All the services are new to trying to ride Pokémon's tailwind, so it's too soon to say their efforts will be fruitless.
He said there had been "more than 300 violations" of the truce since last weekend, when it was supposed to begin, and warned that the EU is "reaching a point when further diplomatic efforts will be fruitless unless credibly backed up by further action".
I'm happy to discuss these issues at the White House, but such discussions will be fruitless until the president recognizes economic and legislative reality".
In the conservative book of the moment, "The Bell Curve," Charles Murray and the late Richard J. Hernstein claim that blacks, on average, have lower intellectual capabilities, and that, therefore, government programs to ameliorate inequality will be fruitless.
The Treasury Department has said that the government's ability to borrow money and pay its debts will expire on Aug. 2. House Speaker John A. Boehner said in a statement soon after Mr. Obama's remarks that discussions at the White House will be "fruitless" unless the president abandons calls for any tax increases.
Some leaders of MSU's evolutionary biology community are urging their colleagues to simply ignore the event, predicting that any engagement and debate will be fruitless.
Parents giving great importance to integration consider scholastic achievements as a means for their children to integrate into the host country; alternatively, they may think that adaptation to school in the host country will be fruitless in order to achieve socio-economic upward mobility.
The intuition behind subtree skipping is that if a subtree has not changed during recent rounds of NNIs, then further attempts to optimize the subtree will be fruitless.
Further, if these late responders differ in important ways from passive refusers, then the added effort in recruiting them will be fruitless, because the impact on mitigating bias will be minimal.
The absence of fine-scale genetic structure at a localized scale implies a level of genetic uniformity (that is, each stand will exhibit a high degree of genetic variation), suggesting that any attempts to tailor forest management practices to a specific genetic component will be fruitless.
