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

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This is just pointless and detrimental.

Now it is pointless to generate hostility.

In fact, this is all a pointless charade.

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.

Social insurance was not just pointless it was counterproductive.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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 State party notes that, while the author contends that to do so would have been pointless , it has been the Committee's constant approach that doubts about the effectiveness of remedies is not sufficient reason not to exhaust them.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Golubchuk s children argue that he interacts with them. 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.

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.

Poverty and underdevelopment cannot be dissociated from the increased international tension and conflict that afflict political stability in various parts of the world, thus poisoning normal relationships between nations, because boundaries are pointless in this age of global interaction.

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 West would appear confused, its allies would be dismayed, and its enemies would be emboldened.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

There would be specific limitations for which no bonus would be paid.

Banking and financial systems would be balkanized. Workers would be prevented from moving.

So cutting interest rates would not only be stupid it would be crazy.

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?

How would you talk? How would you be?

Some members wondered whether the body would be permanent and how it would be organized, in particular whether it would be composed of several chambers and on what criteria these chambers would be established.

would be this.

Private businesses would develop, jobs would be created, and incomes would rise.

Such entities would be able to make investments that would not be possible otherwise.

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.