Sentence examples for appears fruitless from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

Her effortful retreat from the world appears to be almost fruitless, in every sense: a care package of apples delivered midway through her stay brings her to grateful tears, shed both for the kindness and the nutritional content of the gesture.

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.

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.

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

For one thing, Israel appears bent on pursuing the fruitless path of retaliation against the PA (albeit now without US sanction).

Alternation of reproductive years with fruitless, vegetative years appears to be one of the strategies devised by nature for balancing trees' sexual reproduction with the required perpetuation of vegetative growth and retrieval of nutritional resource, both of which are necessary for the organism's survival.

In Drosophila, the action of the male-specific isoform of fruitless in about 2000 neurons appears to be necessary and sufficient for many aspects of male courtship behavior.