Sentence examples for may be fruitless from inspiring English sources

The first, second or third tries may be fruitless, but usually on the fourth attempt the snail-eater will win.

Rabbi Neulander's lawyers are claiming a similar case for him, so until the Cruz case is decided, it may be fruitless to go ahead with the Neulander case.

"I agree with Leon at least part of the way that the quest for immortality may be fruitless and unwise," said Dr. Thomas H. Murray, president of the Hastings Center for Bioethics in Garrison, N.Y., "but I disagree that it is at the heart of modern medicine".

The development of the subprime market was enthusiastically backed by Democratic politicians in America, who believed that the poor (particularly ethnic minorities) were being denied the chance to buy their own homes.The lesson of the credit crunch is that pinning the blame on any one participant may be fruitless.

Politics is so rife in inner cities to an extent that planning effort may be fruitless is the notion of politics is not embraced in planning.

Continued interventions targeting physicians and executives, in the absence of a receptive organizational infrastructure, may be fruitless.

Finally, in order that our efforts may not be fruitless, it is important that we dedicate ourselves to transmitting to new generations the heritage of our mutual knowledge, esteem and friendship which has, thanks to the commitment of associations like yours, grown over these years.

Uncertainty about the future of telehealth also affected the views of some participants, who expressed disappointment that their efforts to improve telehealth may, ultimately, be fruitless.

Searching for clues may prove to be fruitless, as the factory has now been described as "no longer in existence" due to the severity of the explosion.

Mr Obama's hunt for a fix for the housing market may be a fruitless one.

This may be as fruitless a pursuit as demanding that every play be Shakespeare or that every novel be Tolstoy, but it's where we are.