1814.

But even some admirers questioned what they saw as Ms. Chisholm's futile campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, in which she did not win a single primary.

The chief of staff personally led the high-risk - and ultimately futile - campaign of March to uphold the veto of a highway construction bill.

The West Pakistani press waged a vigorous but ultimately futile campaign to counteract newspaper and radio accounts of atrocities.

As a result, Hirotsugu initiates a futile military campaign in the 9th month of the same year.

It is high time that Europe admits this geopolitical feature by quickly ceasing its futile inquisitorial campaigns.