Sentence examples for fruitless talks from inspiring English sources

The Yankees have had fruitless talks with the Baltimore Orioles about B. J. Surhoff so far.

Public patience is wearing thin after six months of fruitless talks and manoeuvring.

Over five months of fruitless talks, phrases like "last-ditch" and "crunch time" have been used again and again.

The meeting will be the latest in several rounds of largely fruitless talks under the auspices of a regional group.

The stepped-up pressure comes after months of apparently fruitless talks about whether Mr. Zelaya will be returned to power.

Tenzin Atisha, an official in the exiled government, who has sat opposite Mr Zhu in occasional fruitless talks (the most recent of them two years ago), remains optimistic.

Gone were the familiar but ultimately fruitless talking points from earlier negotiations, the players' cry for full team financial disclosures.

The leaders of both Iran and Syria have projects they would like more time to complete – time that could be created by ultimately fruitless talk.

It seems that on one occasion when you were secretly taken to Palestine to attempt to begin negotiations for peace with Israel, you asked, after a long day of fruitless talk, to be taken back to the airport as you couldn't see any way out of that impasse.

The neighbours have held 15 rounds of fruitless border talks since the 1990s.

Last year Dresdner endured fruitless merger talks with each of the other two before being bought by Allianz, a Munich insurer.