Thus, there is no point in waiting for miracles.

Now it is pointless to generate hostility.

Of course, it is pointless at this stage to re examine that tragic folly.

It is futile for the Bush administration to deny it.

Here are ten reasons why it doesn t pay to diagnose the Chinese economy by drawing inferences from the experiences of others

It is not much good looking to the European Union for self confident and concerted political initiative on the international stage.

The author claims that it would have been futile to lodge an amparo in his case.

The history of ideas has its logic, reason, and folly, its unconscious and its trajectory. It is both futile and dangerous to deny any of them.

We need to confront the next and potentially much bigger biomass boondoggle.

Perhaps it is futile to look for the single cause without which the financial system would not have blown up in our faces.

Real reductions in carbon emissions will occur only when better technology makes it worthwhile for individuals and businesses to change their behavior.

Ms. Chung noted that the working group had discussed its future mandate extensively at its sixth session and suggested that it was not useful to continue discussing it this year.

The Working Group had concluded that, however desirable a disclosure obligation might be from the standpoint of transparency, it was simply not feasible to provide for it in the draft convention.

She believed it would be helpful to find ways to deliver more effective cooperation along the lines of this rough demarcation.

In Canada, it is not feasible to measure housing need on the basis of waiting lists.

Without security, and without effective protection for the civilian population, it would be futile and unrealistic to hope for a successful outcome to the peace process and for the holding of elections.

So, although it is common today in Russia to blame Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin for the collapse of the USSR, it is both useless and unfair to do so.

Indeed it is militarily inefficient to use weapons where there is a high likelihood they will not reach the desired target.

And because we are living in a world of accelerating change, it is useless to think that our goal must be to fight a rearguard defense of what we have and what we stand for.

This can succeed only with sustained and committed support, and I believe it would be useful if a Member State would identify itself as a lead donor for this activity.

So, for Hamas as well as for America, the West, and Israel, it is futile to look back in anger and frustration.

Meaningful public engagement with the court requires an underlying environment that fosters not punishes the free expression of ideas.

And in this way, you can take the guesswork out of policy making by knowing what works, what doesn't work and why.

Thus, international organizations may find it increasingly useful to review which of their tasks could be best contracted out to global public private partnerships.46

As its population begins to shrink, it may even be worthwhile to shut down unviable cities and consolidate.

However, lodging an amparo application would have been futile because, according to the practice of the Constitutional Court, the right to review is not violated when it is the court of appeal that hands down the first conviction.

It appears feasible to phase out a large proportion (more than 85 ) of MB before 2010, given the large reductions achieved already (see Annex 4 for details).

It appears feasible to phase out a large proportion (more than 85 ) of MB before 2010, given the large reductions achieved already (see Annex 4 for details).

It would be beneficial if the two Governments built on steps taken in recent months regarding the issue and gave priority attention to developing and implementing a plan that would facilitate an early resolution of the matter.

Despite these problems, prosecuting genocide might be worthwhile if it were the only way to hold mass murderers accountable.

Its calls for more reforms, its belief in Taiwan, and the urgency of its appeal to defend the island against undue influence from China have now captured the allegiance of a small majority of the population.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and it seems pointless to work to strengthen the Democratic links of the chain of fiscal advice when the Republican links are not just weak but absent.

Given the commonality of detecting and analysing potential money laundering activities and potential terrorist financing activities, it is more effective for major organizations that have been leading efforts to combat money laundering also to address the issue of terrorist financing.

4.6 The State party considers that in cases of very minor offences the establishment of a review procedure in a higher court is self defeating, in view of the cost incurred and the unnecessary prolongation of proceedings.

4. Determines that it is feasible to develop an international instrument to enable States to identify and trace, in a timely and reliable manner, illicit small arms and light weapons

They argue, further, that it is too complicated to respect individuals preferences, too difficult to tell them how their data is being used, and pointless to treat them as individuals.

The basic idea of humanism is the improvable quality of life that we can do good things, that there are things worth doing because they're good things to do, and that clear eyed empiricism can help us figure out how to do them.

In my opinion, it is superfluous to ask the Palestinians to recognize the nationhood of a people with thousands of years of history and a state that maintains diplomatic relations with 150 countries around the world.

I believe and I think it was the representative of Pakistan, Mr. Khan, who proposed this earlier that it might be worthwhile for the Chairman to hold informal consultations on how to promote this vision of the First Committee as an adjunct to other forums.

Some workers whose productivity was too low to cover their cost will now be hired, as firms will find it worthwhile to expand output above the level resulting from the increased working time itself by investing more capital and hiring more workers.

But it does not help to solve major financial problems, and those that it does address (short term, overnight financing) could be dealt with more directly, with a more focused tax, better rules governing those transactions, and improved prudential regulation.

That is an initiative that needs the meaningful support of the international community, especially given that it takes short term responses into consideration, whilst preventing and mitigating future vulnerabilities.

Considering the lessons learned in the past year, we can state that it will be futile and useless to try to reform a main organ of the United Nations without a shared diagnosis of its needs, bottlenecks and real capacity to fulfil its most sensitive tasks.

After the financial crisis erupted with full force in 2008, former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker claimed that the only worthwhile financial innovation in recent decades was the ATM.

It may be worth the effort to explore the possibility of establishing common subregional trading platforms under which local exchanges join forces to develop a trading and clearing system that allows investors to trade securities on a regional basis.