Following three months of fruitless talks to reach a cash-for-reform deal with creditors, public finances have never been worse.
But such regulations for storeowners like Hadi have proven fruitless.
Mark Rutte, the centre-right Dutch prime minister, threw in the towel on Monday, submitting his resignation to Queen Beatrix after seven weeks of fruitless haggling over colossal spending cuts, which are required to comply with new European rules he has done much to design.
Against the wall lie banners with the slogan "We value the arts: against 100% arts cuts", left over from 2010's fruitless struggle against Somerset Council.
Coltart too might not have tamed the Tiger under any circumstances, but with a huge crowd lining the 9th fairway it is disgraceful that he was allowed to spend five minutes on a fruitless search deep in the woods for his ball when all the while it was nestling in the semi-rough only a few feet from the fairway.
Spurred by a sense of injustice and disappointment, she has spent six years writing a hefty tome which she claims is the "true story" and is pursuing so far fruitless legal battles.
At 26, Walcott is already an England veteran, largely due to Sven-Goran Eriksson's ultimately fruitless gamble in introducing him to a World Cup squad as long ago as 2006.
This is the first in a succession of Carrie's fruitless attempts to find happiness.
In a hard-hitting article for the French daily Le Monde, the leader lambasted the uncompromising approach of the EU, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund for five months of fruitless negotiations.
And not just because surely nobody wants another weekend like the last, which felt like something close to Peak Referee, a collective nausea of fruitless outrage.
Last month, the Guardian sued the Chicago police department after attempts at acquiring official police records about Homan Square under the Freedom of Information Act proved fruitless.
