Sentence examples for fruitless cost from inspiring English sources

"The Islamic Emirate took into consideration the military situation and the fruitless cost of corporeal and material losses... and therefore ordered its mujahideen to withdraw from the main square markets and government buildings to the outlying rural areas of the city in order to reinforce their defence lines," the Taliban said in the statement announcing their retreat.

If the big funds in effect own the market in aggregate, then frenetic trading activity is fruitless, even before costs.

Aside from the $574 billion in tax dollars, this is a continuously fruitless effort that's cost 2,136 Americans their lives.

Portugal's cost of borrowing soared after fruitless budget talks last week between Mr. Sócrates and Pedro Passos Coelho, the leader of the Social Democrats, with the yield spread between Portuguese and German government bonds setting records.

(ii) For medically unexplained symptoms, which cost the NHS billions in fruitless referrals, we have no specific cost estimates.

The main reason was the immense material and human cost of the protracted and fruitless attempts to conquer the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo.

Before the next American war and the next American massacre -- you can surely count on both -- join Chernus in considering the startling costs of America's seemingly endless (and fruitless) battle with evil.

The first four of these (June 23 July 7 July 18 August 3 October 18 November 4 4; and November 10 December 2) achieved nothing worth the cost of 280,000 men; and the fifth (March 1916) was equally fruitless.

Attempts to collect damages for libel and costs from people outside Britain are rare and often fruitless.

You could try searching through an internet search engine, but this could prove fruitless as you may end up searching endless sites for searches that will cost a small fortune, or are just plain useless!

The UK government, already spending most of its energy budget on nuclear clean up, has crashed through deadline after deadline in a fruitless search to find anybody willing to build new nuclear power stations at reasonable cost.