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

Now it is pointless to generate hostility.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

It is futile for the Bush administration to deny it.

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.

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.

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.

In that regard, it might be worth considering, when a major humanitarian crisis occurs, setting up a briefing session in a format open to all Member States, possibly using the framework of the Economic and Social Council.

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

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.

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

2. Reaffirms that, in order to achieve positive results, it is useful for the three regional centres to carry out dissemination and educational programmes that promote regional peace and security and that are aimed at changing basic attitudes with respect to peace and security and disarmament so as to support the achievement of the purposes and principles of the United Nations

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.

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.

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

While it might be argued that there was no point in an organization ratifying the convention if it had no competence at all to enact the requisite legislation, he submitted that if it had at least some competence, as in the case of the European Union, ratification made sense.

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

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

Such precedent demonstrates that it is not only desirable but also feasible to recast the driving force of trade negotiations from purely mercantilist, commercial interest towards the imperative of development.

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.

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.