Sentence examples for rather fruitless from inspiring English sources

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I feel we've wasted a lot of time with some rather fruitless and rather fruit-cakey policy spasms that don't make any difference to the education system, which I would have liked to get my hands on more fully.

In particular, the contents of the paper bring to an end a recent scholastic and rather fruitless debate as to how the drag and buoyancy constituents have to be singled out from the total force acting on a particle of a uniform fluidized bed at steady conditions.

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And make a joint effort with the Europeans to offer massive, irresistible packages to the people of Iran, Uzbekistan and Venezuela — incentives for eventual regime change rather than fruitless sanctions.

Their sexual orientation is deranged and they will court each other rather than females (hence "fruitless").

Test preparation would focus on the content of the tests, rather than continue the fruitless attempt to teach test taking.

What if someone in the White House had decided in 1979 to side with the Soviets against the Islamists, recognising that the two cold war warriors' real interests lay in defeating a medieval enemy, rather than continue a fruitless squabble?

Alas, the Palestine papers also reveal the lack of political will to conclude the deal, shown by the wide gaps over substantive positions, and both sides' leaning towards fruitless debating, rather than seeking a compromise.

Their story carries a familiar, comforting moral -- find happiness in the people you love and the place where you are, rather than in a fruitless search for far-away fame.

The numbers, once a rolling tally of assists, goals and trophies, had become rather more sinister: 30 fruitless games, 273 days and 2,357 minutes stuck on his Chelsea tally of 49.

Rather, we all expected a fruitless day of lizardless searching, in recognition of the fact that none of us expected to find any.

They will then be able to respond precisely, rather than slogging around on fruitless and demoralising patrols on the off-chance of catching a poacher up to no good.TrailGuard is the brainchild of Steve Gulick, an electrical engineer turned biologist who recently left the State University of New York (SUNY) to set up a not-for-profit organisation called Wildland Security, to promote his idea.

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