Sentence examples for would prove fruitless from inspiring English sources

Officials have cautioned, however, that restoring electricity to the reactor would prove fruitless if the pumps were not working.

Mr. Fukui said inflation targets are "one important tool" for a central bank to consider, but adopting one in Japan now would prove fruitless.

New York is a city of deal makers, so this whole routine would prove fruitless unless there was something in it for the news media.

Efforts to get the Army out of the building would prove fruitless for several months until Sen. Solomon Foot, chair of the Senate committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, in December introduced a resolution demanding that the army's Commissary General explain why the ovens were still in the basement.

Yet whether arguing on behalf of his beliefs would prove fruitless, as Mr. Adams claims, or would serve to make them more resonant and persuasive, as I suspect, it is difficult to imagine them being expressed any more eloquently, or with more passion, than they are here.

What he doesn't say is that if RealNames is well entrenched, such efforts would prove fruitless.

The House of Justice feels it would be ill-advised to engage in discussions intended to convince those who do not accept the station of Bahá'u'lláh that their views are erroneous; such an effort would ultimately prove fruitless.

But the official, Ricardo Alarcón, insisted that any toughening of Bush administration policy on Cuba would prove as fruitless as past efforts.

Backstreet exploring that would have proved fruitless four or five years ago now leads to exciting new discoveries.

One senior Armed Services Committee member asked why Democrats would want to put their fingerprints on a war policy that is likely to prove fruitless long before legislation could have any impact.

Appel says those efforts will prove fruitless.