Or perhaps the prize winners could be chosen through a lottery of the great and good as those who find their wait by the telephone to be fruitless often argue it already is.
In the chapel, it seems fruitless to argue with visitors bolstered by sheets of runes, geometric diagrams, mathematical formulas, and inside information they say links Rosslyn to everything from Mary Magdalene to the planet Saturn.
It's generally kind of fruitless to argue which definition of a "view" is most accurate or whether it's even a relevant metric.
As reports on the millions of voters began to dominate headlines on Sunday evening, the Spanish justice minister, Rafael Catalá, dismissed the vote as "fruitless and useless", arguing that it had been "carried out on the margin of any legal framework".
Efforts to find a new bank to work with have proved fruitless, Mr. Duale said, arguing that Dahabshiil follows compliance rules, requires identification and puts customer data through watch lists.
Advocates for Haitian immigrants, whose diaspora is centered in Miami, have waged a long and fruitless campaign for protected status, arguing that remittances by Haitians in the United States are a vital source of aid — more than $1 billion each year.
And I could see that arguing about whose fault it was would be fruitless and would just make the situation much worse.
Commanders in the American military's most elite Special Operations unit are arguing that their troops should be freed from a fruitless hunt in Afghanistan for Osama bin Laden, military and intelligence officials say.
They even argue about arguing.
