Sentence examples for fruitless work from inspiring English sources

I refer to the three-decade, multimillion-pound struggle to build (or rather, not build) a visitor centre at Stonehenge, which has seen several proposals come and go, architects hired and released, public inquiries held, politicians vacillate, and consultants paid for fruitless work.

In "Battle Hymn" she writes of a time when her daughter Louisa tried to walk away from her piano practice after a week of "nonstop" — and fruitless — work on a piece.

Unfortunately, this effort may be fruitless when working on a vague problem as students may focus on irrelevant and unintended learning issues.

For some, the frustration of a fruitless search for work is reaching near despair.

Sitting in the unemployment proect's office on the Avenue of the Americas last week, thse jobless workers described the frustrations of their fruitless hunts for work.

It is fruitless to put work and life on a scale and declare them in or out of balance.

He sets off with his suitcase in fruitless search of work; when he returns, he finds his fiancée has been evicted, and is too embarrassed with his own situation to approach her.

His search for unpaid work was fruitless.

He warns that the search for explicit social or political content in his work is fruitless.

Workers in those counties saw days of marathon work prove fruitless.

After being released, he spent several fruitless months searching for work and then turned to 70 Times 7 for guidance and training.