Screenshot: YelpThe entire endeavor is as fruitless as you'd expect.
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But even if they don't, it won't be entirely fruitless.
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We cannot help but wonder, even when wondering is fruitless.
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It is fruitless to point a finger at one cause.
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It is fruitless to blame people for this irritating inconsistency.
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All the decentralized election systems make hacking a fruitless endeavor.
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A meeting on February 22nd with Mr Tsipras proved fruitless.
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Mediation efforts, including by the United States, have been fruitless.
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Back in the clubhouse, players talked about their fruitless efforts.
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His search for the next job was exhausting and fruitless.
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The idea of forestalling such efforts is valiant but fruitless.
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But their visit here might not have been completely fruitless.
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A push to break into TV directing was fruitless, though.
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Visits to a local doctor and ophthalmologist also proved fruitless.
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In one second, all of that work was rendered fruitless.
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That was not unexpected given how fruitless these discussions have been.
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At the other end of the pitch, Germany's attackers proved fruitless.
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It's only after these fruitless meetings that the next plague comes.
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After a fruitless search, she reported it unaccounted for in 1886.
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After a fruitless search around the hotel, she calls the police.
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Ms. Malcolm would say her own efforts had been largely fruitless.
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Efforts to bring in high-profile, experienced hands have been fruitless.
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Jack spends years on a fruitless search for her real killer.
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Choosing so-called candidate genes up front proved to be fruitless.
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The adults laughed while watching what seemed like a fruitless effort.
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No doubt the Melo redemption tour, thus far fruitless, will continue.
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It's fruitless to engage with people who are impervious to facts.
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Initial, furtive inquiries among New Age friends in Berkeley proved fruitless.
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But without China's participation, critics worry the talks will be fruitless.
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Ocasio-Cortez documented their fruitless search on Twitter with the hashtag #WheresMitch.
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The negotiations over funding the border wall have been fruitless so far.
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This is an interesting thought experiment, but isn't it a bit fruitless?
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With his son still missing days later, B.J. began a fruitless search.
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But most spend their days in a fruitless search for pay dirt.
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Google loves throwing money at weird, possibly fruitless experiments — remember Project Ara?
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That research proved to be fruitless and so the answer is no.
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With his son still missing days later, B.J. began a fruitless search.
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Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless search in January last year.
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An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman called the sanctions "fruitless, illogical and inefficient".
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" He nonetheless derided their fruitless efforts as a symptom of the "E.
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"This is a serviceberry," he said, stopping at a small, fruitless tree.
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Leadership analysis might give clues MORE in Hanoi also remained legally fruitless.
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That the military, an institution they revere, is fighting two fruitless wars.
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" After weeks of fruitless bargaining, McConnell said, "it's time to move on.
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But tackling shame head-on is a difficult and often fruitless task.
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The bitter, fruitless campaign to save that building dragged on for years.
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A conversation with an assistant manager about what had transpired proved fruitless.
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It's all fruitless and they flee the scene before the authorities arrive.
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It's equally fruitless to try to stereotype an average American kratom user.
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To suppress scientific discoveries such as evolution, the benefit of vaccines, or global warming apparently based on nothing but intuition will soon prove costly and fruitless -- and in some heretofore-productive agricultural regions, very costly and literally fruitless.
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But not discussing your pain points with the therapy itself is fruitless, too.
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He's exhausted and furious over the endless, fruitless war against Aku's robot minions.
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It wobbled with the end of the fruitless Doha round of trade talks.
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In the same way, the search for a soulmate is fruitless and destructive.
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Since happiness is elusive and fickle, pursuing it can be fruitless and frustrating.
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In some ways, making a film, or making art, seems fruitless to people.
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Calls by attorneys to the CBP to ascertain more information have been fruitless.
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Instead, it likely reflects a mathematical calculation that Borking Kavanaugh would be fruitless.
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But nothing felt right, and he was finding the fruitless search increasingly embarrassing.
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A series of investigations proved to be fruitless or based on false information.
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You're having a hard time focusing on details and making plans feels fruitless.
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There is no lesson, only sadness, and the regurgitation of bitter, fruitless pain.
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The search proved fruitless and the plane took off again afterwards, it said.
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Four more years of fruitless partisan squabbling will do nothing to restore trust.
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It was a night of fruitless opportunities for the Yankees at the plate.
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They are spending time on screens, but it is not a fruitless task.
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She thinks that maybe there's more to life than going through fruitless missions.
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Reviewing the new Apple Watch, just like reviewing the latest iPhones, feels mostly fruitless.
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Mr Boggs's career was blighted by fruitless appeals to try and get them back.
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Surprisingly, searching online for the answers of why these technologies prevail is often fruitless.
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But stating the obvious is a fruitless tactic when faced with someone like this.
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Both men had publicly aired their concerns that impeachment would be divisive and fruitless.
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He also said that any efforts to posthumously cancel the deal would be fruitless.
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My time to exonerate myself of a fruitless claim by a reporter will come.
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More than two decades of browbeating, bribing and cajoling North Korea have been fruitless.
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Turnout, however, could fall amid growing frustration about the intense but fruitless party squabbling.
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He finds the "masquerades and games" to be fruitless, preferring a more direct approach.
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Still, it is often a fruitless exercise to try to predict North Korean developments.
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Still, it all but abandoned structural reform in a fruitless pursuit of political consensus.
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The constant framing of products as magical cure-alls can lead to fruitless investments.
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The studies ultimately proved fruitless, and their failure produced a split in the field.
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Most spend years dieting and regaining, dieting and regaining, in a fruitless, frustrating cycle.
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Candace Cameron Bure, a soft-spoken creationist, was so extreme that debate was fruitless.
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After our fruitless examination, he took a long thread from his small tool kit.
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And Mr. Espinoza recalled Mr. McCain's fruitless efforts to overhaul the country's immigration laws.
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The fruitless search for him exemplifies the challenges that online harassment cases sometimes encounter.
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AFTER MONTHS of fruitless searching, Wells Fargo has filled its top job at last.
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A call to his friend's mother, who had immigrated from China, was equally fruitless.
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Then I spent most of my days in that role conducting fruitless cold calls.
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As a consumer, I'm not jumping through the fruitless hoops suggested in this article.
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Yet in the end, this approach proved as fruitless as enrolling in drama school.
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He said efforts to find out more about what prompted Dr. Lieb's departure proved fruitless.
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But Republican lawmakers dispute arguments suggesting their efforts to undo ObamaCare have been totally fruitless.
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No need to travel to distant archives, or spend fruitless hours turning the wrong pages.
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So far, a return visit to the café proved fruitless, according to a recent update.
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But they were unable to reach agreement, two days after holding a similarly fruitless meeting.
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And yet months of negotiations with Medtronic and regulators to implement a fix proved fruitless.
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PETA (of course) has repeatedly called him out for his behavior, an ultimately fruitless Change.
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I think the court is engaged in an exercise of understandable but fruitless wishful thinking.
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Efforts by previous Administrations to halt North Korea's development of nuclear weapons had proved fruitless.
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Against the Patriots, however, these tactics might be fruitless unless executed with razor-sharp precision.
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The first cupboard she checked was fruitless, so she went back to mouth-to-mouth.
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It's a risky move, and one that experts say might turn out to be fruitless.
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After a long and fruitless search, she sits by a rock in Eleusis and weeps.
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Early in Fernyhough's career, his mentors told him that studying inner speech would be fruitless.
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The fruitless search was suspended in January 2017, after more than $140 million was spent.
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"I've avoided talking about this because telling strangers struck me as a fruitless endeavour," Cobain wrote.
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" As PEOPLE reported in 2005, efforts to prosecute the group's past activities "have been essentially fruitless.
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Their gesture seems fruitless in relation to the massive pollution that has accumulated in the river.
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But bets on his ousting have so far proven just as fruitless as bets on default.
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Mattarella turned to Casellati after holding two rounds of fruitless consultations with the various parties himself.
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Meanwhile, activists with human rights groups said they are frustrated at fruitless efforts to influence Washington.
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Nothing makes sense, and to try and dissect what's happened to Kanye is a fruitless endeavor.
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We need to face the real data, scrap fruitless initiatives, and take an entirely new approach.
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But trying to get the attention of the mother, probably drunk on eucalyptus leaves, proved fruitless.
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Why do we allow ourselves to be dragged into pointless, likely fruitless, micro-arguments on Twitter?
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All efforts to locate him in Turkey, where he had gone for work, had been fruitless.
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Settlers first made their way to the area in 1865 in a fruitless search for gold.
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Still, some executives have been frustrated by what they view as well-intentioned but fruitless talk.
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"I'm not doing anymore immigration negotiations with just Republicans, that's fruitless," Flake told CNN on Saturday.
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The auditions proved fruitless, so she decided to pivot and put her energy toward another project.
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The trio met with the nonpartisan agency's director and deputy director, but their quest was fruitless.
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From there, he went to Reading, and then to Leeds, in a fruitless search for games.
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None of her previous doctors had ever explored mental or emotional factors in their fruitless examinations.
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And on Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown will rise for yet another fruitless effort to get his kite aloft.
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Block recounts his tireless but fruitless efforts trying to persuade Paul to jump aboard the Trump Train.
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Until some pressure is applied to encourage him to look elsewhere, the search will often prove fruitless.
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Police said she was abducted — but their search for her was fruitless, and the case went cold.
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Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$290-million ($265 million) search of a 0003,2000 sq.
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But without political authority, they struggle to do any more than engage in endless (and fruitless) "mythbusting".
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Spectacles will naturally be compared to Google Glass, Alphabet's mostly fruitless foray into wearable face-based computing.
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Yet Trump on Sunday effectively undercut his chief diplomat by declaring negotiations to be all but fruitless.
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Thus far, the search for a consistent stretch of good baseball has mostly been a fruitless one.
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Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200-million ($157 million) search in January last year.
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But waiting, as the current president once put it, for the "fever" to break may be fruitless.
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The question, however, is: How do we move beyond the tired and fruitless script on this topic?
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The expectation at the moment is that this week will be just as fruitless as the last.
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A six-month chase, with the help of foot soldiers, sharpshooters and five elephants, has been fruitless.
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Second, days spent on a fruitless quest to repeal Obamacare are days not spent pursuing tax reform.
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But what happens when using apps is as fruitless as trying to meet people in real life?
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In other words, without secrets life is burden-work and business, furrow, yoke, plow—sterile and fruitless.
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Photo: Yongshan PoliceAfter a search on foot proved fruitless, police used a drone to survey the area.
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Hopes that Mr. Trump would sustain such fruitless measures fly in the face of his own words.
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Censure avoids a messy, expensive and fruitless trial in the Senate, which would further divide the country.
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Voicing the exasperation of many of his colleagues, Mr. Boyle called the Steyer campaign a fruitless exercise.
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After months of fruitless negotiations, the Export-Import Bank of China put the resort into receivership in November.
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Many survived the foreclosure of homes, parents losing jobs, and years of fruitless job hunting after graduating school.
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The amorphous nature of trying to sweep over an immeasurable amount of forgotten-about spending ammunition, is fruitless.
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Is far-future Westworld still up and operating solely so he can continue playing out his fruitless narrative?
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In the session, Khloé does try to mend their "special bond," but even that is a fruitless endeavor.
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Because we all know simply checking your phone can send you on a fruitless, two-hour Instagram scroll.
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Ira is an intensely private man, and my attempts to contact him at the time were largely fruitless.
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A return visit to locate the band soon after proved fruitless — and Penner figured he'd lost it forever.
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But he also conducted a lengthy and fruitless hunt for an actual charitable donation made by Donald Trump.
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All the frustration and wasted energy of a fruitless fling boiled down to 17 words and a contraction.
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For his family, this is the end of a frustrating and ultimately fruitless wait of nearly 5 years.
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But this week, students began to worry that all their work was fruitless with Mr. Trump's election success.
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The Aggies managed only 12 total yards, and 94 of those came on two fruitless fourth-quarter possessions.
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So far, efforts to resolve the diplomatic impasse between Qatar and the Saudi-led bloc have been fruitless.
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Kerry's talks with the Russians, aimed at building a system to jointly identify targets, have been largely fruitless.
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Complaining is fruitless, and there isn't much of a reason to expect more from the infamously safe Academy.
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He uses walkie-talkies to communicate with the coaches, but so far it has been a fruitless exercise.
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And the legal challenges aimed at forcing Trump to separate from his business have so far been fruitless.
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But Detlef Seif, the deputy EU spokesman for Merkel's conservative parliamentary bloc, said such tactics would be fruitless.
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The comment period was extended by the council members in a fruitless attempt to try to accommodate everyone.
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Repeated efforts in Congress to move Election Day to something better — like Saturday — have so far been fruitless.
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Mr. Trump tried to keep this alive with his short-lived, fruitless commission to root out election fraud.
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In addition, the White House has outlined another $200 billion that it is targeting should negotiations prove fruitless.
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Instead of embarking on that fruitless endeavor, I implore you, my fellow citizens, to vote "No" on Prop.
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He sat in his store for many fruitless afternoons, giving high discounts to the few customers who came.
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The fruitless struggle prompted President Trump to suggest an approach he once deemed unacceptable: repeal now, replace later.
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Conaway said such efforts -- and issuing subpoenas to other witnesses as Democrats demanded -- would be a fruitless endeavor.
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Greece has made several fruitless attempts to build the facility since 2010, with its debt crisis scaring investors away.
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"I'm supposed to be at the wedding, Doug," Conason quotes Trump as saying in his fruitless appeal to Band.
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Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$703-million ($270 million) search of an area of 22,2370 sq.
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For some of us that trajectory meant countless fruitless hours writing about the minutiae of watches or bird feeders.
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It wasn't a completely fruitless operation, however, as police seized a vehicle and a motorcycle believed to be stolen.
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Apple tried shoring up the disappointing sales by cutting prices and upgrading the innards, but it ultimately proved fruitless.
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After months of fruitless back-and-forth between the FBI and US attorneys, the federal government dropped the case.
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Our searches for planets around this star have so far proved fruitless, but that doesn't mean it's not there.
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In the end, though, what we got was less security, more fruitless interventions, and a region continually in chaos.
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The condemnation is just one part of the broader, albeit fruitless, criticism of the unstoppable President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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His trip last month to India, with which Canada has been conducting fruitless talks since 2010, was a disappointment.
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Bangladeshi commandoes stormed the building and killed six of the attackers when attempts at negotiations proved fruitless, authorities said.
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He also noted the entire exercise is fruitless, because there's no real way to compare teams of different eras.
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One analyst also said it could further complicate Monte dei Paschi's so far fruitless search for a merger partner.
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But, the damage and destruction of the policy on global markets and economies may make the strategy seem fruitless.
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It has drawn up an industrial strategy, an approach abandoned by Thatcher as a fruitless attempt to pick winners.
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It meant Trials of Death remained undefeated, and Moor was still streaming his (so far fruitless) attempts on Twitch.
