1. Our efforts to persuade her proved fruitless.

2. It was a fruitless search.

3. Talks have so far have been fruitless.

4. Their search for the plane is fruitless.

5. Dunbar's departure rendered the whole operation quite fruitless.

6. So far,() their search has been fruitless.

7. Our efforts to persuade her were fruitless she didn't even listen.

8. The search proved fruitless.

9. I spent the next three hours in a fruitless search for a replacement.

10. I spent a fruitless ten minutes walking up and down the high street, desperately avoiding eye contact with passers-by.

11. After a fruitless morning sitting at his desk he had given up.

12. After ten hours of fruitless negotiations, he stormed out of the meeting in exasperation.

13. After repeated but fruitless demands for payment, he brought a suit against the debtor.

14. If talking proves fruitless, talk to your mum.

15. Oldham's attack had a fruitless afternoon against a Rovers' rearguard in which Kevin Moran was outstanding.

16. And I think it's fruitless going on about blame and suspicion and guilt.

17. When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless, the building began to be demolished around their heads.

18. A fruitless correspondence between Paton and Henderson was carried on throughout July 1931.

19. After weeks of fruitless argument they finally agreed to go their separate ways.

20. So far the search for the missing middle - aged woman has been fruitless.

21. Attempts to reach a mutually agreed solution had been fruitless.

22. All diplomatic attempts at a peaceful solution to the crisis have been fruitless.

23. But all attempts to isolate and identify viruses from infected tissue proved fruitless.

24. And why has the determined search for alternatives proved so fruitless?

25. I recognise that practitioners will in some cases incur fruitless costs in the search for such a vital clue where none exists.

26. This week, be ready for irritating news and yet another fruitless attempt at communication.

27. When a recipe calls for tamarind or jalapeno chillies, save fruitless searching in local shops by calling Deliline.

28. But it seemed polite to visit the Freitas family, especially after Lina had come to Monte Samana on a fruitless errand.

29. The demonstrators denounced the economic summit as a futile and fruitless exercise.

30. Satan, who finds work for idle hands to do, also fills idle minds with fruitless speculation.

1. It was a fruitless search.

2. Their search for the plane is fruitless.

3. After repeated but fruitless demands for payment, he brought a suit against the debtor.

31. The result is a crippling and ever-growing burden of fruitless debt.

32. These discussions proved fruitless, with each side blaming the other for the failure to resolve the growing crisis.

33. Our 1977 conference in Edinburgh had been as fruitless, in terms of its actual agenda, as its precursor at Dilizhan.

34. Edward's attempts to manipulate seemed both touching and, eventually, fruitless.

35. Their attempt to settle the dispute by peaceful negotiations proved fruitless.

36. Yet all the signs were that this was going to be a fruitless exercise.

37. Demonstrators condemned the summit as a futile and fruitless exercise.

38. Long have I combed the vilest quarters of this town on fruitless search for thee.

39. Mr Segni says he resorted to referendums after more than ten years of fruitless debate within the party on institutional reform.

40. He's suffering from dehydration because of his fruitless search for water.

41. Galileo was able to outmanoeuvre his rival in the fruitless game of the invention of adhoc devices for the protection of theories.

42. I spent the next three hours in a fruitless search of her room.

43. East forced two short corners which proved fruitless and likewise Antrim had a similar fate.

44. Rescue efforts have been called off after three days of fruitless searching.

45. Initial discussions were fruitless, but on April 24 a majority of the mujaheddin groups agreed to a three-stage plan.

46. Program evaluation is commonly thought of as a dry, fruitless endeavor, extolled in theory but ignored in practice.

47. An aerial search of the area proved fruitless, and they were presumed dead.

48. There will always be formal procedures which are fruitless.

49. Tins took some temerity, but it was fruitless.

50. This fruitless quest was called alchemy by the Arabs.

51. It was a fruitless, harassing round.

52. I traipsed home disconsolately after my fruitless, final search.

53. The next two days were spent in fruitless parleys.

54. His efforts to woo her to his side proved fruitless.

55. It is fruitless effort for Chinese soccer association to limit the salary of professional soccer player. The best way to regulate the economic rent is to tax heavily.

56. To head off anglo-french military action, Eisenhower and his secretary of state ensnared the Europeans in a fruitless round of talks and conferences.

57. The way to get from what the mathematicians call a local maximum to the global maximum is to explore a lot of fruitless minima along the way.

58. Another half an hour passed, and the pursuit was still fruitless.

59. The religious of Port-Royal were especially conspicuous for their obstinacy, and the Archbishop of Paris, after several fruitless admonitions, was forced to debar them from receiving the sacraments.

60. Still, after years of fruitless diplomatic engagement with the Islamic Republic over its nuclear ambitions, targeted financial sanctions and divestment offer a road not yet traveled.

61. But last August, after a fruitless, four-year search for a university teaching job, she began a different course of study, at the United Tractor Trailer School in central Massachusetts.

62. After a lethal plant virus swept through this field trial in Tha Pra, Thailand, the GM papaya trees on the right stood hearty, while the conventional trees on the left fell sickly and fruitless.

63. The latest standoff follows two days of fruitless meetings of European finance ministers in Wroclaw, Poland, that concluded on Saturday.

64. With the masculine fruitless gene, females instinctiely lunge to the exclusion of their usual maneuvers.

65. In 1929, Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt finally killed a giant panda after six decades of elusion and fruitless searching.

66. In any event, the debate over which test is stricter is somewhat fruitless.

67. Trying to reverse the dictate given or negotiate better terms seems fruitless.

68. The finger appeasing even is raised how the energy, is only the fruitless labour hand signal.

69. So far the search for the missing boy has been fruitless.

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70. As John Bunyan said, "If my life is fruitless, it doesn't matter who praises me, and if my life is fruitful, it doesn't matter who criticizes me."

71. You might want to join a link exchange, but trading links often proves fruitless.