It is possible that much of this additional spending would prove fruitless.

He had received several telegrams, indicating which avenues of enquiry would prove fruitless.

Kind Providence had willed that her search should not prove fruitless.

She entreats Maurice to discontinue a search which must prove fruitless.

Had this been their plan, their errand would have been likely to prove fruitless.

It seems evident from that action that negotiating with the Lords themselves will prove fruitless.

Do thou, therefore name some boon so that all this labour of thine may not prove fruitless.

Or would all his labor prove fruitless?

And Suffolk, knowing his wilfulness, and that all remonstrance would prove fruitless, retraced his steps with him.

Reuters reported on Thursday that the company could soon file for bankruptcy if the restructuring talks prove fruitless.

Efforts to get some of his dramas accepted by the Leipzig and Dresden theatres continued to prove fruitless.

But it was asphyxia, it was immediate death, if the result of this last attempt should prove fruitless.

It did not prove fruitless.

Beholding his arrowy showers prove fruitless, Ashvatthama hurled at him a long dart blazing like a flame of fire.

He was at no pains to conceal the intense disappointment which he would experience, were his errand to prove fruitless.

Though he had been exerting himself to obtain their pardon, he knew too well that his efforts might prove fruitless.