Now it is pointless to generate hostility.

Thus, there is no point in waiting for miracles.

It is futile for the Bush administration to deny it.

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.

In Canada, it is not feasible to measure housing need on the basis of waiting lists.

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.

She believed it would be helpful to find ways to deliver more effective cooperation along the lines of this rough demarcation.

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

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

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.

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.

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

We need to confront the next and potentially much bigger biomass boondoggle.

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

Perhaps it is futile to look for the single cause without which the financial system would not have blown up in our faces.

The Government would be following up on the implementation of the recommendations of the IPR, which related to modernizing the FDI entry regime, strengthening Board of Investment (BOI) core functions and reforming the tax regime on investment.

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

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.

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.

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Front loaded public investment could be funded through an enhanced European Investment Bank.

Second, investment in real estate development accounts for nearly one quarter of the total.

This agency acts as a one stop shop and as the focal point for investment promotion activities.

It was also reported that UNCTAD had carried out an assessment of the investment promotion capacity of the national investment promotion agency (Agence Nationale de Développement de l'Investissement).

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.

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.

Rather than securing investment for productive sectors of the economy, the financial industry has become adept at securing investment in itself.

Investment policies should extend to both domestic and foreign direct investment.

Mr. Darmawan Djajusman, Director of Investment Deregulation, Investment Coordinating Board, Indonesia

The investment policy reviews and investment guides produced by UNCTAD had been valuable in improving the investment policy environment in those countries.

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Stronger safety net programs might reduce the need for precautionary savings in the future, but such reforms cannot be accomplished overnight.

In particular, the Thai Exim Bank and the Board of Investment have been providing facilities (e.g. information, outward investment missions) to help Thai firms venture abroad.

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