Sentence examples for futile talks from inspiring English sources

After years of futile talks, accusations, recriminations and sanctions, the international community and Iran seem to be coming towards a deal over the country's contentious nuclear programme.

Throughout history, numerous nations have engaged in protracted and futile talks in hopes of resolving epic-old conflicts, including over disputed territories.

But then, this is Colombia.Three months ago, just as the president, Andres Pastrana, called off three years of futile talks with the FARC guerrillas, Ms Betancourt, an outspoken and sometimes derided senator, was snatched by the rebels.

Mr Uribe was elected on a promise to get tough with the FARC in the wake of three years of futile peace talks with the guerrillas.

No doubt his vanity would relish such a triumph, but the futile peace talks to date have required almost infinite amounts of patience and persistence.

The modest actor told Hello Magazinee that although winning an Oscar would be "amazing," it is "so premature that it would almost be futile to talk about it".

So futile have the talks become that the unions have shifted tack.

He says Pakistan-controlled Kashmir does not want to become a "nursery for mushrooming jihadis".But Sardar Ejaz Afzal Khan, a leader of Jamaat-I-Islami, an Islamist party, supports the armed struggle, calling talks futile.

However, with Iran - the world's champion of negotiations leading to nowhere, we will not know until the October 15-16 meetings end, and beyond, if Iran is serious or will continue to engage in an endless futile marathon of talks.

It is futile to keep talking of "including the poor" within the ambit of capitalist opportunity: any good capitalist like our chancellor, George Osborne, understands very well that inequality and impoverishment (codename "austerity") is absolutely central to the creation and concentration of wealth.

During this time, one can recite verses from the Quran, say prayers and invocations, and should avoid any kind of futile or idle talk.