Sentence examples for fruitless war from inspiring English sources

We're smarter about junk now than we were during the fruitless War on Drugs.

The Hurriyat, though divided over issues such as whether merger with Pakistan is preferable to independence, is eager for a political solution after years of fruitless war.

Such was the dyspeptic mood of a nation deep into a fruitless war and a year after a summer of assassinations and riots.

Either we are at war against Colonel Qaddafi or we are playing dangerous and expensive and probably fruitless war games in the desert.

As one expert noted in an interview today, the Russian Army already is conducting one fruitless war against Islamic extremists in Chechnya.

Were they irresponsible and disorderly to have spoken out about a fruitless war in which 58,000 Americans lost their lives?

In recent days, indeed, as Western leaders wrestled with claims of chemical weapons use on the outskirts of Damascus on Aug. 21, the balance between politics at home and the ability to project military power abroad seems to have shifted into a new and more circumspect era, as voters tire of fruitless wars overseas and of their leaders' rationales for fighting them.

Are they stand-ins for a generation of walking wounded, returning from fruitless wars?

It was, all agreed, the exhausted speech of an exhausted administration addressed to an American public exhausted by more than a decade of fruitless wars in an exhausting world.

Egypt, Saudi and the UAE are engaged in a fruitless, counterproductive war of their own against the Muslim Brotherhood and its backers.

The answer, according to "The Two-Income Trap," by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi, is that many second paychecks today go toward financing a largely fruitless bidding war for homes in good school districts.