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"A multinational search to find an Argentine submarine remains fruitless more than a week after it vanished," CNN reports.
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On the other hand, selecting a running mate chosen to appeal to a particular population group has proved fruitless.
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However, Trump on Sunday effectively undercut his Secretary of State's diplomacy by declaring negotiations to be all but fruitless.
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Despite the call for reform, the drug war continues to destroy the family unit leaving it fruitless and barren.
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The path has been dangerously dark for months, and efforts to engage the Department of Transportation have proved fruitless.
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But they proved fruitless, and the musicians were soon walking a picket line instead of playing Gershwin and Ravel.
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Further efforts to restore contact with Rosetta, the comet orbiter, were fruitless until it woke up in June 2015.
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Meditating for too long on the unsavory specimens of the human race can be a fruitless exercise in misanthropy.
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The plaintiff formally resigned from the FBI in October 2014 after an internal investigation into her allegations proved fruitless.
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Greece has made several fruitless attempts to build the facility since 2010 but its debt crisis scared investors away.
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While such forecasts are fruitless, there are others that are less precisely timed, more nuanced and sometimes worth pondering.
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Greece had made several fruitless attempts to build the facility since 2010 but its debt crisis scared investors away.
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As contract negotiations lumber into their third, fruitless month, the world seems to be coming apart at the seams.
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Meanwhile, Mr. Macron himself has shown signs of trying to create some distance after the fruitless trip to Washington.
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The afternoon session would prove equally fruitless, and Ms. Mugrabi expects the case could take up to four years.
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They didn't see any point in pursuing cooperation with Republicans, a strategy that has proven fruitless for a decade.
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That means if House GOP leadership doesn't change the rule again, it's likely the Senate's Wednesday vote will prove fruitless.
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"Unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless," Trump said.
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Doing my own research online proved to be fruitless — all I found was conflicting advice and unrealistic financial success stories.
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After one fruitless Amazon search and about 15 different keyword combinations on eBay, Zoey found a similar make for $20.
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These negotiations were fruitless, and at times comical, but not for any lack of effort from Mr Trump's inner circle.
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The two parties have spent the subsequent ten months in fruitless talks to get the Assembly back up and running.
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Government officials waged fruitless attempts to free him and others, the most high-profile example being the Iran-Contra affair.
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Brady told USA Today that, "I know exactly where I put it," but his efforts turned out to be fruitless.
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Others say the lobbying efforts were fruitless, while still others say it's hard to tell, or simply beside the point.
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Subsequent attempts by OPEC and non-OPEC producers to agree a deal on production levels have so far proved fruitless.
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The Capitals fruitless offside review was just a fun post-credits scene that whets the appetite for the next installment.
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Members are lining up to demand his resignation after the "humiliation" of the fruitless talks he held with Mr Netanyahu.
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Although other ways of raising HDL cholesterol might eventually prove protective, Nissen said all attempts so far have been fruitless.
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Everything about him so enrages and stuns Democrats that they simply cannot help but vent their fury in fruitless ways.
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During the chase, TV news helicopter video footage showed one fruitless capture attempt after another in the borough of Queens.
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"Prayer that doesn't lead to concrete action toward our brothers is a fruitless and incomplete prayer," he said in 2013.
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Depressed after four months of fruitless protest, they "never saw the link between the regional elections and the bigger game".
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These days, however, such gambits seem a touch weary and fruitless, and the movie is burdened by a larger problem.
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President Moon's approach to détente was a pragmatic one, he claimed, not the fruitless dream that conservatives condemned it as.
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Although this Montreal-based circus production has plenty of foolishness, it's unlikely to strike young audiences as a fruitless enterprise.
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The strike comes after months of fruitless contract negotiations between the teacher's union and the Los Angeles Unified School District.
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Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's incredibly expensive and incredibly fruitless presidential primary campaign has come to an end.
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He sees the work as fruitless in an era when unseen black victims died by the thousands in unsolved murders.
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The exercise seemed fruitless at first, he writes, but ultimately offered "a fleeting, revelatory glimpse" into Gould's approach to Bach.
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Because of the complexity of the process, verbally explaining this technique to my students almost always proves to be fruitless.
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A fruitless day trying on clothes that didn't fit my body would send me into a spiral of self-loathing.
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He met conspirators involved in ultimately fruitless plots to poison Pristina's water supply and ambush a visiting Israeli football team.
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After the teams exchanged a fistful of fruitless drives, the Terrapins and Boilermakers started swapping scores at a rapid rate.
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His efforts to overturn the conviction, contending that there were errors in the jury instructions, have been fruitless so far.
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This is where the story changes and Looking loses its macabre hunger for a fruitless investigation into a horrifying tragedy.
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But nevertheless the President plans to use the conclusion to attack Democrats and his opponents for leading a fruitless probe.
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Following the fruitless WTO meeting, the U.S. tax overhaul could now be another nail in the coffin of free trade.
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He contends that continued resistance to the pipeline project, despite the fact that it has the needed approvals, was not fruitless.
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Meanwhile, Brienne and Podrick are miles away on a fruitless quest for Sansa, unaware that they have lost her trail completely.
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I made the mistake of not eating at lunchtime and then spent a fruitless, hungry afternoon wandering from restaurant to restaurant.
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Houston committed nine penalties in addition to the turnovers, and required a late, fruitless rally offensively to muster 213 total yards.
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Her hunt for a steady job with a middle-class income has proved fruitless so far, despite a strong labor market.
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When the offensive began on 22 May, he recalls a frantic, fruitless search for cover where little was to be had.
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Ms Rice lamented her boss's fruitless efforts to ratify a trade pact with Asia-Pacific nations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
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Instead, it was spawned for the fruitless Keynesian ruse of what amounts to not much more than hole digging and filling.
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The collapse of the Doha round of trade talks in 2015, after 14 fruitless years, put needed reforms on hold indefinitely.
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Seehofer told party colleagues at an executive committee meeting that discussions with Merkel had been fruitless, according to a party source.
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" He produced the clip, he said, as a "knowingly fruitless protest effort to prevent people from giving money to the campaign.
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In fact, Marka was discouraged by many of his colleagues from joining the LIGO project, believing it was a fruitless quest.
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Should the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, more commonly known as SETI, be regarded as even more fringe than this fruitless search?
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It's better for Congress to act sensibly, adopt bipartisan net neutrality legislation and at last bring finality to a fruitless debate.
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For Smith, such human searching is fruitless more often than not, but it is a task that should be pursued regardless.
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The preliminary deal between the Socialists and the smaller party, Unidas Podemos, came after five months of fruitless talks between them.
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Efforts to then fight the flames from the ground, using water from Paris' river Seine, were proving fruitless, the Times reported.
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But since much stress is unavoidable, working out how to harness it may be wiser than fruitless attempts to banish it.
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The movie was briefly shown before Christmas, in New York and Los Angeles, in a fruitless bid for an Oscar nomination.
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The extent of disagreement was reflected in differing accounts of the fruitless attempts to negotiate a deal coming from each side.
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Calls to his widow were not returned, Dr. Ramirez said, and attempts to reach a niece and a nephew were fruitless.
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Those efforts, he added, would likely be fruitless, as the industry is far too idiosyncratic to be able to generalize it.
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Andrew Horner was sick of applying to jobs with fruitless results, so he turned the job application process on its head.
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No matter how hard things became between Homer and Marge, how fruitless it seemed their relationship had become, they never separated.
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Through nothing but sheer obstinance, he could make politics into an endless, frustrating, fruitless shitshow, diminishing both parties in voters' eyes.
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Struggling to raise money, he spent part of his student loans on fruitless fund-raising trips to New York and Washington.
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" Searches for the show were also fruitless on Youku, a video hosting service, which similarly cited "the relevant law and regulation.
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But this debate—this utterly fruitless debate—is where Bonnell's intervention into the politics of the internet sublimates into its ideal.
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Instead of continuing a fruitless search, he and three friends took off backpacking through Asia and India on a small budget.
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You wanted, perhaps, to go hiking in the Himalayas, yet here you are, stranded in Helsinki for a few fruitless hours.
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She smacks her head on one of its many fruitless branches and promptly starts wailing, piercing the idyllic scene around us.
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Yet despite winning three majors within 13 months, Harrington decided to change his swing and he suffered through several fruitless years.
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My intent is not to make a case against the president because many already have, and the results have been fruitless.
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It capped a largely fruitless effort to hold him accountable for rights abuses and corruption during his three decades of rule.
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She had lost her job as a custodian, her unemployment checks had run out, and her job search had proved fruitless.
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As anyone who's ever experienced a romantic breakup, a fruitless job interview or an unfortunate election will testify, sugar can heal.
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Perhaps it's a fruitless exercise, and CBS is chasing an audience that will never be theirs, no matter how hard it tries.
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Thus, I approached this week frantically googling "how to wear leather pants without being too sexy" – a fruitless search, it turns out.
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My agent tried, but convincing coaches to sign the foreigner who couldn't trial and needed an expensive work permit unsurprisingly proved fruitless.
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You begin adding up the hours you've spent on massive nights out, and the slow, lingering, fruitless days that have followed them.
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It was the heavy weight of having taken this long journey filled with grim specifics and seeing how fruitless it all was.
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It's a sad, lonely and fruitless odyssey trying to wear someone else's shoes and the film fails its own objective on purpose.
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After a few fruitless turns, I pulled into the main square and walked into the newspaper office of the Coon Rapids Enterprise.
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All the services are new to trying to ride Pokémon's tailwind, so it's too soon to say their efforts will be fruitless.
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Here's everything you need to know about Baghdadi's rise to power, and how a long, fruitless manhunt finally brought about his demise.
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And trying to get answers will likely be fruitless if they've already decided to cut off all communication in the first place.
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With Mr Mueller's report finished, they no longer have to engage in a fruitless debate over whether Mr Trump is treasonous felon.
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Police said in a statement a manhunt had so far been fruitless for the driver of the van, carrying British license plates.
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But some investors have been calling for more drastic measures, with concerns heightened after six weeks of frantic yet fruitless merger talks.
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After 48 hours of fruitless searching, the Shaws got the call they were hoping for: a good Samaritan had found their dog.
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Going door to door to take guns away from Americans would be a fruitless and incredibly dangerous exercise for the federal government.
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Calling a bottom in General Electric has been among the more painful and fruitless endeavors on Wall Street over the past decade.
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Though these are important issues, they are also all potential justifications for yet more fruitless and expensive efforts to reshape the world.
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Learn how to spot scams and fruitless assignments when searching for online jobs or receiving convenient — if mysterious — opportunities in your inbox.
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"It's such a repressive image," Mr. Cave said, adding that it was the element of fruitless loyalty that bothered him the most.
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After years of fruitless dives and intensive research, New England-based Nomad Exploration Team successfully located the Eagle 256 in June 183.
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Two inconclusive general elections in December and June have plunged politicians into months of fruitless negotiations to try to assemble a government.
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The whole argument about whether or not a bikini picture or a naked selfie is empowering or degrading is a fruitless one.
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Previous American administrations spent years in detailed and ultimately fruitless negotiations, giving the North breathing space to develop its lethal arsenal further.
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After years of fruitless haggling over building in San Jose, they have now targeted 2023 for a new home somewhere in Oakland.
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With the cresting wave of hype surrounding Mykki, label interest followed: meetings were had with XL and Capitol, both proving ultimately fruitless.
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After three decades of fruitless investigations, Mr. DeAngelo, 72, was identified earlier this year through the innovative use of a genetic database.
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Trying to protect the witness's identity because of fear of reprisals from the Russian government may be fruitless, one intelligence expert said.
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The animal's apparent escape attempt was still fruitless, however, as the pane of glass remained intact as a result of its reinforcement.
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Austria's conservative foreign minister, Sebastian Kurz, urged Europeans to recognize at last that it was fruitless to pursue closer ties with Turkey.
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Too often in the past, local politicians motivated either by corruption or reluctance to surrender authority have rendered many excellent programs fruitless.
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Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson flew back to Washington on Thursday after days of apparently fruitless shuttle diplomacy in the region.
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Sergeant Bergdahl left his outpost in Afghanistan without permission in 2009 and was captured by militants, prompting a dangerous but fruitless search.
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For your typical resident of Chicago's Bronzeville District, the hunt for fresh produce in their neighborhood can be frustrating, and ultimately fruitless.
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He has given us fruitless negotiations with North Korea, craven kowtowing to Vladimir Putin and high levels of public division and anxiety.
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I can assure you, thanks to my years of fruitless speculation, that he has no ulterior political goal to worry about spoiling.
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The gold rush to find a VR product that will be as popular as Instagram, Snapchat, or even Dropbox has been fruitless.
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After a decade of fruitless searching for his four brothers, who disappeared starting in 2008, Trujillo is willing to give amnesty a try.
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Debt refinancing talks with international investors had begun successfully in Caracas on Monday, the government said, though creditors said the discussions were fruitless.
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While lamenting a fruitless Google search for Deerhunter demos from the band's late-aughts blog to a friend, he invited me to what.
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But, he added, it would likely be a "fruitless battle" because the FTC's authority to subpoena documents about antitrust issues is well-established.
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Viewed against the gargantuan effort needed to crack the Golden State Killer case, my fruitless week of genealogical research didn't seem so bad.
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Anyone who has spent any time on a dating app knows that, sometimes, trying to find potential dates can be frustrating and fruitless.
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Attempts to get the police to investigate her death were fruitless for 20 years, until it was finally reopened as an unsolved case.
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It's an exhausting process, and often it feels fruitless: At the end of the day, usually an ironic swastika is just a swastika.
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When in 1979 yet another lead proved fruitless, they committed suicide, leaving the instruction that the search for news should last until 2000.
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Inside the shacks, some of the men prepare themselves for the frequent — and fruitless — assaults on the heavily guarded and barricaded Channel Tunnel.
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Moreover, Mr Lo adds, when grappling with polarising issues, Ms Tsai has sometimes angered both sides in a fruitless search for middle ground.
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But for people who identify as asexual — or under the asexual umbrella — online dating can be even more exhausting, and often downright fruitless.
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CONGRESS seldom agrees on health care, as is shown by the Republicans' fruitless attempts to rip up the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare.
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The coordinated national push for carbon cap-and-trade legislation, which had united virtually every major environmental group in the country, proved fruitless.
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It will leave the conspiracy-minded GOP base blindsided once again, and give way to some other tangentially related but probably fruitless inquisition.
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The film traces the Connecticut community's "searing" anguish and plays witness to the victims' families mostly fruitless pleas for new federal gun measures.
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Garret Ross did not have the charges dropped against him because the investigation proved fruitless, or because witnesses were found to be untrustworthy.
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The United States is prepared to kill NAFTA if renegotiation efforts prove fruitless, President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday.
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Texas A&M (5-3, 3-2) managed only 20133 total yards, and 94 of those came on two fruitless fourth-quarter possessions.
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"There is nothing more boring and fruitless than a woman lamenting the fact that her stomach is round," writes the prophet Cheryl Strayed.
