Sentence examples for for fruitless from inspiring English sources
For fruitless sanctions to be avoided, the mantra of William Burns, the U.S. under secretary for political affairs who will attend multilateral talks with Iran starting Thursday, must be: "Widen the canvas".
These issues can be the grist for fruitless debate, full of cheap point-scoring, and if Mr. Bush were meeting with Boris Yeltsin tomorrow, that's what he might get.
I refer to the three-decade, multimillion-pound struggle to build (or rather, not build) a visitor centre at Stonehenge, which has seen several proposals come and go, architects hired and released, public inquiries held, politicians vacillate, and consultants paid for fruitless work.
As an example of the utility of the PMMA-based immobilization strategies developed for MBs, we report on the analysis of complementary DNAs specific for fruitless (fru) and Ods-site homeobox (OdsH) genes extracted from Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies.
He shared responsibility with Mr. Obama for a costly delay in floor action to allow for extended, fruitless negotiations between Senator Max Baucus, Democrat of Montana, and Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa.
The films of Alain Resnais have long been a magnet for such fruitless devotion.
Inevitably, Holbrooke got himself assigned to Averell Harriman's staff for the fruitless early stages of the Paris peace talks.
It is unclear how much these particular Rohingya owe the traffickers for their fruitless ordeal.The boy is "happy" to be back now, but would gladly try again.
The Serbs and the Kosovo Albanians will convene for more fruitless meetings in Vienna next week, after which Mr Ahtisaari will send his plan to the UN.
I could try calling Time Warner Cable's help line, but years of frustration have diminished my appetite for largely fruitless phone exchanges with cable personnel.
Placer paid $1.1 billion in 1999 for a fruitless investment in the Getchell Gold Corporation, which owned a supposedly rich gold deposit in Nevada.
