Quarantined populations have been established but efforts to find a cure have been depressingly fruitless.
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.
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.
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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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.
"In times of crisis, barter offers a means to avoid the often fruitless search for bank loans and other forms of financing, " he says.
Milne also believes it would prove fruitless to pour his own personal wealth into the club, adding that it must sustain itself.
After conversations proved to be fruitless in terms of money, Pettitte decided to embark upon a career as a junior college pitcher.
Which is to say: he sounds like a serious challenger to centrist ideas, but in the end his struggles may prove fruitless.
Besides, he learned the hard way more than a decade ago that intervention in the foreign-exchange markets is generally a fruitless exercise.
Efforts to ward off the slide would be a joke and fruitless.
Typically, the offline fundraising process can be long, frustrating, and oftentimes fruitless.
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