Sentence examples for appeared fruitless from inspiring English sources

Likewise, the attempts to draft Nixon or Lodge appeared fruitless.

His efforts at first appeared fruitless, but Holmes' dissenting opinion in Abrams v. United States in November 1919 urged greater protection of political speech.

Instead, her book arrives at a useful and perhaps unexpected cultural inflection point: a time when political accommodation appears fruitless, and when, as Amanda Hess noted in the _Times Magazine _this week, many middle-class white women have marched in closer proximity to far-left ideas than perhaps they ever would have guessed.

Her advisers' steady attacks on Mr. Obama appeared to prove fruitless, if not counterproductive, and the attack-dog role of former President Bill Clinton seemed to have backfired.

Tischendorf reached the monastery on 31 January; but his inquiries appeared to be fruitless.

The proposal is one of the central planks of the Leveson report and follows what appear to be fruitless behind-closed-doors cross-party talks on how to respond to the report.

It wasn't until 2007 that the first cracks in the relationship appeared during Liverpool's protracted and ultimately fruitless pursuit of Gabriel Heinze, the United defender.

In late July 1992, Karadzic appeared on ITN's evening news during yet another fruitless "peace conference" in London, to discuss the slaughter in Bosnia.

The endeavours of the investigator appear to have been fruitless.

Mr. Brynien and Mr. Donahue met with Mr. Paterson on Wednesday to discuss how to resolve the impasse, but those talks appear to have been fruitless.

With France and Spain also unwilling to oppose Juncker, preferring to focus on commission portfolios for their nominees, and the Swedes and Dutch unwilling to oppose Germany's will, Cameron's long and determined search for allies appears to have been fruitless.