It's a doomed effort, full of condescension and confusion, like a ballet-master analyzing James Brown.

Truman, the first President to call for guaranteed medical care, complained in his memoirs of "all the fuss" over his doomed effort.

But given the high cost of our current doomed effort to turn back the global economic tides, it would more than pay for itself.

Sturgis drafted evasive replies, in a doomed effort to preserve the secret.

"It's partly a doomed effort to preserve an old way of life that's not preservable."

And in what increasingly looks like a doomed effort, they are trying to save it.

Though trying to wring love out of travel seems a doomed effort, traveling when in love can prove nourishing.

Consequently, every assault became a doomed effort.

But others saw it as a doomed effort to stop a flood with a hastily constructed dam made of sticks.

Critics, though, say the quest is a doomed effort to make an omelet without breaking any eggs.