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Both senators tell aides and friends it is fruitless to live in the past, and that they appreciate the President's willingness to listen.
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The Trump administration's protectionist moves have prompted so far fruitless efforts from some congressional Republicans to limit the president's power to impose tariffs.
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Democrats ultimately passed health care along party lines, but not before prolonged, if fruitless, efforts to woo Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee.
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The meeting, which lasted 90 minutes, proved fruitless, despite an offer to Burgmans of a seat on the board of the merged company.
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As of now, Magid's efforts to unlock the Barragán archives have proved fruitless, but wider exposure of the story may yet change that.
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Gail: Having lived through decades of fruitless arguments about why we should emulate Sweden, I'm just going to shrug and cede the point.
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But the nonchalant reaction from the vast majority of Mr. Trump's party only reinforced to many Democratic activists that impeachment would be fruitless.
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After months of fruitless searching, the Feuers immediately fell for the 3,000-square-foot duplex apartment, which had three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
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Economic migrants do not qualify for asylum; they should understand that, for them, the perilous journey north will ultimately be a fruitless one.
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Michael Bennet of Colorado said impeachment would ultimately be fruitless if the Senate acquitted Trump and he would be able to argue vindication.
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But with Enel reluctant to part with its business and regulatory and funding issues clouding the horizon, talks have so far been fruitless.
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But with Enel reluctant to part with its business and regulatory and funding issues clouding the horizon, talks have so far been fruitless.
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More often, it's impossible and fruitless to try to trace the origins of the feeling when it wakes me up at 4 a.m.
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FDR would spend the next six months not leading the masses toward "the promised land," but trapped in a fruitless battle with Congress.
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You move to the Lower East Side and download OkCupid and set off a near-decade-long journey — of seeking ultimately fruitless partnerships.
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Police searched at the time for two people -- the woman and a man in his 30s with a goatee -- but it proved fruitless.
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Thanksgiving is a day for family, mediocre NFL games, voracious caloric consumption, and quite often, political arguments that quickly devolve into fruitless acrimony.
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Thanksgiving is a day for family, mediocre NFL games, voracious caloric consumption, and quite often — political arguments that quickly devolve into fruitless acrimony.
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Trump's own former homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, has described his fruitless attempts to convince the president that the Crowdstrike theory was bogus.
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While a small army of volunteers has searched the local ravines, trail edges, brush and shady areas, their efforts have so far proved fruitless.
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Turkey's so far fruitless two-year effort to seek cleric Fethullah Gulen's extradition from the United States has deepened strains between the NATO allies.
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The images are more interested in memory and myth-making than the limiting and fruitless desire to show you the Africa you don't see.
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DETROIT — As his illness lingers and fruitless at-bats mount, Yankees second baseman Tyler Wade may have something else to contend with: the calendar.
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It's time-consuming and frequently fruitless to search, and I myself have more than once had to request a copy directly from the researchers.
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Chen has a realization that perhaps he's thrown his life away in a fruitless pursuit, but after a revelation, throws himself back into study.
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It's a fairly fruitless job, but it gives them something that they crave and never had before in their often poverty-stricken hometowns: freedom.
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Others complain about repeated, often fruitless trips to the local ration office to re-register or link their documents, eating into the day's earnings.
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But this bust is just as fruitless as Elizabeth and Phillip's mission (and, while we're at it, Stan and Aderholt's), because he isn't talking.
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The only thing worse than your phone running out of power while traveling is the often fruitless search for a place to plug in.
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It was so late by now that this search proved fruitless—neither of them knew Paris well enough—and became, instead, a directionless walk.
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But those threats were fruitless, and Bryant led off the seventh with his 25th homer, a shot that just cleared the fence in left.
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The men met over bags of evidence last week, a startling display of possible — yet thus far fruitless — clues found on the man's person.
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In September, 1776, Congress sent Benjamin Franklin and John Adams on an ultimately fruitless mission to Staten Island to negotiate peace with the British.
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Or the former steelworker who, after years of fruitless searching, has given up looking but would take a job if he could find one.
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Impeachment skeptics also said proceedings would allow Trump to play the role of the wounded victim, and be fruitless since Republicans control the Senate.
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This paradox is at the heart of the feckless, fruitless debate over tax reform — and nearly all of the pathologies of politics in 2017.
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It was Mr. Houston who, after more than three fruitless hours, stumbled over a mound of dirt covered with sagebrush, mesquite and cholla cactus.
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But with Enel reluctant to part with its business and regulatory and funding issues also clouding the horizon, talks have so far been fruitless.
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Searching for a new home by bus with children in tow had proved fruitless, with prospective landlords telling her that her finances were inadequate.
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The fruitless talks, which had been ongoing for months, focused on issues ranging from pay and benefits to class sizes and teacher preparation time.
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New England opened the third quarter with two fruitless possessions, with Roby registering a third-down sack of Brady to snuff the initial drive.
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For influencers and social media users everywhere, finding the ultimate photo-ready backdrop for an Instagram post can be a strenuous and fruitless task.
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For the past couple of years we have endured a lengthy, one-sided, and largely fruitless debate over "censorship" on our US social networks.
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Group security then made a fruitless attempt to obtain "video footage" of the person who bought postage for the first letter, the report said.
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Without the mandate and accompanying incentives to finally capture health data in digital form, developing personal health record systems would be a fruitless effort.
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He is also in the middle of a fruitless attempt to bully China into a trade deal by imposing an escalating series of tariffs.
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His constituents have obviously wearied of it, including the 500-plus days he spent out of state in his fruitless pursuit of higher office.
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Consider that the Lakers, amid their ultimately fruitless effort to pry Davis away from the Pelicans, lost by 42 points to the Indiana Pacers.
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The document paints a picture of an essentially fruitless negotiating process in recent months that is kept alive largely to buy time for Mrs.
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After centuries of fruitless theories about Planet X, Nibiru, or Vulcan, it's natural to side-eye claims of random planets in our cosmic backyard.
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After a few hours of ultimately fruitless drama, President Donald Trump signed the omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through September 30.
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Having fallen down the pecking order at Arsenal, lacklustre loans to Sunderland and Juventus followed, as did a fruitless transfer to the Bundesliga with Wolfsburg.
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The mayor does not have authority over LAUSD, but he sought to help both sides reach an agreement after nearly two years of fruitless talks.
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The vote will draw a line under two inconclusive elections and fruitless attempts at coalition-building between bickering parties, but it won't guarantee political instability.
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After a fruitless campaign to be allowed to end his life with the help of a doctor, Mr Nicklinson died in 2012 after refusing food.
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Negotiations have been fruitless, and patients who have UnitedHealthcare insurance and who are treated by Envision doctors now likely will face large, unexpected medical bills.
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" The two tried to write a song together for the project, but after a fruitless half hour, "she looked up and me and said, 'Mr.
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After an exhaustive and ultimately fruitless search for the kind of images they were looking for, Ory and Browar decided to take the photographs themselves.
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But that came after a year or so of bafflement, a fruitless attempt to categorize a band that insisted on fighting back against such things.
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This led to a long and fruitless journey to find serialization techniques that do not use reflection and do not have an expensive startup time.
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It was the presidential election (and democracy's dauntless but fruitless hope for faithless electors) repeating itself, except this time, only kids will suffer the consequences.
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He escalated the war in Afghanistan—now the longest official war in American history—and failed to halt the conflict when the escalation proved fruitless.
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Blogs are dead and Bandcamp is plagued by a bunch of generic shit, so digging through either can easily prove to be a fruitless endeavour.
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We have witnessed the harsh realities of fruitless negotiations during the Obama administration, given the now-defunct status of the TPP following years of talks.
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Of course, this content is then typically re-uploaded moments later, leading to a fruitless game of cat-and-mouse between pirates and copyright minders.
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Here, according to Stephen Shaw, author of an airline-marketing textbook, carriers are battling in a never-ending and largely fruitless quest for competitive advantage.
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On Sunday, both parties not only had lost the novelty factor but also disappointed some voters after six months of bruising and fruitless coalition negotiations.
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Negotiations to strike a deal have proved fruitless so far — and the pain is spreading beyond the borders of the world's two biggest economic powers.
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After three more fruitless tries, a countdown timer appeared on the screen, which made him wait a few seconds before he could try another PIN.
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That was the cornerstone of our company and on which we continued to build the company after we realized that the GSR data was fruitless.
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While you can make a password as long and as complicated as possible, your efforts are fruitless if a company doesn't store that information properly.
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It was, especially from the perspective of Anderson's childhood, an era characterized by ideological aggression: campus uprisings and urban riots, assassinations and increasingly fruitless debates.
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Earlier this week parliament's Standing Committee on Public Accounts (SCOPA) supported calls for a full inquiry into the DWS over "irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure".
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In a statement IGAD said the talks ended on Wednesday after "several attempts to narrow the gaps between the positions of the parties" proved fruitless.
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But diplomats involved in previous — and equally fruitless — Middle East negotiations said those hopes were far-fetched, since Hamas would never give up its weapons.
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And every election is different, which makes efforts to graph the lessons of previous elections onto a current one a somewhat futile and fruitless exercise.
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But after a fruitless five-month job search, she took a 20-hour-a-week position as a fragrance assistant at Macy's, making minimum wage.
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Some people accuse the Macri administration of a cowardly pursuit of gradualism, cutting spending too slowly in a fruitless effort to avoid enraging the masses.
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Thus, the breach of the deal by the United States would be fruitless, and the world would continue to be protected against a nuclear Iran.
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Spain is heading for its fourth general election in four years after fruitless coalition talks between centre-left socialists and the left-wing Podemos party.
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Spain is heading for its fourth general election in four years after fruitless coalition talks between centre-left socialists and Podemos, a left-wing party.
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Some Republicans have expressed confidence in Trump's ability to negotiate, however, even as they continue to voice their skepticism that the meeting may be fruitless.
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For many, the fruitless search for jobs within IBM is the last straw, a final break with the values the company still says it embraces.
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Such a commission would be a throwback to the 2000s, when Representative Dan Burton of Indiana held fruitless hearings and conducted investigations on this topic.
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Instead, we ended up on a fruitless walk around Trafalgar Square before finally agreeing to head to the Tube station and go our separate ways.
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Mohammad Saeed, 0003, pointed out that before Munich, there were three rounds of fruitless peace talks in Geneva, the last falling apart before it even began.
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A lower turnout had been widely expected after six months of fruitless talks between political parties following the last election and as the summer holidays start.
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LONDON — A young woman sits cross-legged on her bed, staring into the jaunty-angled camera lens and moaning about her fruitless hunt for a job.
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The Syrian conflict broke out in 2011 with the Arab Spring uprising, but rebel groups' attempts to overthrow President Bashar al-Assad's regime have been fruitless.
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So, no: I won't be having a second baby, but it's not for lack of desire, of effort, or of endless and fruitless bartering with fate.
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So far, though, the effort has been largely fruitless: Clinton has maintained a sizeable superdelegate lead and Sanders has only been able to flip one delegate.
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I would prefer not to have a final eight months of heroic measures that leave me in fruitless pain, but I am in favor of longevity.
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Now mired in scandal—and a negotiation with China that is far more central to his presidency—he might consider Mr Kushner's plan a fruitless distraction.
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After a final 30-minute round of deliberations, the 12-member panel said it could not reach a unanimous verdict and that further efforts were fruitless.
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Sadly, their intervention might be fruitless; political campaigns don't need permission from individual artists or bands if the venues they choose have blanket performing rights licenses.
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Or it could be the fruitless few seconds before a tank manages to compensate for your running speed before blowing up your half of the block.
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Her resignation comes at a delicate time for Rajoy, who has spent almost two months in fruitless negotiations with other parties to form a coalition government.
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The election — the fourth in four years — came after months of fruitless coalition talks between Mr. Sánchez's party and a smaller left-wing party, Unidas Podemos.
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Knowledge of the powerful and dangerous effects of the sun's ultraviolet rays has come a long way in the decades since my fruitless attempts at tanning.
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But past talks have proved fruitless, as both Democrats and Republicans remain dogged by disagreements about funding for enforcement efforts at the border, among other issues.
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Because of this, the scary movies of the 80s still have a prescient message about the horror of our unyielding and fruitless obsession with physical perfection.
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There's a magical energy in your relationships today—however, making too many plans or decisions will be fruitless and may end up leaving you feeling deflated.
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When the media in your daily life only sees you as a joke or a threat, it becomes tiring, even fruitless to remember you have worth.
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Still, despite Bellinger's strikeouts and fruitless at-bats, Manager Dave Roberts saw the smile stay on Bellinger's face, so he remained anchored in the cleanup spot.
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After making fruitless attempts to track down this blind man, Myers and the gallery set out to find a blind artist and paint their tactile portrait.
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While Le Pen had expressed a desire to discuss her anti-immigration, anti-free trade views directly with Canadian politicians, her networking efforts were mostly fruitless.
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No, not the Beto O'Rourke you're probably thinking of, the one who captured the nation's imagination with an improbable and ultimately fruitless Senate bid in Texas.
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It came after a fruitless last-minute negotiating session at the White House between Mr. Trump and Senator Chuck Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader.
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After many minutes of fruitless searching, he spotted the duck nestled near a rock across the Pond, on the eastern shore of the Hallett Nature Sanctuary.
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One unconfirmed media report in mid-September claimed that his team had engaged in discussions with Mr. Kaepernick, ultimately fruitless, to back up quarterback Tom Brady.
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Those fruitless decades were eventful, at least, as the franchise migrated from Philadelphia to Kansas City to the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, where it has remained.
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But he said the talks became increasingly difficult and fruitless as relations between the United States and the North deteriorated further over the North's missile tests.
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The other is Honka's attic apartment, which gets a fruitless cleaning when the mostly oblivious Gerda (Margarethe Tiesel) accompanies Fritz home one night and sticks around.
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There will probably be no more fruitless gesture of President Obama's lame-duck term than his fourth and likely final visit to Saudi Arabia last week.
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A search of the seabed has been fruitless, but pieces of debris that have drifted to shore have been confirmed to have come from the plane.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier this week dismissed those talks as "fruitless sitting around" and said Ankara might prove a more effective partner on Syria.
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But Graves, an even-keeled general aviation pilot, acknowledged that his effort would be fruitless if Republicans don't hang on to their majority in the House.
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But popular support hasn't translated into congressional support, and Dreamers' legal status has become tied up in the fruitless search for a broader immigration-reform deal.
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Hopes that young advisors like his daughter and son-in-law could moderate his reactionary views on issues like climate change or health care proved fruitless.
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I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
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The legislature's bid to make the standards voluntary rather than suspending them was an attempt to finesse Kasich's opposition, but in the end it proved fruitless.
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Greece, which signed up to a third bailout last summer, has made several fruitless attempts over the last 50 years to find big oil and gas reserves.
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Gizmodo's further attempts to identify the administrators of Rootbocks were ultimately fruitless, but jurisdiction notes in the site's privacy policy suggests it may be incorporated in Georgia.
