Sentence examples for fruitless protest from inspiring English sources

The years of fruitless protest and economic hardship have taken a toll.

Torch in hand, she moves methodically up and down the stairway towards Zozobra, taunting the distressed marionette whose arms flail in fruitless protest, his puppet lips miming in syncopation to the detached moans projected over the loudspeaker.

Tibullus ultimately discovered that Delia was receiving other lovers as well as himself; then, after fruitless protests, he ceased to pursue her.

Although efforts were made to keep female soldiers confined to military bases, their presence still managed to inspire (fruitless) protests by some Saudi women against their country's ban on female drivers.

After years of fruitless peaceful protest, SWAPO began a military campaign against the government in 1966.

Laidlaw kept prompting Edinburgh forward and there were fruitless boos of protest from the scarcely populated stands when Kevin McLaughlin eased Nick de Luca away from a cute chip from the scrum-half before the back row gathered.

Since, in the nothing we do — the "nothing that is not there and the nothing that is" (Wallace Stevens) — we do not live in the real world, or wish to, it is fruitless and dishonest to protest that we do.

That was a grave political blunder, because it led some conservatives to suspect that he did not intend to dedicate the Senate's time to a fruitless symbolic pageant of protest.

Even Saddam Hussein (with the exception of a fruitless embargo last April to protest Israel's Palestine policy) has kept pumping as much oil as he can, or, rather, as much as the U.N. will allow.

Protesting is not fruitless.

King's 1966 marches on all-white neighborhoods in Chicago to protest discriminatory housing proved fruitless.