And this crusade against gluten might not just be fruitless (and expensive – according to Levinovitz, gluten-free products average at 242percentt more expensive than their gluten-containing versions), but actually harmful.
"Things only go wrong," Wessely wrote in 1995, "when the nature of an outbreak is not recognized, and a fruitless and expensive search for toxins, fumes and gases begins.
Bill Gates made a similar argument to the governors, portraying the movement to reduce class sizes as one of the most expensive and fruitless efforts in American education.
On a second expensive and fruitless trip to Beijing, she and her fellow villagers were followed by Yunfu police and escorted back home.
On Monday, Royal Dutch Shell ended its expensive and fruitless nine-year effort to explore for oil in the Alaskan Arctic — a $7 billion investment — in another sign that the entire industry is trimming its ambitions in the wake of collapsing oil prices.
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.
Others opted for more dialogue on issues in place of the initiative, which some said will be an expensive yet fruitless endeavor.
She says she consulted a lawyer, who said a lawsuit would be expensive and, potentially, fruitless.
An article describing chiropractors as "bogus" prompted a lengthy, expensive (and ultimately fruitless) suit from their trade body.
Either we are at war against Colonel Qaddafi or we are playing dangerous and expensive and probably fruitless war games in the desert.
(They can also prompt expensive though largely fruitless visits from exterminators, and motivate upgrades that might otherwise wait; Inkley, after his stinkbug invasion, spent ten thousand dollars on new windows).
