Sentence examples for fruitless decision from inspiring English sources

– and it's hard to read his ultimately fruitless decision as anything other than fuel for the same system that made him.

Telefónica's decision followed a fruitless two-day meeting of the board of Portugal Telecom, which had encouraged its Spanish partner to sweeten the terms of its offer.

There was an obvious explanation: a year earlier, the department had denied Bishop's bid for tenure, and her protracted and increasingly desperate efforts to appeal the decision had been fruitless.

It is a fruitless delusion.

When diplomacy proved fruitless, Eban supported the military decisions in the Six-Day War in June.

Although Maliki might protest against such a decision, his efforts are more likely to be fruitless without enjoying the Iranian leadership on his side.

That decision set into motion a series of expensive and fruitless courtships involving developers like Lawrence F. Levy, who brought the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to its current home; Neil Bluhm and Judd Malkin, co-founders of JMB Realty; and Sam Zell, the chairman of Equity Office Properties Trust.

Lawyers say most people who use surrogates arrive at the decision the same way as the New Jersey couple — after several fruitless, agonizing rounds of infertility treatments.

After months of relatively fruitless international inspections, the discovery of such arms, officials said, would vindicate the administration's decision to go to war to disarm Iraq.

Europe's decision to propose the softer resolution came after a week of intense and ultimately fruitless diplomacy at the agency's Vienna headquarters.

A major advance in elucidating the neural circuits that govern male mating decisions has come from the discovery that a male-specific splice form of the Fruitless trancriptional regulator (FruM) is expressed in peripheral and central neurons that drive courtship behavior (Manoli et al., 2005; Stockinger et al., 2005), arguing that FruM marks neural circuits for courtship.