Of course it pays, if you like marshmallows, to wait.

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.

It is futile for the Bush administration to deny it.

To resolve the paradox, it helps to turn the story into a math problem.

The only meaningful answer to the question of how many universes there are is one.

5. If the proposal moves forward, it would be useful to have in mind the potential pitfalls with this approach.

We have to realize that it is not much use catching only the small fish it is the drug barons we must aim for.

D1 So, basically it's a moot point to reason with a zombie, since they can't understand you, let alone talk back.

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.

In support of that view, it was stated that it was useful to clarify who the participants of a preparatory conference might be.

Hey, do you think it's worthwhile to spend billions of Swiss francs looking for the Higgs boson?

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.

It is empty to pretend that we can impose peace with justice on every disorder, every dispute, outside our national borders.

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

In that context, we believe that it is worth proposing to all national committees that they submit to the Secretariat a short report on their work this year.

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.

It is futile for the DPRK to attempt to allay the suspicions of the international community about its nuclear activities.

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.

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.

There is no point laboring to wake up other adults in our lives if we send our children to be programmed by the state.

It is hardly useful for some to attempt to monopolize the solution to the world s problems if we do not all feel sincerely involved.

By acknowledging the valuable contribution of the private sector, and by seeking more areas for cost effective and mutually beneficial cooperation, Governments may expect to enhance the efficiency of population and development activities.

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

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.

6. It could be worthwhile to undertake a possible review of the issue of permanent membership of the Security Council as well as to reflect the important changes in the international situation.

His delegation wondered whether it would not be useful to include in the text of the article itself some of the more important points now contained in the commentary.

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.

We don't usually pay for air and tap water, because it is in such high abundance, selling it would be pointless.

It should be emphasized that stable economic growth with a favourable external debt situation would be sine qua non for consistent and viable internal stability.

In this context, it would be productive if a consensus could be reached on the common denominators of global economic interdependence, particularly on the challenges that lay ahead.

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.

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.

121. A proposal was made that it would be useful to mention in paragraph 6 the reasons that might prompt the arbitrators to hold a preparatory conference.

All things considered, it's not really such a good deal to come work down here anymore.

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.

It might be useful to set up a working group within the Sub Commission to draw up a general programme of work, though this should not hinder individual initiatives or prevent the Sub Commission from adapting to the needs of the moment.