To state party leaders and government officials it has a been frustrating exercise in irrelevance, the political equivalent of being benched during the nation's political main event.

This may occasionally be a frustrating exercise.

Reykir imagined that asking directions would have been, at best, a frustrating exercise in pantomime.

It was a grueling and often frustrating exercise that sometimes left Bek more confused than when he started.

Typing punctuation marks in Cangjie thus becomes a frustrating exercise in either memorization or pick-and-peck.

Many taxpayers say the skills of the staff at the revenue service lag its ambitions, and that the agency can make doing the right thing a frustrating exercise.

But until two brave individuals showed up and took on the city bureaucracy, it seemed a frustrating and futile exercise.

Homework was a frustrating exercise and the girl's grades reflected her difficulties.

He found it a frustrating exercise.

Development has encroached onto government land, and trying to spot the sea is a frustrating exercise along many parts of the beach road.