Word: fruitlessness
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Stanley called the present situation similar to the series of events that led to the Vietnam war, adding that American intervention in the Philippines would inevitably lead to another long and fruitless Asian guerrilla...
...course, what is our defense budget for, or to put it another way, what defines the American national interest and what defines national security. To try to effect defense budget cuts without re-ordering U.S. foreign policy and redefining these principles is, according to Ravenal, both a fruitless and dishonest task. He tells us that the defense budget can be reduced by 50 per cent if we begin to view American national interests in neo-isolationist terms. And he also tells us that if we work within these terms, we won't have any further need of arms limitations talks...
...flamboyant style, his volatile outbursts on and off the court and his fruitless search for, as he put it, a player who will "run through walls" for the good of the team, finally cost...
Wage contracts affecting about 1.5 million workers expired at the end of the year, and in some major industries negotiations have been fruitless. Some of the biggest companies involved are strongholds of clandestine unions, which have been gaining strength and are sympathetic to Spain's equally illegal socialist and Communist parties. Last month the clandestine unions staged a general strike that idled more than 75,000 workers for two days...
...when the train was seized, onto the tracks. Later, the body of a passenger was tossed out. After nightfall, 14 of the 50-odd hostages managed to run to safety from the rear of the train. The kidnapers stood firm. On the third day of the siege, after a fruitless round of negotiations, another passenger, wearing a yellow shirt and a red tie, was brought to a door of the train. He was shot fatally in the neck and flung onto the railroad bed. Soldiers standing a few hundred yards away openly wept at the cruel sight...