Quarantined populations have been established but efforts to find a cure have been depressingly fruitless.
Haim Ramon said any talks with Abbas would be fruitless unless he exerts control over militants.
Most notable was a fruitless effort early in his tenure to impose managed trade on Japan.
Despite the historic nature of the race, her addition to Walter Mondale's ticket proved fruitless.
On the evidence of the last five weeks, it would have been a fruitless search.
Several searches were also conducted early on in the investigation but those proved fruitless, Dolson said.
After a fruitless search of 400 homes, officers suspended their search Friday amid heavy snowfall.
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If that becomes fruitless then I may have to look at retraining as well.
Most job-seekers think that it's fruitless to call a hiring manager on Dec. 22.
Efforts by foreign countries to coax the rivals to return to peace talks have been fruitless.
Likewise, arguing that the messaging is correct is both fruitless and a political blunder.
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Government or rather public finance has the capacity to distinguish a fruitful policy from a fruitless policy.
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But repeated attempts to get Apple to offer the software at its app store have been fruitless.
It's dangerous, and almost certainly fruitless, to dwell on one month's trade statistics - or even three.
Hassan traveled from one Sadr office to another in a fruitless search for someone who would help him.
Peers have already fought one massive, if ultimately, fairly fruitless, battle over the Parliamentary Voting and Constituencies Act.
The dig was fruitless, but elsewhere in the mosque complex they found a gun, a grenade and ammunition.
Unfortunately, Washington is locked in what appears to be an endless cycle of fruitless exchanges with the North.
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This mania is what Marvel followers have hungered for, and it would be fruitless to deny their delight.
But without them, Mr Singh's round table seems doomed to be yet another fruitless effort to square the circle.
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Instead of this fruitless debate about having it all, men and women should focus on what make us happy.
It was a long and fruitless day at the plate for the Yankees.
As far as novelty news goes, Apple tea leaf reading and rumor speculation seems fairly fruitless (no pun intended).
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However, the battle may prove to be fruitless as both firms have the patent power to diffuse a negative verdict.
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They also show how difficult and how fruitless it is to try to define a volatile nation by a single conceptual mould.
Instead, the U.S. subsidizes wealthy allies throughout Asia and Europe and engages in fruitless nation-building in failed states, such as Afghanistan.
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After long years of fruitless preoccupation with Israeli-Palestinian peace, the president erupted with his pent-up frustration straight to the Israeli public...
The process is laborious and often fruitless, but it has helped to create e-commerce and transform firms as big as Microsoft.
Winks and e-mails being sent to the account of the lovely ladies who caught his eye were doomed to be fruitless.
If talks prove fruitless, Spurs could yet make a complaint to the Premier League or take action through the civil courts.
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