Europe s Pointless Deficit Targets?

Is Fiscal Stimulus Pointless?

This is just pointless and detrimental.

Now it is pointless to generate hostility.

In fact, this is all a pointless charade.

Social insurance was not just pointless it was counterproductive.

For example, Elena Ochkova wrote about the I Want Flowers website on her Vkontakte page, I d rather just buy myself some little tulips than waste money on this pointless, demeaning crap. No?

The West has never owned Turkey, so debating who lost it is pointless.

One delegation, however, said that such a statement was both ambiguous and pointless.

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

Understanding how pornography affects the brain and wreaks havoc on male virility permits people to make better informed choices rather than engage in pointless self loathing or reactive collective judgments in a world that has become more and more addictively hardcore.

This is not to say that the macroeconomic model building of the past generation has been pointless.

Steven Weinberg, the Nobel laureate, once said, The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

Indeed, human rights workers and lawyers working on defending political prisoners say that this work seems at times pointless .

The stationing of US Marines in northern Australia thus appears pointless these troops have no conceivable reason to be there.

It would be simply pointless to try to assess a country's efforts and successes without taking its particular circumstances into account.

Are pointless gestures really the way to secure a greener future? And what sort of message does turning out the lights send?

China s effort to hold down the value of the yuan vis à vis the dollar is thus a costly and pointless policy.

From this perspective, once Buffett earned his first few millions in the 1960 s, his efforts to accumulate more money can easily seem completely pointless.

Japan seems condemned to endure chronic and pointless political trench warfare until some crisis forces a realignment of political parties along ideological and policy lines.

Originally, the French and British went to Greece to help Serbia, but with Serbia's conquest in the fall of 1915, their continued presence was pointless.

Yet, despite this spending shortfall, Putin seems obsessed with making pointless and provocative gestures, such as resuming long range nuclear bomber flights off the American coast.

3.3 As regards the requirement that domestic remedies must be exhausted, the author maintains that it was pointless to apply to the Constitutional Court for amparo.

When Palestinians asked Mitchell for assurances that the US would support such a statehood declaration if talks failed, Mitchell responded that such a commitment would make negotiations pointless.

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.

Receive my instruction rather than silver knowledge rather than choice gold.

The representative of Spain pointed out that, while preferring dialogue to pointless confrontation, the Spanish Government would continue to vigorously defend its positions when these are based on reason and justice.

The author contends that the Court made it very clear that the outcome of further proceedings would go against the applicants, and that it was therefore pointless to pursue further costly remedies.

The next one should be Eastern rather than Western, an economist rather than a politician, and a visionary rather than a tactician.

Bankers, who may really be worried about their own bonuses, warn that higher capital requirements will force them to curtail lending, thus impeding economic growth. In fact, this is all a pointless charade.

But the Kremlin s myopic concentration on military matters, and its pointless attempts to play a zero sum game with the West has turned Russia into an object for manipulation by its junior partners.

Countering the assertion by John McWhorter at the New republic that learning French is pointless, Pascal Emmanuel Gobry writes on his Forbes blog that French might just be the language of the future

The debate about whether the US should allow Russia to have special interests in Eastern Europe renewed by Russia s opposition to America s proposed missile defense installations in the Czech Republic and Poland is pointless.

It is with sadness that we note the futile effort of our negotiating partner to keep an agenda item alive by transferring its consideration to the sixtieth session, which is both pointless and counterproductive.

He agreed to swap Palestinian prisoners for an abducted soldier, Gilad Shalit but, for Netanyahu, as for most Israelis, negotiating with an organization whose blatantly anti Semitic charter rejects Israel s right to exist is pointless.

In exchange for laying down their arms and ending a pointless and destructive war, Tiger soldiers should be encouraged to take part in politics, but on exactly the same terms as any other Sri Lankan.

I'd rather go swimming.

I'd rather go swimming.

That is rather unexpected.

Global rebalancing is painful for American consumers, and shows itself as higher headline inflation. But to respond by fighting inflation inside the US would be grossly inappropriate both much more painful for US consumers and pointless.

But establishing their father s awareness could be a double edged sword, since it could also mean that keeping him alive is pointless torture, and it is in his best interests to be allowed to die peacefully.

The other group is the cities bases of heavy, metal processing industry which, without huge investment cannot start up, or in which outdated technology makes it pointless to restart it at all (Zenica, Tuzla, Banja Luka).

The Chinese and their government are wedded to a different conception of society and polity community based rather than individualist, state centric rather than liberal, authoritarian rather than democratic.

You'd rather be left alone?

Rather, gold is a hedge.