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Rudy Giuliani, a lawyer for Trump who has repeatedly criticized the Mueller probe as a fruitless "witch hunt", dismissed the sharing of data with Kilimnik as inconsequential.
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In her statement Monday, after a largely fruitless trip to Brussels late last week, the prime minister all but ruled out a second referendum on her watch.
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Moreover, many Americans have no choice but to settle for part-time work or are too discouraged to keep looking for employment after years of fruitless searching.
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That's not to say no one should try and take on the big guys on, but without new tech such as heavy encryption, it may prove fruitless.
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The doctor goes about this hopeless business quietly, without fanfare, knowing that his struggle against death is mainly fruitless and that his own demise is the likelihood.
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We don't really have the option of moving our lives off of the internet, and coordinated boycotts of our monstrous platforms have been brief and mostly fruitless.
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On April 3 — after much fruitless searching and mystery, some of which spawned wild and since-debunked conspiracy theories — his body was pulled from the Chattahoochee River.
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After months of fruitless coalition talks between different combinations of parties, a second election looks increasingly likely, though polls show it too would produce an inconclusive result.
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After fruitless efforts to curtail the massive numbers of vehicles from scooter-share companies such as Lime, Spin, and Bird, the city developed a permitted pilot program.
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Congressional leaders will return to the White House Friday for the second meeting this week to work out a deal, but negotiations thus far have proven fruitless.
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"As decades of fruitless efforts have proven, trying to identify 'judicially discernible and manageagble standards' for adjudicating generalized political grievances is an exercise in futility," he wrote.
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After five decades of fruitless searching, Betty Morrell, 82, was reunited with her 96-year-old birthmother, Lena Pierce, for the first time since she was born.
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But after two fruitless rounds of meetings smelters and miners are still far apart on how much new supply to expect and how quickly to expect it.
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But for people getting into skincare for the first time, the constant framing of certain products as magical cure-alls can lead to some seriously fruitless investments.
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Barack Obama tried to embrace him early on as a model for Muslim democracy, a policy that proved to be nearly as fruitless as the Russia Reset.
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Kurt Severing, a journalist, finds that his efforts to expose the truth seem ever more fruitless against larger machinations that continue to turn regardless of public opinion.
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On Friday night, the Italian Navy said the rescue operations, coordinated by the Libyan Rescue Coordination Center, had concluded after the search for the dinghy proved fruitless.
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On my third day of fruitless searching, when I see a young woman sitting on the sidewalk with two cats on leashes, asking for money, I stop.
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" Papadopoulos said that the meeting was "bizarre" and fruitless because "of course there is no conspiracy, and I have never even met a Russian official in my life.
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Highly skilled attackers who have access to advanced tools won't waste their time on such a fruitless attack, as the only possible gain is helping spread political propaganda.
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" The charity said its decision to oppose Pfizer's patent application came after "years of fruitless negotiations with Pfizer to lower the vaccine's price for use in its projects.
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And while it's fruitless to apply today's standards to people who lived in the past, we can choose what to do with the information once we have it.
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I thought that even going for the same character again was a completely fruitless exercise, but I also didn't want to not do an audition for Quentin Tarantino.
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Online forums and reviews for various monitors and trackers are littered with complaints of inaccurate or meaningless readings, with concerned parents sharing stories of fruitless and fretful troubleshooting.
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Police officers face a laborious and often fruitless task when they try to match photos of crime suspects to mug shots of people who have already been arrested.
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Cadaver dogs found nothing after sniffing through the charred, ashy remnants of his home on Quartz Hill Road, and searches across neighborhood shelters and hospitals had proved fruitless.
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"The fruitless sanctions on Iran's leadership and the chief of Iranian diplomacy mean the permanent closure of the road of diplomacy with the frustrated U.S. administration," Mousavi said.
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For two "totally fruitless" years at the beginning of this decade, Gregory Falkovich, a pen-and-paper theorist at Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science, stared at those equations.
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Yet the 18 years of force proved that the policy of aggression and tyranny is fruitless and demonstrates ignorance regarding why Afghanistan is called the Graveyard of Empires.
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But Giuliani implied Wednesday that inquiry is fruitless, because of what he described as the president&aposs inherent authority to terminate high-ranking members of the executive branch.
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The largely fruitless quest for reparations became entangled in the skein of inter-Allied wartime debts, illustrating the importance of debt forgiveness between friends as well as foes.
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But don't feel too bad for the male burying beetles; the pheromone also stops females from producing eggs so, from an evolutionary standpoint, mating would be pretty fruitless.
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While the Jets will certainly profess happiness with their draft class, it seems pockmarked by their fruitless attempts to trade up for the top talents they truly preferred.
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Yet Republicans lawmakers remain deeply opposed to the legislation – the House of Representatives has voted dozens of times to repeal the law in a fruitless display of pique.
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He once skipped a flight home to extend a fruitless weekend scouting singles, buying a ticket on a last minute red-eye to visit a Mormon ex-girlfriend.
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Lynch also contributed $28503,22019 to the failed 2008 campaign of North Carolina investment banker Jim Neal and $2,000 to the fruitless 2008 campaign of Oregon politician Steve Novick.
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Relying on science to arbitrate the male-female divide in sports is fruitless, they said, because science could not draw a line that nature itself refused to draw.
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With China, Russia, India and a number of other countries constantly cheating the rules of international climate agreements, it makes staying in them an expensive — yet fruitless — cause.
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To talk too noisily about martyrdom in this context is to mistake today for yesterday, to risk a slippage back into the fruitless religious struggles of the past.
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Common Sense In a persistent (and thus far fruitless) effort to hobble giant American technology companies, the European Union has again taken aim at Alphabet's Google search engine.
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This year, however, members have so few accomplishments and such a long to-do list, that returning to their districts may be fruitless from a political stand point.
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After three fruitless trips to the A.L.C.S. — in 1985, 1989 and 1991 — they had broken through with titles in 1992 and 1993, deftly interchanging superstars between those seasons.
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He had been substituted — after yet another fruitless excursion here, to this stadium where he has never scored, this place he must really hate — a few minutes earlier.
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Even Thanos can't resist, head-butting Captain Marvel during the final fight in a fruitless but perfectly understandable attempt to get closer to the movie's best new haircut.
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But he told colleagues that he bitterly resented the fruitless, politically damaging health care debate, and announced his retirement in a statement that took the N.R.C.C. by surprise.
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"We had a puppy with no mother and no milk," Eisen says of the predicament, which she tried to resolve with alternative feeding methods that all proved fruitless.
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After weeks of fruitless talks with Congress, the administration said last week that it would shift nearly $600 million to anti-Zika efforts from Ebola and other programs.
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Romantic comedies are essentially cinema's comfort food, and expecting them to stray from formula is almost as fruitless as expecting McDonald's to alter the flavor of its fries.
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The administration's efforts have mostly been fruitless thus far, with both the United Kingdom and Germany in recent weeks allowing the company's technology products into their telecommunications networks.
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Less fanciful, but so far equally fruitless, have been schemes to source lots of geothermal power, or capture the high-velocity winds of the stratosphere with large kites.
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But efforts to make good on their years-long campaign promise have so far been fruitless, with leaders moving on to tax reform as their next top priority.
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However, searching for "virtual" proved fruitless, and "VR" turned up little more than an episode of Itchy & Scratchy, so we're just gonna say the redditor in question knows magic.
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"Unless Mexico will treat the US fairly, with respect, such a meeting is fruitless, and I want to go a different route," Trump told House and Senate GOP lawmakers.
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MPs voted against May's amended Brexit deal by 20163 to 242 as her last-minute talks with EU chiefs on Monday to assuage her critics' concerns ultimately proved fruitless.
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Drake reported his concerns about the NSA's wiretapping to the Department of Defense Inspector General, Congress, and -- after those avenues proved fruitless -- to a reporter at the Baltimore Sun.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads Members of the New Museum Union in New York have threatened to strike after months of fruitless contract negotiation with the museum's management.
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Chasing talent, which is what fund firms do by piling on tasks to their best managers, is foolish in the same way as it is fruitless to chase returns.
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Gumroad's Lavingia got all sorts of push-back, including from those arguing that even a financially fruitless experience can teach things that lead to higher earnings in future jobs.
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Besides thinking it fruitless, many of the holdouts, including those two, are increasingly investing in renewable energy and other schemes that benefit from the decarbonisation policies they formerly decried.
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Lawmakers voted against May's amended Brexit deal by 21.1287 to 220 as her last-minute talks with EU chiefs on Monday to assuage her critics' concerns ultimately proved fruitless.
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Image: DigitalGlobe/BASHigh-resolution imagery captured by the WorldView2 and WorldView3 satellites showed near-complete reproductive failure in 2016, followed by similarly fruitless breeding campaigns in 2017 and 2018.
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The lesson from the Obama presidency is that it's fruitless to appease the people who will hate you anyway—and that you don't need their approval to succeed anyway.
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Where Arsenal and Liverpool look devoid of a 'Plan B' if their slick, quick-passing style fails, sixth-placed United can successfully adapt if their initial plans prove fruitless.
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Lawmakers voted against May's amended Brexit deal by 21.1289 to 220 as her last-minute talks with EU chiefs on Monday to assuage her critics' concerns ultimately proved fruitless.
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But the new recognition that seems to be emerging in Mountain View and elsewhere is that software without control of the hardware can be just as fruitless an endeavor.
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John McCain ultimately put the long and fruitless Republican push to upend Obamacare out of its misery, but Trump seemed determined to make the process as painful as possible.
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"It's almost as though I used a curse word," Ms. Le Pen said acidly as she left the Elysée after her fruitless pitch to Mr. Hollande for a referendum.
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But its combative strategy has proved fruitless so far: negotiations on a deal have stalled and both sides have escalated the trade war with additional tariffs in recent weeks.
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I didn't bother mentioning it, because it felt so fruitless, but while corresponding with you, I have also been corresponding with what I think is a robot at Hotmail.
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In the vigils that have grown with every day of fruitless searches, families and friends have prayed, made offerings, and held fast to the possibility of signs of life.
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After weeks of fruitless efforts, the owners resigned themselves to the idea that Misty had been picked up by a coyote that killed a neighborhood cat earlier that year.
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But Aaliyah was fortunate to wind up with Timbaland and songwriter Missy Elliott, both of whom had just spent years in an ultimately fruitless deal with Jodeci's Devante Swing.
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Peru's president, Martin Vizcarra, dissolved the country's congress earlier in the month after months of efforts to eliminate corruption proved fruitless due to right-wing lawmakers stonewalling new policies.
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She also acquired an old iPod Touch to use solely for work, but that turned out to be fruitless when she learned it wasn't compatible with the latest MacBook.
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The first definite reference to April Fools' Day comes from a 225 Flemish poem by Eduard de Dene, in which a nobleman sends his servant on annoying, fruitless errands.
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Months of fruitless coalition talks following inconclusive national elections in December have left it in political limbo, and on Thursday public finances also took a turn for the worse.
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Persisting with fruitless negotiations could be negative for TIM, as Open Fiber continues to grow its overlap on TIM's network, UBS analyst Giovanni Montalti said in a research note.
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Persisting with fruitless negotiations could be negative for TIM, as Open Fiber continues to grow its overlap on TIM's network, UBS analyst Giovanni Montalti said in a research note.
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Lawmakers voted against May's amended Brexit deal by 220 to 21.1174 as her last-minute talks with EU chiefs on Monday to assuage her critics' concerns ultimately proved fruitless.
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Rogers vented frustration over his fruitless efforts to lawmakers during a recent closed-door briefing on Capitol Hill, a congressional source familiar with the meeting told the news network.
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And that's the case whether the bot is offering up the name of a retired Trump donor from Oklahoma City or showing how fruitless Twitter political arguments really are.
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Doug Band, the senior executive at the Clinton Foundation, expedited Salman's access to Hillary Clinton after efforts to set up a meeting through normal State Department channels proved fruitless.
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"Unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect, such a meeting would be fruitless, and I want to go a different route," Mr. Trump said.
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Grassley, however, has warned that passing a bill is critical for the GOP to keep control of the Senate and that a partisan path forward would have been fruitless.
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Bringing aid to besieged areas is a crucial part of diplomatic efforts to end the wider conflict, sponsored since last year by Washington and Moscow but so far fruitless.
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"An average citizen showcasing a political viewpoint Google and the left disagreed with would almost certainly have had a far more difficult — and fruitless — time fighting back," he wrote.
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And we&aposre at a moment, I thought this protest was telling in that regard, kind of pointed in which culture meeting maybe turning because it was a fruitless protest.
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That's a tall order, and not only because previous searches — including the 1,046-day effort conducted by the Malaysian, Chinese and Australian governments immediately after the disappearance — have been fruitless.
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It comes after months of fruitless diplomacy since Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) party won elections in October and imposed changes on the Constitutional Court and the Polish public broadcaster.
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Most prominently, he has served as the chief negotiator with the North Koreans, developing a strategy that, while so far fruitless, did get Kim Jong Un to the negotiating table.
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So a trip with $3,000 in reimbursed expenses, no matter how fruitless, will still net the traveller $135 worth of points, or potentially more if they are spent on flights.
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And because investments in R&D have been so fruitless many large drugmakers have relatively few therapies in the pipeline to drive sales once patents run out on existing drugs.
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The accident presumably took all 239 lives on board, and searches to find the plane and offer closure to the victims have turned up mostly fruitless, aside from some debris.
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After two years of fruitless talks, the EU executive commission will make a new attempt to overcome the deadlock with new proposals which are expected to be published on Wednesday.
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"EPA has ensured that the debate will continue to look backwards at the fruitless fight between corn and oil," said Harvard University professor and former Obama Administration advisor James Stock.
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He will likely do everything he can to try to prevent this outcome, but as we all know, the future is already written and his feeble attempts will prove fruitless.
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Horford would also race up the floor in semi-transition and body Love early in the shot clock while Thompson dragged behind after a fruitless lunge at the offensive glass.
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And few public servants possess the skills and cross-party support to navigate through these months with a promise of clear answers, free of politicization, endless leaks and fruitless drama.
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Prisoner Two303-Year-Old from Waterloo, Iowa Served Ten Years for Possessing 36.1 Grams of Marijuana Released in June 2013 I believe that inmates tend to have many fruitless conversations.
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Countries should curtail fruitless tax breaks and instead adopt simpler tax regimes and support research and development (R&D), education and infrastructure, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday.
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Trump characterized the session Thursday as fruitless, and downplayed the role of the other two participants in the meeting, son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort.
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The last talks between the Israelis and Palestinians, led by former U.S. secretary of state John Kerry, broke down in April 2014 after around a year of largely fruitless discussion.
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Americans are not in favor of impeachment and, with two years to go before the election, it will be a fruitless venture that will further polarize an already divided nation.
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While the President tweets that talk is not working and engagement is fruitless, he is clearly pushing his Cabinet to develop and prepare concrete steps against China and North Korea.
