It was particularly fruitless because there were no standards around how information was represented in pages.
McCain said today he was driven to put the campaign on hold by the thus-far fruitless congressional debate on President Bush's proposed rescue plan.
The wise person knows it is fruitless to project hopes and fears on the future. This only leads to forming melodramatic representations in your mind and wasting time.
The search proved fruitless.
The room was so still I could hear mockingbirds quarreling in the fruitless mulberry trees.
As the map went no further north than Hungary, I decided to save him a fruitless search.
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.
This fruitless quest was called alchemy by the Arabs.
The lesson of the credit crunch is that pinning the blame on any one participant may be fruitless.
The banking sector was weak and fragmented and Nigeria's government was bogged down in fruitless negotiations over the billions of dollars of debt racked up during years of corrupt military rule.
Since then the states have veered between negotiations and lawsuits; both have proved fruitless.
Widening each trench proved fruitless, so on the sixth day of digging, they moved to a new site, between two marked graves.
I tried twice to get the UK visa and she even sponsored me but it was fruitless.
But recruiting efforts have been fruitless.
Thousands of infertile couples could be spared the pain, anguish and expense of fruitless IVF treatments, thanks to the discovery of a lock-and-key mechanism between sperm and egg cells.
After months of fruitless searching, his mother turned to Kroll.
PopSci looks at eight technologies that will make future automotive adventures free of traffic jams, fender benders and fruitless hunts for parking Spaces.
A few weeks ago, I wrote about my fruitless attempt to exchange a pair of Nike running shoes with a torn shoelace eyelet.
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