From this futile mission he returned to England in August, 1238, to find himself reduced to a cipher.

He found its Spanish defenders full of fight and found it necessary to abandon the futile mission four days later.

From this futile mission he returned to England in August 1238 where his efforts to foster reform were frustrated.

Then, saying that everybody is already of Christ, whether they know it or not, can make the mission futile.

You don't send soldiers to carry out a futile mission after the political outcome has already been set.

On many days fiction seems like a futile mission.

One futile mission seemed to beget another.

He knew with certainty he was being sent on a futile mission so that shame might be attached to one of his clan cousins.

Of course this was a futile mission; if Jupiter had been cold to Mercury before, it was frigid now.

Frank and Joe started up the craggy mountainside, each wondering if they were on a futile mission.