Sentence examples for fruitless tactic from inspiring English sources
The police were discussing the case and handing out fliers in the neighborhood, repeating a hopeful but until then mostly fruitless tactic to generate leads in the case.
Its tactic proved fruitless, since slashing prices ultimately dents revenues.
Set four was wrapped up in style as Stepanek wilted, his tactic of charging to the net proving fruitless as a ruthless Djokovic ended his tournament with a curving backhand.
After nearly five months of fruitless wrangling with the Justice Department, Congress and the courts, it is Mr. Sanchez's street tactics, and not the work of the mainstream Cuban-American leaders, that has forced the federal government to back down repeatedly from reuniting Elian with his father, experts say.
By "permissive policing" Mr. Bloomberg is evidently referring to whatever would replace the Police Department's unconstitutional "stop-and-frisk" tactics used on mostly young black and Latino men in a largely fruitless hunt for guns and drugs.
In changing tactics, Republicans hope to tamp down the continuing public criticism of their previously fruitless attack on the Affordable Care Act, one that led to a 16-day government shutdown, by focusing on the problems with the law that they say they have warned the nation about, unheeded, for three years.
Conferences with Floridablanca fruitless.
These efforts proved fruitless.