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Only Father Douglas (Martin Sheen, performing in Spanish with masterly assurance) believes in a better future, but his efforts to encourage the locals to replenish the population have been fruitless.
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But Trump, who had once threatened to walk away from his negotiations with Kim if they appeared to be fruitless, allowed the dictator to leave Singapore with few hard commitments.
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Thailand's largest and wealthiest temple, Dhammakaya has staged similar spectacles at its vast complex north of Bangkok, which police besieged last year in a fruitless search for its fugitive abbot.
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After weeks of fruitless talks between the various parties, 5-Star and the League finally agreed to a government pact last Friday, promising to hike taxes and jack up spending.
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This prompted an extensive counter-operation, with US investigators flying to Moscow to seek help from Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs, in what turned out to be a fruitless endeavor.
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When the dust settles on yet another fruitless American adventure trek over the Atlantic, however, Jim Furyk may reflect on the four calls he made when naming his captain's picks.
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So moving pre-emptively to block a specific means of imitation isn't necessarily fruitless; it might be an entirely reasonable precaution against some dark ambition that's just now taking shape.
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After more than a decade of fruitless searching, I found the basic education I had been seeking from a Twitter post referencing voting rights restoration that led me to RestoreYourVote.org.
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One of the Beckley teaching assistants, a 33-year-old named Maxx Turner, had already been fired, then rehired after several fruitless months of searching for programming work, he said.
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The fear among some Democrats is that Sanders and his supporters could do damage waging a fruitless battle against Biden at the same time Trump and Republicans are attacking him.
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Yet the theory — embraced by hopeful liberals in states like Texas and Florida — that charismatic and unapologetically progressive leaders might transmute Republican bastions into purple political battlegrounds, proved largely fruitless.
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But the snow falling on Moscow was perhaps more reflective of the damp chill in the Kremlin's relations with Europe after yet another fruitless attempt to influence an election abroad.
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Greece has made several fruitless attempts over the last 50 years to find big oil and gas reserves, but its debt crisis has prompted it to step up those efforts.
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Scavino's first assignment was to try to find big-ticket contributors to Trump's campaign, an effort that proved fruitless, as the Republican donor class did not take his candidacy seriously.
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Mets 6, Nationals 5 | 12 innings WASHINGTON — After five fruitless at-bats, Yoenis Cespedes found the perfect moment to lift his team at the end of a long, sloppy game.
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Militants of ETA had been expected to make a formal announcement some time this week, after almost six decades of fruitless and violent resistance to the central government in Madrid.
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The city documents a long list of fruitless attempts it made to get Harbour, which is led by Charles A. Vose III, to make repairs to homes and pay fines.
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" Stemming the tide of misinformation in the Trump era can be dizzying, and fact-checking can feel fruitless when the president's most diehard supporters dismiss hard evidence as "fake news.
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In May 2013, Mr. Sullivan heard from a reader who, after a fruitless attempt to prove Chekhov's authorship of those words, wanted help uncovering the true history of the quotation.
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Economic "growth" is limited to a pitiful rebound after 17 percent slump in 2014-2015, while reforms are blocked by the fruitless struggle between powerful cliques of oligarchs and politicians.
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Contrary to his campaign promises to put Americans back to work, President Trump's only real policy effort to date has been a fruitless crusade to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
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Scraps of aircraft debris have washed up on the east African coastline, but two underwater searches in the southern Indian Ocean proved fruitless, leaving few clues as to what happened.
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"It's almost definitely going to be fruitless, and you'll have all this brain damage [from the attempt] — so you just assume it's not worthwhile to pursue Chinese money," he said.
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Therefore, if Trump were to meet with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, the meeting could ultimately prove to be fruitless because staffers haven't had much time to work on important issues.
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The story of climate policy in the state has been almost entirely dismal, culminating last year in a divisive and ultimately fruitless battle over the right kind of carbon tax.
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"Unless Mexico will treat the US fairly, with respect, such a meeting is fruitless, and I want to go a different route," Trump told GOP lawmakers at a retreat in Philadelphia.
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Although his story in the books is entertaining, his quest comes to an abrupt and fruitless end when he's turned down by Daenerys — then horribly burned to death by her dragons.
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Commerzbank approached the larger Deutsche Bank about a potential merger, a senior Deutsche Bank executive said, an overture that kicked off six weeks of intensive and frantic but ultimately fruitless talks.
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As a result, a resistance to accountability persists throughout much of BPD, and many officers are reluctant to report misconduct for fear that doing so is fruitless and may provoke retaliation.
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Thus begins the second part of this saga: the fruitless search for answers—and the strange form of madness that seems to overcome anyone who gets too close to the subject.
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Efforts to extract more information have proven fruitless: a spokesperson would not discuss the number of employees working on the effort (calling it a "personnel matter"), or when the project began.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - The impoverished family of Australia's most famous Aboriginal artist, Albert Namatjira, has been given copyright to his works after years of fruitless campaigning triggered the intervention of a philanthropist.
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Furlan's efforts to make peace among dissenting shareholders have been fruitless, he said in relation to negotiations between Petros, Previ and Península, the investment vehicle of current BRF Chairman Abilio Diniz.
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Spain's parties have been in fruitless negotiations to form a government since a December vote when Spaniards weary of austerity and corruption deserted the two traditional parties to vote for newcomers.
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My loins are fruitless but my principles are clear: No human being — woman or man — should be regarded as a conquest or an amusement with a will subservient to someone else's.
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Agonizing wait In the vigils that have grown with every day of fruitless searches, families and friends have prayed, made offerings and held fast to the possibility of signs of life.
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Civil liberties be damned: Mayor Fiorello La Guardia invoked his authority as a magistrate to ban the sale of artichokes, in a fruitless effort to bust organized crime's price-fixing monopoly.
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A previous A$200-million ($159 million) search by Australia, China and Malaysia across a 120,000 square-kilometer (46,332 square mile) expanse of the Indian Ocean last year was also fruitless.
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Some argue it would be a way to stop waiting for the two sides to finally step up; others consider it a fruitless waste of the president's waning time in office.
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"That could happen if the talks in The Hague are fruitless, but we have a tradition in the Netherlands of forming coalitions even with so many parties (in play)," he said.
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Greene decided to start working on a babysitter app after a fruitless evening spent calling people to watch his kids so he could go out after a long day at work.
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But the Spanish government has said ETA would not win any concessions in return for dissolving itself, and few appear willing to absolve the group of its history of fruitless bloodshed.
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Charles M. Blow We are once again in the throes of a worn and increasingly fruitless post-massacre protocol that ritualizes our stages of grief and anesthetizes our expectations of action.
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When Mr. Trump was running for office, he criticized his predecessors for letting North Korea continue to expand its arsenal while engaging the United States in lengthy and ultimately fruitless negotiations.
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He spent $12 million on corporate consultants in a fruitless reorganization project led by young business professionals who had to be told that Ottawa, Canada's capital, was in a foreign country.
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The evidence being examined by the bureau came up fruitless, but Clinton has complained that the resurfacing of the scandal so close to Election Day had reintroduced doubt into voters' minds.
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"We're here demanding it," Ms. Horn, Selena's aunt, had said one afternoon, warming her hands with a bowl of chili as volunteers returned from another fruitless search of the nearby hills.
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In response to questions from CNN, Taliban commanders in Herat, northwestern Afghanistan, said they would fight to rid the country of all foreign influences but that fighting among Afghans was fruitless.
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During the run-up to the election, Mr. Rutter said, he had cut the cord in part because keeping up with different interpretations of current events on television had become fruitless.
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"I had picked out clothes, I had already started booking studio sessions, I started arranging my album, thinking of marketing schemes," he explains, of an ultimately fruitless offer from Capitol Records.
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"No further evidence is required to establish the political motivation of the attorney general's fruitless year-and-a-half long investigation pursuing his ever-shifting and unraveling investigative theories," they said.
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Brands and corporations seized upon the moment to provide X and Y thing that you can buy in the fruitless hope that it will make you happy and fix your life.
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They can still make the playoffs—combining the NBA's third-easiest schedule from here on with Brad Beal's transformation into a walking inferno doesn't hurt—but doing so would be fruitless.
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More than two million people are packed into Gaza, whose economic plight is a focus of so-far fruitless U.S.-led efforts to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, stalled since 2014.
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It was the second major search after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200 million ($144.80 million) search across an area of 120,000 sq km (46,332 sq miles) last year.
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But FCC and FBI involvement at the time proved fruitless, and civilian theories have had as much success in the intervening years at determining the identity or the motive of the hackers.
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Despite a history of promising but ultimately fruitless searches for planets around this star, an analysis of archival data from observations of the star's velocity seemed to reveal a slight repeating signal.
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A fruitless search for a red alligator handbag to match her suit led Marks to conclude that a niche existed in the marketplace for luxury, exotic leather fashion handbags in fabulous colors.
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It is fruitless to tell a bully that, actually, it is only because he is holding your hand and smacking you with it that you could be said to be hitting yourself.
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There's little hope of resolving the question using DNA: the dry, hot conditions in Israel are terrible for preservation, and he doesn't want to risk the small sample on a fruitless effort.
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After a series of fruitless searches, I discovered that the last time she'd appeared in public was in 313, as a "special guest" at an image processing industry conference in Quebec City.
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Originally planted in the late 19th century and abandoned at the beginning of the First World War, like so many thousands of groves like it, it had long ago been considered fruitless.
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The petition is only the most public episode in fruitless talks Thrive Market's founders have been having behind the scenes with the agency since the startup was conceived nearly two years ago.
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As Europe enters uncertain waters with Britain's historic decision to exit the European Union, Spanish parties are under pressure to avoid the protracted, ultimately fruitless negotiations that followed an inconclusive December ballot.
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And, despite the fact that Instagram has made an effort to copy nearly all of Snapchat's signature features, treating the two apps as similar platforms to begin with is a fruitless exercise.
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Spokesman Salem al-Muslet, speaking to reporters in the Swiss city, said that the opposition delegation did not want this round to be like the one a year ago which was fruitless.
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And this crusade against gluten might not just be fruitless (and expensive—according to Levinovitz, gluten-free products average at 242 percent more expensive than their gluten-containing versions), but actually harmful.
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And despite the fact that Instagram has made an effort to copy nearly all of Snapchat's signature features, treating the two apps as similar platforms to begin with is a fruitless exercise.
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The negotiators have done him no favours, then, with the very public (and ultimately fruitless) pursuit of Jamie Vardy earlier in the summer, not to mention the latest revelations about Alexandre Lacazette.
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"There's no reason for us now to back down from our days of mobilization," Mr. Martinez told reporters on Friday after a fruitless meeting with the labor minister to end the standoff.
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They have determined that it is fruitless to seek solutions from the very entities whose misdeeds they're protesting, and they are looking for alternatives to policing in community action and restorative justice.
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"Repeated efforts to communicate to the U.S. administration that none of the stated criteria driving America's tariffs are applicable to Turkey have thus far proven fruitless," Ruhsar Pekcan said in a statement.
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In 2014, the city dug up 274 bodies on Hart Island in a fruitless search for the body of a woman named Rebecca Alper, 71, after a relative asked about her remains.
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Howes was the first rider of the breakaway group to be caught, about nine miles short of the finish, after spending more than five hours in a fruitless battle against the wind.
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Pelosi and other congressional leaders huddled with the president at the White House Wednesday for an ultimately fruitless negotiation to try to bridge the differences between the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
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It was the second major search after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200-million ($147.06 million) search across an area of 120,000 sq km (46,332 sq miles) last year.
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The Palestinians have acceded to many demands over their years of largely fruitless negotiation, but East Jerusalem as the capital of a two-state solution will not conceivably be one of them.
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Yet a week of ground searches has proved fruitless, and now we are circling in a plane and still nothing and, holy mother of Horton, how can such massive creatures go missing?
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After a year and a half of largely fruitless diplomacy with President Trump, Mr. Kim said late last month that his country would no longer hope for a diplomatic breakthrough with Washington.
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" The budget process has dragged on past its April 1 deadline, resulting in the tardiest plan of Mr. Cuomo's tenure, including a fruitless weekend session that the governor called "a grace period.
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Saeed dangled the hope of spiritual forgiveness; he pointed out that a legal case wasn't likely to result in a favorable verdict but was certain to cause years of fruitless, harrowing hearings.
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That history shows that terrorists only rarely suffer from any kind of personality disorder or psychological condition, which is why the search for the "terrorist personality" has proved fruitless and been discredited.
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A second search, carried out on a no-find, no-fee basis by US-based company Ocean Infinity, ended last year after a fruitless 90-day sweep of the southern Indian Ocean.
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Lewandowski faced friendlier questions from Republican lawmakers, who unsuccessfully sought to have the hearing adjourned early on and accused Democrats of pursuing an endless and fruitless investigation of Trump for political purposes.
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Miranda North (Rebecca Ferguson), who is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and makes fruitless arguments for quarantines, translates: Calvin can simultaneously be all muscle, all brain and all eye.
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Democrats are mounting a concerted, though likely fruitless, effort to get Republican leadership in the Senate to delay the tax bill vote until Mr. Jones is seated as a senator from Alabama.
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After several months of fruitless searching, Kelly ultimately recommended Nielsen — who had come to the White House with him and was serving as his principal deputy chief of staff — for the job.
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After several months of fruitless searching, Kelly ultimately recommended Nielsen — who had come to the White House with him and was serving as his principal deputy chief of staff — for the job.
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It was the second major search after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200 million ($147.06 million) search across an area of 120,000 sq km (46,3703 sq miles) last year.
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A 12-hour standoff with security forces ended when around 100 commandos stormed the building, killing six of the militants and capturing a seventh after attempts at negotiations proved fruitless, authorities said.
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On the other: Thugger's voice, style, and flow is so recognizable that it feels fruitless to attempt to build a long-term career on the basis of surfing in on its wave.
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With the exception of a few, there is an unwillingness to associate publicly with the man, and my attempts at giving his supporters a fair hearing are both largely fruitless and hugely insightful.
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For over a decade, Wu led Beijing's mostly fruitless efforts to denuclearize the Korean peninsula under so-called Six Party talks between China, the United States, North and South Korea, Japan and Russia.
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With the pretty notable dearth of VR content, conversations surrounding VR's lack of a "killer app" can seem a bit fruitless, but Milk says that the killer app already exists — it's VR storytelling.
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"I tried for so long to get out of my head by making stand-up shows about how I was in my own head, and that quickly proved to be fruitless," he said.
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Donald Trump fought us every step of the way, filing baseless charges and fruitless appeals and refusing to settle for even modest amounts of compensation for the victims of his phony university.
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Schneider, a former partner at angel fund AF Square, got the idea for Ritual more than a year ago after a fruitless search for prenatal vitamins that didn't contain things like food coloring.
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Following a fruitless meeting between the powers in Geneva on Wednesday, U.S. Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Andrea Thompson said Washington intended to withdraw from the treaty on Feb. 2.
