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re·sult

(rĭ-zŭlt′)

intr.v. re·sult·ed, re·sult·ing, re·sults

1. To happen as a consequence: damage that resulted from the storm; charges that resulted from the investigation. See Synonyms at follow.

2. To end in a particular way: Their profligate lifestyle resulted in bankruptcy.

a. Something that follows naturally from a particular action, operation, or course; a consequence or outcome. See Synonyms at effect.

b. results Favorable or desired outcomes: a new approach that got results.

2. Mathematics The quantity or expression obtained by calculation.

[Middle English resulten, from Medieval Latin resultāre, from Latin, to leap back, frequentative of resilīre : re-, re- + salīre, to leap; see sel- in Indo-European roots.]

re·sult′ful adj.

re·sult′ful·ness n.

re·sult′less adj.

resultless

(rɪˈzʌltləs)

adj

lacking in results or significant effects

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Talking to PTV, Imran Khan urged for political will to implement the recommendations of APC, saying that conferences which were held in previous regime were remained resultless.

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If he was wrong about democracy, if the war went on in the resultless way it had gone for two years--if these dead had died in vain--then he and every other American were surely of all men most miserable.