Sentence examples for fruitless campaign from inspiring English sources
The first world war was a long, morale-sapping and ultimately fruitless campaign.
FOR years, Fred Nile, a clergyman-member of the New South Wales parliament, has been fighting a fruitless campaign to ban Sydney's Mardi Gras, Australia's biggest gay event.
Energized by that concession, opposition figures and human rights workers are suggesting that Mr. Said's case could be a turning point in their long and previously fruitless campaign to root out what they call a culture of brutality and abuse.
Yet her country's unnecessary short-sale restrictions are eerily redolent of the paranoid and fruitless campaign that the Richard S. Fuld Jr., Lehman's chief, waged from his Seventh Avenue aerie before his firm collapsed.
But rather than lie low after landing a job as an English instructor at a provincial university near here, he banded together with other aggrieved foreign teachers in a largely fruitless campaign for equal treatment.
There was nothing glorious about this latest Scottish failure and, though everyone should be spared the tired cliches and sob stories after the sharing of four goals to close another fruitless campaign, they will keep on coming, of course.
In 1339 and 1340 he fought in Philip's fruitless campaigns against Edward III.
They had sought to make history in the country's first appearance at a European Championship but Poland beat them to it, recording their first victory in the finals of this competition after two fruitless campaigns.
So, this afternoon, the French-Canadian was a bit zonked because, on top of flying over Utah and Iowa after his fruitless campaigning, he had been giving interviews since nine in the morning, and the caliber of the questions from most entertainment journalists make any article in Entertainment Weekly seem like a dissertation on Hegel.
While Twickenham was exultant, Cardiff was desolate after Wales completed a miserably fruitless autumn campaign by going down, 14-12, to Australia.
Inevitably, the conversation returned more than once to the question of why he would put himself through the ordeal of so fruitless a campaign.