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The fruitless War on Drugs rages on, but now that the struggle has outgrown inner cities and reached rural and Middle America, sympathy, abundant resources, and an aversion to criminalization are en vogue.
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The European Commission proposed on Wednesday watered-down measures to help guard European Union banks against future crises, after two years of fruitless talks among the 225 EU states on more ambitious plans.
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The Savage family says her video's not enough to assure them she's fine, though, and because efforts to communicate with R. Kelly's team have been fruitless so far ... they're taking the next step.
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Madrid's eight-day deadline for Catalonia to drop its independence bid could prove to be fruitless, according to political analysts, who believe that pro-separatist Catalan President Carles Puigdemont will not back down.
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This proved to be fruitless, as China spent more than a year refusing to even provide data about the fundamental problem, let alone giving any indications that it was serious about necessary reforms.
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The two sides met for talks in August after a sustained military stand-off and agreed to reduce tension and hold further talks at vice-ministerial level, although subsequent negotiations have been fruitless.
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A brief glance at the history of engagement with the regime provides ample evidence that it is not only a fruitless policy but one rooted in illusion and disconnected from the historical record.
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After months of fruitless coalition talks, both Podemos and Ciudadanos appeared to have lost part of the momentum and novelty factor that helped them enter Spain's Parliament for the first time last December.
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This execution mission, at least in storytelling universe, is destined to be a fruitless one, so the real thrust of "Gloves Off" is Mike's street-wise instincts and reluctance to enter murderous waters.
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Mar del Plata, Argentina (CNN)As a multinational search to find an Argentine submarine remains fruitless more than a week after it vanished, authorities fear crew members may be running out of time.
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"I would like this to be easy and quick, but today we have taken the first step in a long walk," Mr. Rajoy told reporters on Wednesday after two days of fruitless talks.
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Becker noted that the company is aiming for carbon neutrality rather than detailing specific plans to reduce emissions outright, leaving the door open to fruitless efforts to offset gases instead of eliminating them.
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As an experienced negotiator, I can tell you that negotiation with these madmen will be fruitless once they have the ability to lob a nuclear missile into Chicago, Los Angeles, or New York.
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A standoff of nearly 12 hours with security forces ended when the commandos stormed the building, killing six of the militants and capturing a seventh after attempts at negotiations proved fruitless, authorities said.
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He had instead said that the work Dr. Aleksandr Kogan did for the company was "fruitless" and thus that the Facebook data Kogan had harvested and supplied to it had not been used.
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Their appearance at the Chti's Cup, a competitive youth tournament, is the latest stop in what for most will be an unlikely (and in most cases, fruitless) journey toward a professional soccer career.
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A week after a fruitless meeting in Vietnam with Mr. Kim, the North Korean leader, Mr. Trump attempted to avoid sounding very concerned about satellite evidence that Pyongyang was reactivating the launch site.
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With medicine increasingly scarce in Venezuela, it has become a near-daily ordeal for him to visit as many as seven pharmacies in an often fruitless search for the eye drops he needs.
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Both meetings, while seemingly fruitless, starkly illustrated the extent to which Syria's fate now lies in the hands of foreign powers and offered little hope that those powers could resolve the crisis diplomatically.
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They would avoid fruitless battles over the debt ceiling, and they would acknowledge that the deficit itself could be deployed as a potent weapon in the fights against inequality, poverty and economic stagnation.
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Up to that point, the group had toiled for three fruitless years and saw personnel changes both in its lineup and management (half its original members bolted to launch a separate group, Bestie).
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Yiannis Philipopoulos said he and his wife recognized 9-year-old Sophia and Vasiliki in the news footage after spending a fruitless day searching hospitals and giving DNA samples at the Athens morgue.
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They're still stinging from spending all of this year in a draining but fruitless effort to repeal and replace Obamacare — the law that congressional Republicans have been trying to uproot for seven years.
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But Mr. Corker decided the effort was fruitless and called Mr. Tillerson from a secure location in the Capitol to let him know that he was proceeding with a strong Russia sanctions bill.
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In one test with a colleague during filming, we found that the microphone wasn't always clear, so speaking anything other than a brief "come in" or "be right there" was kind of fruitless.
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Two pieces of bone fragment with burn marks were found in a 200-litre oil drum, submerged near Kaeng Krachan dam in May as authorities searched for evidence after years of fruitless investigation.
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It appears that Papadopoulos was gathering evidence for Mueller, probably by talking to his former Trump campaign colleagues while wired -- a process that would have been fruitless if his guilty plea had become public.
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The new vote follows four months of fruitless coalition talks between Spain's four main parties after the inconclusive ballot stripped the conservative People's Party (PP) of acting prime minister Mariano Rajoy of its majority.
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ROME (Reuters) - Efforts to end Italy's political stalemate stalled on Friday after two days of fruitless talks, with President Sergio Mattarella saying he needed more time to try to put together a coalition government.
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The scientists said the dogs — "one of the most popular and unhealthiest of dog breeds" — were so lacking in genetic diversity that efforts to improve the breed from existing genetic stock might be fruitless.
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With negotiations regarding the border wall fruitless so far, Trump is considering declaring a national emergency to get the wall built if lawmakers won't approve the necessary funds, according to The New York Times.
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Trump himself falsely claimed he actually won the popular vote in 2016 if you disregarded a couple million "illegal" votes in California; he even set up a fruitless voter fraud commission to prove it.
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Over the last 50 years, it has made several fruitless attempts to find big oil and gas reserves but important findings in neighbouring countries recently have prompted the country to step up those efforts.
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After three rounds of fruitless bargaining, more than 20,000 workers at VW's core Wolfsburg factory had walked off their shifts for two hours on Thursday, staging the first warning strikes at VW since 2004.
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On Tuesday we reported that after nearly 20 long years of fruitless hoping and repeated, predictable disappointment, the legalization of mixed martial arts in New York State finally looks like it's going to happen.
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While it seems cruel that Margaery's long con was cut short, I guess it wasn't totally fruitless — she taught our girl up North how to play the game, and that is definitely paying dividends.
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The deal valued Acuris at about 1 billion pounds ($1.28 billion) and came after efforts to find a buyer who was willing to take on the whole company for the same valuation were fruitless.
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Neither of those positions have changed substantively over the course of talks, and before lawmakers left town, moderates essentially said if conservatives can't agree on a path to citizenship, further negotiations would be fruitless.
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However, the protests have died down in recent weeks, with many in the opposition viewing them as fruitless after socialist President Nicolas Maduro's government sidelined the National Assembly and created its own legislative superbody.
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After months of fruitless negotiation in Raleigh, the NCAA told legislators and Cooper they had just days to roll back the bill before various subsidiary committees chose championship locations for the next several years.
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Over the past few weeks, Trump derangement syndrome reached new levels after the left openly defended some of the most vicious, evil human elements around the globe in fruitless opposition to the president's administration.
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At fruitless meetings with the German and French leaders ahead of the Group of Seven meeting in Biarritz, Johnson reiterated his demand that the European Union reopen withdrawal talks to seek a new deal.
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"Repeated efforts to communicate to the U.S. administration that none of the stated criteria driving America's tariffs are applicable to Turkey have thus far proven fruitless," Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan said in a statement.
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In comments after his swearing-in ceremony Saturday, Iran's Rouhani said, "The sanctions policy in today's world is a failed and fruitless policy," according to a report from Iran's semi-official Fars news agency.
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The core business has been badly affected by overambitious cost-saving programmes after failed investments in the Americas and three years of fruitless talks about a steel joint venture with Tata Steel, he added.
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It was ultimately the sound of tapping that led rescuers to the last of the trapped men on the ship, but early attempts to make contact with the South Korean crew members were fruitless.
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Three months of fruitless attempts by Mies and others to forestall this inevitable conclusion followed; they tried various ways to accommodate themselves to the Nazis and preserve the Bauhaus as a private art school.
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In the months after that hospital visit, she took three fruitless trips to the E.R., where a pelvic exam and CAT scan confirmed she had cysts on her ovaries but couldn't show endometrial lesions.
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Pick-up trucks come in handy when you need to haul stuff around, until you roll into the city and start the fruitless hunt for a parking spot to accommodate all 20 feet of truck.
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Western diplomats said De Mistura was hopeful of bringing the opposing Syrian factions face to face - unlike last year, when he was forced to shuttle between them in "proximity talks" that proved to be fruitless.
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The discovery happened at the end of another fruitless day when a frog suddenly jumped in a nearby pond, Teresa Camacho Badani, the Alcide d'Orbigny Natural History Museum's chief of herpetology, told Global Wildlife Conservation.
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At the same time, he does not want to appear disloyal to the most powerful in Democrat in Congress who believes launching impeachment proceedings would be fruitless with the Senate unwilling to convict the President.
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The altruistic gesture, even if it does prove fruitless, is uncharacteristic of the criminal syndicate that launched an underworld enterprise by placing powerful exploits in the hands of others to deploy as they see fit.
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After more than eight hours of fruitless negotiations late into Wednesday night, Republican state senators in Oregon walked out of a session on Thursday over disagreements on HB 2020, a cap and trade climate bill.
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I'm less and less interested in guessing, because I'm more and more aware of how compartmentalized people are, of how flawed and fruitless it is to extrapolate from one chamber of their lives to another.
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Most of the songs that soundtracked my years of teenage angst were explicitly sad in a very specific way; the melodies were melancholic, the lyrics were introspective and imbued with a sense of fruitless longing.
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Our culture already sends women on a fruitless chase for pleasure in an area of their body not as fully primed to provide it as others, so why not add new zones to the list?
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Greece, which clinched a third international bailout deal last year, worth up to 86 billion euros ($93 bln), has made several fruitless attempts over the last 50 years to find big oil and gas reserves.
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The decision marks an escalation of the regulator's role in Latin America's biggest-ever bankruptcy case, as the threat of full-blown intervention hangs over protracted and so far fruitless talks between creditors and shareholders.
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The population gets sicker and sicker and sicker and sicker, the rates get higher to try and catch it, it's a fruitless chase, and ultimately you end up with a very bad pool of risk.
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It is a fruitless endeavor to wonder how precisely Hannah's gotten this job with the amount of work she has or hasn't been doing, but writing for the internet will get you places, I guess.
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To avoid fruitless talks, Macron said he wanted pre-conditions set before any future negotiations, including breakthroughs on removing troops from borders, greater monitoring by international observers and progress on the humanitarian and prisoner situation.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission proposed on Wednesday watered-down measures to help guard European Union banks against future crises, after two years of fruitless talks among the 28 EU states on more ambitious plans.
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After fruitless talks between Trump and congressional leadership, the moderate group was viewed as a last-ditch effort to find a negotiated solution that would avoid an emergency declaration by Trump to build the wall.
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Rubio and Palin were referring to comfort care, a common practice in health care where, should life-saving procedures prove fruitless, the decision is made to focus on reducing pain and suffering of the newborn.
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Government officials from neighboring provinces have held tense, fruitless talks on the causes and liability for the pollution for years, but the atrocious air quality in the capital has added a new sense of urgency.
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Ms. Lankford never filed complaints or pursued refunds, saying that it probably would have been fruitless, and that she was too busy raising her young son on her own and trying to rebuild her life.
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In the eyes of some aides and outside advisers, an entire fruitless month has passed that cannot be recouped, a waste of the most valuable asset a White House has: the President's attention and time.
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He sports a beard, an earring, and a selection of grungy clothes, and at one stage he bleaches his hair yellow-white, the hue of sour milk, in a fruitless attempt to disguise his appearance.
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Popular confusion over whether it's legal to own a machine gun stems largely from high-profile efforts to regulate "assault weapons"—which, as the existence of public machine-gun events illustrates, have been mostly fruitless.
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The European Central Bank placed Carige under special administration at the start of the year after a failed capital raising, but efforts to find a buyer as demanded by regulators have so far proved fruitless.
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However, the most devastating clarity and yet fruitless search for meaning is contained within Cave's stream of consciousness narration; it's here that we're presented with the disjointed externalisation of the inner dialogue we all have.
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And perhaps no European leader is more bruised than President Emmanuel Macron of France, whose fruitless embrace of Mr. Trump, replete with hand holding, hugs and dandruff dusting, has come back to haunt him domestically.
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But knowing all this, I'm going to go out on a limb and do exactly what I've just proved a fruitless endeavor, because like it or not, Vanderpump Rules might actually be the new Friends.
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Surely the answer is going out pants, but searching for this phrase is fruitless; there is no dedicated subsection of a retailer's website like there is for going out tops, no literature on this subject.
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Ottawa, Canada (CNN)In one bizarre, unguarded moment at a private fundraiser in Missouri, Donald Trump showed why months of trade negotiations between Canada, Mexico and the United States have been fitful, frustrating, and fruitless.
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"You will not shout out — not shout out in the middle of testimony," a frustrated Mr. Nadler exclaimed at one point, bringing the gavel down in a fruitless effort to shut down Republican parliamentary objections.
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The resulting frenzy of trying to prove either the obvious known facts or the classified and therefore unknowable facts — two fruitless pursuits — creates so much static that we forget what we are really talking about.
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The researchers prefer federal investment to local subsidies that try to attract individual businesses—an often fruitless effort for smaller communities, as incidents like the downsized Foxconn factory in Wisconsin and Amazon's HQ2 search demonstrate.
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Though the Justice Department has claimed that the House has failed to exhaust all avenues to obtain the information it is seeking, Howell cited Cipollone's letter as proof that any other means would be fruitless.
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"Axios on HBO" last night aired a preview of "A Warning," by the senior administration official who penned a New York Times op-ed that infuriated President Trump and sparked an ultimately fruitless leak investigation.
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Compared with covering James L. Dolan, who has rarely made himself available to discuss anything about his largely fruitless tenure running the Knicks, firing questions at such a receptive, if dripping, owner was a privilege.
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Since responding to digital ads has been so fruitless, meeting people that I may potentially live with IRL — and going on the charm offensive when the right apartment and roommate comes along — has better odds, right?
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It remains unclear how the freeze will resolve: Negotiations have been fruitless so far and the Democratic House majority, empowered by the midterm elections, say they will not give the president the wall money he seeks.
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Just as it would be fruitless to make broad assumptions about humans by focusing on people from one region or one time period, so too does Westworld's wealth bottleneck distort the results of its mysterious experiment.
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Russia seeks to dither in the political arena -- as we have seen in the turbulent but fruitless talks over a ceasefire for Aleppo in the last week -- and then pursues a flat and ferocious military solution.
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Because "Mollie was a creature of habit" and used the same three routes for her run, Mortvedt says the volunteer search for evidence into her disappearance — which has been fruitless so far — has been called off.
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But the effort for a national law protecting queer workers from employer bias has remained fruitless for the past four decades, minus a patchwork of states that have passed anti-discrimination laws to protect LGBTQ citizens.
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For a time, major record labels, artists, and empathetic industry groups resisted change, trying everything from subpoenas to public service announcements in an ultimately fruitless attempt to preserve or at least salvage an outdated business model.
