Now it is pointless to generate hostility.

Thus, there is no point in waiting for miracles.

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

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

It is futile for the Bush administration to deny it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

It's impossible to tell for certain.

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

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.

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.

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

But what I would like to say is that quotas do work.

He always tells the truth.

Let s just say that because of it my intellect won in the lottery.

The time has come to move from words to action.

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.

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.

And Israel s withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000, after 18 years of useless military occupation, largely reflected the immense impact of the Four Mothers Movement on Israel s government.

That's a statement about vision.

Chinkin argues that

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.

But, in many cases, the job has simply become uneconomic to maintain in the West, regardless of whether or not India exists.

By failing to reach out meaningfully to the Tamil speaking minority, and by cracking down on opposition voices and any kind of dissent in Sri Lanka, the government is throwing away a once in a generation opportunity.

That's a fine definition. So we can put it this way we can say that, you know, we have this chain of events.

This is, to be sure, easier said than done.

To say that rice is worse than sugar is simply ludicrous.

At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth trembles, and the cry is heard among the nations.

At the noise of the taking of Babylon the earth is moved, and the cry is heard among the nations.

At the country level, where the operational activities took place, there was a need to build and enhance national capacities to engage meaningfully with the United Nations system.

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

And I won t be able to say too much about it.