Sentence examples for still fruitless from inspiring English sources

Tentative and still fruitless efforts to lure the Taliban into a peace process were dealt a severe setback when a man claiming to be a peace envoy killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan's High Peace Council and a former president, using a bomb hidden in his turban.

Much effort has been made to clarify the certain PL centers but is still fruitless.

Attempts by the UN's envoy, Lakhdar Brahimi, to bring the Americans and Russia, the regime's main ally, to an agreement whereby Mr Assad would step down, perhaps by March, while the rebel coalition leads a transition, still look fruitless.

The trip, however, proved fruitless.

Although efforts were made to keep female soldiers confined to military bases, their presence still managed to inspire (fruitless) protests by some Saudi women against their country's ban on female drivers.

Still, after years of fruitless efforts by previous governments to spend their way out of stagnation, Mr. Koizumi is relying on Mr. Takenaka's ability to win over the public on higher unemployment, higher costs for public services and further austerity so he might achieve his goals.

Others say the lobbying efforts were fruitless, while still others say it's hard to tell, or simply beside the point.

It's a mystery why experienced white-collar workers still fall for these often fruitless services.

Those efforts were ultimately fruitless, however.

"Without flowers, the reptiles, which had gotten along fine in a leafy, fruitless world, would probably still rule," Pollan writes.

However, police inquiries were fruitless.