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His previous obedience to it had been totemic of his bid to woo the German establishment and thus sell his reform proposals, so the shift suggests a president downgrading or even ditching that fruitless charm offensive.
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Even worse was that his fruitless job search proved to be a smoking gun helping to prove that the league's owners had colluded to reduce free agents' salaries, in violation of MLB's collective-bargaining agreement (CBA).
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With negotiations fruitless so far, this shutdown could become the longest in American history, surpassing the previous record of 21 days in the '90s, under President Bill Clinton and a Republican-led Congress, according to CNN.
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Though he knew he should have walked into the sunset right then and there, he carried on for five more fruitless days, then picked a meaningless fight with ownership so he'd have an excuse to quit.
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The disappearance of the aircraft en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur ranks among the world's greatest aviation mysteries after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200-million ($157-million) search effort in January.
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So while thousands of refugees have, over the last few months, risked life, lungs, and loved ones trying to make it over to Greece from Turkey, for many of them, it has been a fruitless journey.
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The report said they were made when the UK's then-foreign minister, Boris Johnson, went to the White House in a fruitless bid to convince Trump to stay with the deal, which was negotiated by Obama.
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While there's no need to go on an, ahem, fruitless juice cleanse, if you've been laboring under the delusion that small batch bourbon and salted caramels are actual food groups — this week could bring a reckoning.
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Ogg said attorneys have told her family it would be fruitless to take legal action against Remington, because of a Texas law requiring product liability cases to be brought within 15 years of the product's sale.
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"Koenig has said ... that the Single Resolution Board is following the (Banco Popular) procedure with particular attention with a view to a possible intervention," the EU official said, adding the bank's merger bid "may be fruitless".
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Christopher Ruddy, who runs the conservative website Newsmax and who looked into allegations around the death of the Clinton White House aide Vincent W. Foster Jr., said he thought this was a fruitless line of attack.
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GE's disclosure of the charges made the practice of figuring out how the company's many segments — aerospace, health care, construction and oil and gas, to name a few — are performing fruitless, the "Mad Money" host argued.
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Mr. Cohen's 2003 interview with the Green Party candidate Ralph Nader, ramping up for yet another fruitless presidential run, is a rare interview in which the subject doesn't embarrass himself with hypocrisy but with mere silliness.
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And asked by CNN after the Mueller hearing if she's still concerned that the GOP-led Senate would acquit the President, making impeachment fruitless, she claimed she was "never" concerned about what the Senate would do.
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In the past, she has said that moving forward with impeachment in the House would be fruitless since two-thirds of the GOP-led Senate is highly unlikely to convict him and remove him from office.
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Except for a convention in the mid-1960s initiated by the Legislature — a fruitless exercise, since its proposals were ultimately shot down at the ballot box — no assemblage of this kind has been held since 1938.
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There have been some attempts by other OPEC members to mediate between the Saudis and Russians but so far they seem fruitless and sources say it is hard for both sides to reach a compromise now.
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After various fruitless endeavors — singing, doing pranks with his siblings — he turned to A.S.M.R. "I thought it would be easy, and fun — it was summer break and I was bored," said Owen, who is home-schooled.
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But after years of fruitless attempts to end the killing and forge a comprehensive political solution that would replace Mr. Assad with a more inclusive government, it may be the only way to stop the bloodshed.
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Focusing on closing unjustified loopholes provides a popular and meaningful option of talking about taxes in a way that connects to average Americans without being pulled into a likely fruitless partisan debate over broad tax reform.
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The decision to engage Ocean Infinity came after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200-million ($159 million) search across a 3703,000 square-kilometre (46,332 square mile) expanse of the Indian Ocean last year.
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The speaker since 2011, Boehner was familiar with how a small but determined group of very conservative House members had prompted a number of showdowns over the debt limit, cutting spending and a fruitless government shutdown.
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Republicans have argued that Democrats' efforts to obtain grand jury material in Mueller's report is fruitless and that Barr is legally prohibited from doing so under Justice Department guidelines and judicial restrictions on releasing such information.
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Yet, despite a nearly fruitless record deal and the temporal pressures of the industry, the 24-year-old Compton native is at ease, peaceful even, when he walks into the lobby of the Sunset Tower Hotel.
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The advantage to using them is that they're cheaper— sometimes they even work on a volunteer basis — and they can go directly to people's houses, saving patients a costly and sometimes fruitless trip to the doctor.
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Despite the plethora of video conferencing services — Google Hangouts, BlueJeans, Highfive, Skype, FaceTime, and dozens more — the first five minutes of every meeting tends to be a series of fruitless attempts to get everyone's audio working correctly.
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However, Bolivia aspires to have a train line and port under its own control, and Morales in 2012 halted cross-border discussions he saw as fruitless in favor of seeking a legal ruling to bolster his case.
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By day 22, negotiations were still fruitless, making this shutdown the longest in American history, surpassing the previous record of 21 days in the '90s, under President Bill Clinton and a Republican-led Congress, according to CNN.
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By day 22, negotiations were still fruitless, making this shutdown the longest in American history, surpassing the previous record of 21 days in the '90s, under President Bill Clinton and a Republican-led Congress, according to CNN.
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MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's two main political parties held fruitless talks to form a new government on Tuesday and acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said a new election - the third in less than a year - may be necessary.
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In the latest of its (likely fruitless) attemptsto govern the seething mob that comprises its user base, Twitter rolled out a change in how it oversees the publication of what it euphemistically referred to as 'intimate media.
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After two years of fruitless talks, the European Commission presented a new proposal earlier in October that introduces the scheme more gradually than initially planned, allowing time to reduce existing risks in banks across the euro area.
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While Montreal has been unseated by upstart Florida atop the Atlantic Division, Philadelphia's good feelings following an 20-20-21.63 run into the Christmas break have since soured after a fruitless three-game road trip through California.
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Simply by their mere existence, Taylor stands out as a rejection of this fruitless binary — a one-character expression of the idea that some of the systems we've come to rely upon were rotten to begin with.
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PYEONGCHANG (Reuters) - Skiing against Mikael Kingsbury has proved a fruitless "cat and mouse game" for his rivals in recent years but the Canadian moguls sensation will be "beatable" at the Winter Olympics, according to Australia's Matt Graham.
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That was why, in 22.5, a handful of Republican senators, including Marco Rubio, who is running third in the primary contest, joined a bipartisan, and ultimately fruitless, effort to legalise the status of millions of illegal immigrants.
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Entering Sylvania is like peeking into a digital rabbit hole where nothing bad ever happens; where no one ever gets trolled online, sexually harassed, or spends fruitless hours waiting for a Nigerian bank transfer that never arrives.
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What makes Barry both so fun and so difficult to watch is that it takes the tired antihero trope and tosses it into a blender with the self-absorption and glossy, often fruitless dreams of Hollywood hopefuls.
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Bessner: Both Sanders and Warren have expressed skepticism over military intervention, particularly military intervention in the Middle East and Central Asia, two regions in which the United States has been bogged down in fruitless wars for decades.
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But while "Private Life" has funny and heartfelt insights (as well as some potentially useful information) on modern technologically assisted reproduction and its discontents, the movie is not only or even primarily about fruitless efforts to multiply.
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But instead of desperately needed unity, we have two leaders and their surrogates engaged in a fruitless back and forth over who is historically responsible, who owes how much money, and who got us into this mess.
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A write-in campaign, they suggested, would prove fruitless and perhaps help the Democrats, while a move to block or expel Mr. Moore would further poison the relationship between the Republican Party's leaders and its populist wing.
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"To this end, it is imperative that the United Nations and its member states join the Iranian people in demanding that the government of the United States abandon its malign and fruitless approach against Iran," Zarif wrote.
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Panicked workers, having absorbed America's "educational gospel," believe the only way to ascend into the middle class is to engage in "credentialing," returning again and again to school in an often fruitless quest to find stable work.
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Bolivia aspires to have a corridor including a train line and port under its own control, and Morales in 2012 halted discussions he saw as fruitless in favor of seeking a legal ruling to bolster his case.
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Rajoy's center-right People's Party (PP) won most votes in two inconclusive general elections in December and June but it fell well short of a majority, leading to months of fruitless political negotiations to form a coalition.
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Asked why he removed Chester, whose duties included running the Australian part of the fruitless search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, Turnbull said his cabinet had "to take into account matters of geography", but did not elaborate.
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"I will wait a few days, and then I will evaluate how to proceed to break the deadlock," he told reporters at the end of two days of fruitless talks aimed at overcoming last month's inconclusive national election.
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The June ballot followed an equally inconclusive one in December, also won by the PP and since when parties across the political spectrum have held a series of so far fruitless negotiations to form a workable coalition government.
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Since then the British government has hosted rounds of fruitless talks between the two parties, covering issues ranging from the rights of speakers of the Irish language to the investigation of alleged past abuses by the security services.
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That dynamic was underscored when Trump told CBS in an interview last week that he was open to renegotiating NAFTA — but warned that he was willing to abrogate the pact if talks between Canada and Mexico proved fruitless.
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In this community, black residents are able to adjust their blackness—in one case, "to a still very serious 7.6"—though such abilities ultimately prove fruitless, because the America of Adjei-Brenyah's telling does not reward the powerless.
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The conservative Rajoy was sworn in before King Felipe at Zarzuela Palace near Madrid after winning a parliamentary confidence vote on Saturday, giving Spain a fully-functioning government once more after two inconclusive elections and fruitless coalition talks.
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Employees spend their shifts interrupting strangers with surveys and sales pitches, or fielding calls from irate customers who've just spent fruitless hours troubleshooting on Google and are now ready to yell at the first real human they encounter.
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While it's fruitless to predict what might favorite game might ultimately be, given how convinced I was nothing would come close to Nier: Automata just a few months ago, it's easily to imagine Battlegrounds will be in contention.
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Some opponents of closing these gaps in our laws will continue to argue that dangerous people will obtain guns in our country no matter what, and therefore that taking steps to make it harder for them is fruitless.
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Investors have learned to become more skeptical of the upbeat tone from the Trump administration after a fruitless battle of 18 months, but given the popularity of algorithmic trading, the market has become highly sensitive to every headline.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: Recently, during one of my many fruitless trips to the box office for "Hamilton" tickets, I waited patiently as experts in the line suggested Chicago (the city) or other future productions even farther away.
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But every morning he would get up, eat breakfast, brusquely greet his model, and engage once again, nearly blind and stewing with resentment, in a solitary, pointless, and fruitless pursuit of beauty — a 20th-century figure despite himself.
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Her trajectory tells the story of how a true believer in democracy can be defeated not by force of law but through exhaustion: a collapse of any faith in working through the system after years of fruitless struggle.
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During Mr. Foley's captivity, his family said it experienced frustrating and fruitless attempts to work with the Obama administration and were instrumental in that administration establishing a new hostage recovery protocol involving families whose relatives were kidnapped abroad.
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But their purpose is clear: to show the anti-abortion voting bloc that conservative lawmakers are willing to do anything — including waging expensive and most likely fruitless legal battles — to keep women from exercising their right to abortion.
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"This was widely expected by the investment community, including ourselves, and amounts to a further step in the unwinding of Biogen's expensive, painful and ultimately fruitless investment in Alzheimer's disease drug development," SVB Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges said.
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"This was widely expected by the investment community, including ourselves, and amounts to a further step in the unwinding of Biogen's expensive, painful and ultimately fruitless investment in Alzheimer's disease drug development," SVB Leerink analyst Geoffrey Porges said.
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The political stability in Portugal contrasts with the uncertainty in neighboring Spain, where Pedro Sánchez, the caretaker Socialist prime minister, faces a repeat election in November after months of fruitless negotiations to get voted into office by Parliament.
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Further, after Shell's bumbling and ultimately fruitless $7 billion attempt to find oil, companies have been abandoning old leases right and left, and, whatever their ambitions elsewhere, do not seem to be seeking new ones in the Arctic.
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Bhasin said that the impulse to "bracket" makes sense from a consumer perspective: it saves the shopper a potentially fruitless trip to a brick-and-mortar location, while allowing them to benefit from a "dressing room" experience nonetheless.
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The decision marked a breakthrough after weeks of fruitless negotiations and warnings by EU foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell that the bloc risked becoming irrelevant if it could not act, potentially leaving Libya's fate to Turkey and Russia.
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More determined enforcement of existing WTO obligations would be a start, but long experience shows that unilateral efforts to thwart subsidization and dumping, let along currency manipulation and intellectual property theft, programs are time consuming and frequently fruitless.
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Infusing a well-known story with suspense, "Countdown to Pearl Harbor" reconstructs the military's glaring errors of omission, the secret American effort to intercept Japan's encrypted communication and the fruitless 11th-hour diplomatic negotiations between Tokyo and Washington.
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Following the fruitless meeting in Seoul, here are five steps U.S. and Korean trade officials should take to get the bilateral trade relationship back on track: KORUS has been the economic cornerstone of a strong U.S.-Korea alliance.
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The SAP contract has already been mentioned by lawmakers looking into mismanagement at the water department, as well as in an Auditor-General report last year that concluded the ministry had been guilty of wasteful and fruitless spending.
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Over and over again, Democrats proved themselves to be the party of "Resist," choosing to launch fruitless investigations to harass a president they don't like instead of taking the lead to address real issues facing the country's citizens.
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Some recent (and so far fruitless) attempts include the Piano District, a contender for a slice of the South Bronx waterfront; GoCaGa, a proposed marriage of Gowanus and Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn; and BoHo, the Bowery below Houston Street.
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But even if that made sense as anything other than a fruitless effort to placate Mr Trump, it would not alter Mr Bannon's damning characterisation of a meeting that the Trump team has sought to dismiss as a "nothingburger".
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"I am more than skeptical towards those who say that the future of Europe lies in further enlargement, when we can't find agreement between 28 nations," Macron said as he left fruitless all-night negotiations in Brussels on Monday.
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After about two months, the talks between Greece and its creditors on the first Greek program review are lagging, as demonstrated by the latest, fruitless round of negotiations that provisionally ended on Tuesday and will resume after April 22022.
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission requirement would ensure that certain employers submit pay data that would place massive and unnecessary burdens on smaller employers and waste federal resources on fruitless "fishing expeditions" based on incomplete and misleading information.
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Don, dogged by insecurities honed while growing up poor, is married to Claire, a friendless writer from New York whose production has trailed off and whose resentment over her fruitless career and domestic responsibilities has mounted against her husband.
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Swept up in a wave of political correctness and the fallout from the Russia investigation, many of the largest online platforms have embarked upon a fruitless adventure in censorship that can only further divide rather than unite the nation.
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The injury cost Cousins his first career trip to the playoffs after six and a half fruitless seasons with the Sacramento Kings and also led to him signing a one-year, $5.3 million contract with the Warriors in July.
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It's a process that sounds so freakin' cool on paper, and while the individual moments were undeniably satisfying, they often proved to be a brief oasis in a larger desert of frustration, only coming after hours of fruitless investment.
