Übersetzung für "Exercise in futility" in Deutsch

It is an exercise in futility.

The relevant passage for the following „Exercise In Futility“ is this:

Just another exercise in futility.

When it comes to ideologically-driven regimes, the bitter truth is that appeasement is an exercise in futility.

But I do hope today's wedding excursion doesn't prove to be an exercise in futility.

This is an exercise in futility.

Rather than attempt to control the masses of tourists and business travelers entering the country from all sides – essentially an exercise in futility in Switzerland – the country decided to focus police resources specifically on security threats.

The more Europe suffers, the more its people will correctly perceive an incrementalist agenda for reform as nothing more than an exercise in futility.

The World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg is, as expected, contemplating numerous bold promises, but the meeting itself is doomed to be an exercise in futility.

To attempt negotiations under these circumstances would not only be an exercise in futility, but may merely deepen alienation and suspicion on both sides.

Studying the world’s “spiritual traditions” is an exercise in futility because any spiritual tradition other than that which exalts Christ is falsehood.

This capacity to share is known as Spirituality, without which all education is a sheer exercise in futility.

While this is a great and intriguing debate, when it comes to causal players it's an exercise in futility, and here is why.

Will it do you any good or is it a pointless exercise in futility?My answer always is that the benefits of quitting smoking are enormous.

The pair do not shy from drawing obvious conclusions from their research: if the warming of the 20th century is not unusual, then it is likely natural, meaning the Kyoto accord is an exercise in futility.

Mr President, after efforts that have lasted forty years and more and that have proved to be exercises in futility, we now find ourselves once again on the starting blocks.

The performance was meant to suggest being trapped in preconception, waking up in a nightmare of purely schematic thinking, in an “eyeless” space deprived of depth and contours, while the project adapted to the local context Santiago Sierra’s practice of testing the limits, their relevance and resilience, of pushing things to political and economic extremes, creating scenarios that work like exercises in agonising futility, amassing obstacles and exacerbating antagonisms.

The performance was meant to suggest being trapped in preconception, waking up in a nightmare of purely schematic thinking, in an "eyeless" space deprived of depth and contours, while the project adapted to the local context Santiago Sierra's practice of testing the limits, their relevance and resilience, of pushing things to political and economic extremes, creating scenarios that work like exercises in agonising futility, amassing obstacles and exacerbating antagonisms.

Laudable though the impulse may be, movements to boycott Wal-Mart or reform health care or education or politics or anything else quickly become exercises in futility as they run up against the money power.