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The Red Bulls contented themselves with a Gonzalo Veron penalty kick in the 70th minute to equalize and with a series of digs about their rival's long — and to date fruitless — search for a stadium to call their own.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia said on Wednesday it was not ruling out a future underwater search for a missing Malaysia Airlines passenger jet as families of those on board criticised the decision to suspend the hunt after three fruitless years.
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She made it a top priority to end the long-running ethnic insurgencies that have torn the country apart, but her anemic peace effort has proved fruitless so far, and fighting between government forces and ethnic groups has increased.
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This year, after his fruitless declarations of innocence from behind bars, prosecutors from the same office that sent him away for life in 215 decided that he was innocent and asked a judge to grant him a new trial.
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Companies that handle the cleaning, catering and maintenance for these aircraft are hurting, while flights for every purpose from sky-diving to wildlife monitoring are now either forbidden or require going through an onerous, and often fruitless, approval process.
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After the fruitless night I spent shivering on the mountaintop in Abisko, it felt luxurious to look for the lights from inside a SkyNest, one of two cozy, lemming-shaped cabins with transparent walls and ceilings in rural Kurravaara.
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Barr, who's been on the job since February, is still something of an enigma as attorney general, which has made the speculation over what he might do with the Mueller report even more intense — and probably a bit fruitless.
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"I am more than skeptical toward those who say that the future of Europe lies in further enlargement, when we can't find agreement between 28 nations," Macron said as he left fruitless all-night negotiations in Brussels on Monday.
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And learning details from the catalog about his life, like the tale of him attending a costume party dressed as an angel with wings, a pink flannel nightie and a halo, makes a definitive understanding of this work fruitless.
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It's oftentimes fruitless as he simply can't remember, and also chooses not to remember because — as we learn about dimensions — you can suppress the memories of your new host body (that's what Prairie does with Nina for most of the season).
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" On social media, the artist said that he ultimately resorted to legal action after more than a year of "fruitless negotiation" with the company, which he said "only engaged in arrogant gestures to trivialize their guilt and dismiss the matter.
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A labourer for a company setting up the trackworks for an extension of the Delhi Metro, he told me he first went to a bank branch to deposit cash but left in frustration after a couple of hours of fruitless waiting.
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The United Nations has sponsored eight rounds of fruitless peace talks in Geneva since the war began in 2011, a conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands and driven millions from their homes while dragging in world and regional powers.
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SYDNEY/KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Australia's main scientific agency said on Wednesday it believed with "unprecedented precision and certainty" that a missing Malaysia Airlines aircraft crashed into the sea northeast of an area scoured in a fruitless two-year underwater search.
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Meanwhile, the establishment Democrats have done their part to continue playing the unpopular role of partisan politicians by refusing to do much other than pursue still-fruitless investigations of the administration and generally hoping to block all legislation and nominations.
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Maloney said that competitors like Postmates and Uber Eats, along with their venture-capital backers, have "wasted" billions of dollars on promotions in fruitless attempts to steal diners from GrubHub, currently the largest online food delivery platform in the United States.
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WASHINGTON, April 15 (Reuters) - Spain, stuck in months of fruitless coalition talks among its fractious political parties, needs to take additional measures to cut its budget deficit to avoid overshooting current targets, a senior International Monetary Fund official said on Friday.
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Some political and legal observers speculated that the White House would use executive privilege to prevent him from doing so, but Trump instead took the path of least resistance, forestalling what would have been a bruising—and potentially fruitless—legal battle.
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He made some fruitless demos, forgot about them, hit the studio with Animal Collective, toured with them for two years, and eventually dug up the demos after a casual conversation with bandmate Josh Dibb, who performs under the name Deakin.
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The opposition delegation, which has links to the Free Syrian Army but not with Islamic State or al Qaeda-linked groups, is in Geneva this week to revive the issue of prisoner releases, sidelined during months of fruitless peace talks.
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With his wife, a marketing employee at the University of Toronto, he now rents a one-bedroom apartment and plans to move to Quebec City after a fruitless search for a home large enough for his family within their budget.
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It also includes people who want to work but are not job hunting, like a former steelworker who, after years of fruitless searching, has given up looking but would take a job if he could find one at an acceptable wage.
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WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korean state media acknowledged a fruitless summit between its leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump for the first time on Friday, saying people were blaming the United States for the lack of an agreement.
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To stay out of a fruitless (if not counterproductive) cat-and-mouse game, it's often useful for parents to take a two-pronged approach, articulating high expectations in one breath and acknowledging the limits of their power in the next.
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In establishing the 2628 obligations under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the EPA finally passed a major RFS milestone that will allow moving beyond the fruitless and acrimonious debate between big corn and big oil that have plagued RFS policy.
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The theories so farThe lack of answers even as more information comes to light, combined with the fruitless searches, means all that&aposs left are theories of what might have happened to the flight — and some are more plausible than others.
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Take Nesbit (Austin Amelio), who tends to place unwise bets, for a few dollars, on fruitless daily activities; Plummer (Temple Baker), who is just off the pace whenever jokes are flying about; or Willoughby (Wyatt Russell), the in-house hippie.
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The lack of substance and fruitless working-level talks set up the failure in Hanoi, which the Americans blamed on what they said were excessive North Korean demands for sanctions relief in exchange for dismantling an aging nuclear facility in Yongbyon.
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May, who said on Friday that she hoped to get further assurances about her plan from European Union leaders despite a fruitless trip to Brussels, was likely to be faced with opposing demands from ministers next week, the newspaper said.
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It sent alarm bells ringing in Rome and Brussels, which both want to avert the possibility of a failing Italian economy that could weigh down the euro zone, but have struggled to find a solution after almost a year of fruitless discussions.
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MINSK/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said that de-escalation zones proposed by his ally Russia were a chance for rebels to "reconcile" with Damascus and drive out Islamist militants, but vowed to fight on calling U.N.-led peace talks fruitless.
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Though Kavanaugh&aposs confirmation remains uncertain because of Republicans&apos razor-thin 51-49 majority in the Senate, the moderates&apos early reactions indicate that millions of dollars in spending by liberal groups to sway key senators against Kavanaugh may ultimately prove fruitless.
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Read More: The Black Market Dealers Selling Tactical Surveillance Equipment Online Geoffrey Vaughan, a Toronto-based information security researcher who focuses on IMSI catcher detection, agreed that speculating whether the IMSI catcher came from Russia or China is bound to be fruitless.
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When one of these affectionate eaters forcefully smooches a coral, the lip slobber likely has a dual function: The snotty barrier makes much of the polyp's aggravated stinging fruitless, and it helps make a suction-producing seal on the coral's own lubricated exterior.
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So here we are, post-Crimes of Grindelwald, two movies into the Fantastic Beasts franchise – two movies of wondering who exactly tf Credence Barebone is and why we're supposed to care about him (beyond valiant and not-fruitless efforts of Ezra Miller).
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Because negotiations over funding the border wall have been fruitless so far, this shutdown could become the longest in American history, surpassing the previous record of 21 days in the '90s, under President Bill Clinton and a Republican-led Congress, according to CNN.
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After a fruitless night scouring the disaster site, sniffer dogs helped locate a first group of people who were buried in a small room, its roof of reinforced concrete protecting them from the heavy weight of snow that had entombed the hotel.
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I carried an M-4 because I was an infantryman in a combat zone fighting a brutal and fruitless war of occupation, and I had to be ready to fire rounds into human targets in an instant, lest they shoot me first.
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After eight years of mostly fruitless searching that took him to Germany and Toronto among other places, Shimkovitz found the man born Yaw Atta-Owuse, now 56, living back in Ghana, understandably unaware that his music had become an object of worldwide fascination.
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She described her first hospital birth as a "cascade of interventions," beginning with 20 hours of labor, followed by contraction-inducing Pitocin and an epidural, then three hours of fruitless pushing that culminated in a vacuum-assisted delivery of a healthy baby girl.
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Republicans told CNN they now see no reason why they should participate in or help with the Democratic investigation that they believe is a fruitless exercise and a continuation of the partisan battle that engulfed the committee for the past 18 months.
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But, he added, a number of politicians still play into Russia's hands by questioning insistent but so far fruitless efforts to join NATO and by presenting the West as a threat to Georgia's traditional values, a theme that meshes with Moscow's agenda.
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Having our reporters, photographers and videographers on the ground with them enables us to give our readers a full, accurate sense of who these migrants are, and what is driving them to abandon their homes to risk such a difficult, potentially fruitless, journey.
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To those who say he is trying his hand at too many things at the same time, he responds that he is not scared of fully stopping a project if he feels like it will start eating itself up and be fruitless.
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There was the former factory worker thumbing her Bible looking for hope amid a fruitless job search; the recent college graduate considering his options in a barren job market; the Florida homeowner praying a government stimulus check could save him from foreclosure.
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My progressive efforts to get him to stop kicking me off the bed — gently shaking him awake, picking up his feet and moving them, crawling to the other side of the bed, and a not-so-gentle retaliatory kick — are all fruitless.
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And because that faction has successfully rendered all political fights — even fights over basic facts — as vicious, zero-sum partisan struggles, another large faction of the country has simply tuned out, coming to regard politics and public life generally as corrupt and fruitless.
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Like other veterans of those fruitless negotiations, in both Democratic and Republican administrations, Mr. Indyk watched the early days of Mr. Trump's diplomacy with fascination and even muted hope — that this most undiplomatic of presidents might achieve a breakthrough where they had failed.
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The tomatoes and the banana pepper plants both thrived, but the eggplant yielded only three smallish fruits; my four corn plants gave us a total of five scrawny ears, and the cantaloupe vine just grows and grows and sits there, fruitless, taunting me.
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The blue and white tarpaulin tents have doubled, Atmeh says, and rubbish is strewn along a shallow ditch running through the camp, where boys play football and men sit on plastic chairs to pass the time, sometimes going out on fruitless job hunts.
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The move follows a report suggesting that Trump, who held a series of unprecedented but largely fruitless summits with North Korea leader Kim Jong Un aimed at persuading Kim to give up his nuclear weapons, could be losing interest in the efforts.
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His ruling followed a six-day trial at which he took testimony on the sustained but fruitless efforts by the doctors to get admitting privileges; evidence on this point takes up 14 of the 63 pages of his opinion, issued in April 2017.
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After two hours of fruitless negotiations with the Dallas gunman, Brown asked senior officers to "use their imaginations" to devise a strategy to disable the shooter, later identified as Micah Xavier Johnson, 25, a former U.S. Army Reserve soldier who authorities said embraced black nationalism.
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Three, the media had a weeklong fight over whether Facebook intentionally misled them about the extent to which people had an interest in watching video, prompting publishers to lay off their writers in an ultimately fruitless "pivot to video" that impoverished journalists and journalism.
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Perhaps it seems like a fruitless, tilting-at-windmills kind of situation (he has just six followers at the time I write this, and one of them is me), but his reasoning is sincere and totally valid even if his ask is a bit unusual.
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The New Wave that swept French cinema in the late 1950s, into which Malle induced her after some fruitless forays into film, allowed her to slip the thrall of costume designers complaining about the bags under her eyes and her lack of fashionable beauty.
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Trips to the doctor were fruitless (there's only so much greasy, suffocating liquid paraffin a girl can slather herself in) and the thought of switching up my skin-care routine, after I'd pretty much perfected it for my oily complexion, felt like a chore.
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With space on my hard drive running out, and years of fruitless attempts at organizing behind me, I was on the verge of just erasing all these old pictures and forgetting everything from before the time when auto-photo uploads became commonplace on smartphones.
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In 2100, he spent 210 days living alone on Rockall, the pillar of granite rock sticking out of the Atlantic a couple of hundred miles west of the Hebrides, in a self-directed (and largely fruitless) attempt to assert Britain's territorial claim to the islet.
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" The news of her grave illness makes the papers, and the displaced persons' crowd, which has nothing to occupy it but the fruitless wait for the death of Bolshevism, decides to assemble at Teffi's bedside: "From morning until night my room was crowded with people.
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In a thus-far fruitless effort to fulfill the board's wish that the statue not be "stuck in someone's attic," the mayor's office has been scouring the local landscape for someone, anyone, willing to publicly display a 30-inch bust of a vilified chief justice.
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There have been so many baffling moments in this presidency that it would seem fruitless to single out one moment as more baffling than the rest; it is as if the country is in a constant fugue state, losing its grasp on what it is.
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The move comes after years of fruitless negotiations with other automakers regarding various permutations of the autonomous car concept, several of which broke down over disagreements over who would control the data produced by the vehicles, according to sources who spoke to the Times.
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Last year's near-unprecedented playoff run, in which he dissected opponents with a reservoir of step backs, side-step threes, and furiously technical footwork that made defending him in space feel like one of the more fruitless duties in basketball, helped bring us here.
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Not only did Jesus and the prophets of Israel vehemently denounce those who prayed devoutly while neglecting the poor and oppressed, but Muhammad, Confucius, Mencius, Mahavira, the Buddha and Gandhi all insisted that personal piety was fruitless unless one worked tirelessly to relieve human suffering.
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It's a disorienting, compelling sequence — like the operators of the plant, we don't know what has just happened, and we helplessly follow along as they blunder through the flaming wreckage on fruitless tasks, absorbing tremendous doses of radiation that will kill them within weeks.
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After months of fruitless negotiations over helping to get legal status for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — something President Trump and Speaker Paul Ryan have both claimed to want — they seem to have had enough.
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Republican lawmakers announced plans for an investigative hearing, and both accusers have said repeatedly that they are willing to testify publicly as part of a bipartisan process, but Democratic lawmakers have balked, seeing such a hearing as a fruitless exercise prone to partisan grandstanding.
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After several fruitless efforts at overhauling the nation's immigration laws, Democrats simply do not trust Republicans, who control Congress and the White House, to follow through on pledges to protect hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants from deportation unless forced to do so.
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Over the past five months, the citizens of South Korea have impeached a president, held democratic elections to replace her and participated in tireless (if also, ultimately, fruitless) protests against the installation of the United States military's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile defense system.
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The tension demonstrated the challenges that remain for Russia, the Syrian government's most powerful backer, as the Russian government tries to show its approach can accomplish more than the largely fruitless efforts led in past years by the United States and the United Nations.
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Speaking at the Quirinal Palace on Monday night after a third, and apparently final, round of fruitless consultations with party leaders, the mild-mannered Mr. Mattarella seemed a bit vexed as he called the situation "anomalous" and admonished the politicians for their lack of progress.
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However the wrangling in Parliament comes out in the coming days, most analysts believe that an election is inevitable in the near future after years of stalemate over Brexit, and is probably the only way to break the cycle of endless and fruitless debate.
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Niki Kapsambelis's "The Inheritance" combines a history of Alzheimer's — its first discovery, the challenges in diagnosing it and the thus-far fruitless efforts to treat it — with the story of the DeMoes, who have dedicated themselves to the scientific cause of combating the disease.
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