To me, useless jobs are, well, useless.

All our efforts to foster development could then be brought to naught.

Without those commitments, the present Conference would be a meaningless exercise.

He then used all the appeal procedures available to him, to no avail.

Was this, in hindsight, all in vain? By no means!

His elimination shows the futility of the river of terror that he unleashed on history.

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

Iranians were initially hopeful, but after years of waiting in vain they grew impatient.

Litigation before the courts of Portugal is still ongoing, and the authors have not shown that these remedies would be futile.

All of these abuses are raised repeatedly at EU China summits, to little or no avail.

Without the full recognition of these rights and the implementation of corrective measures at all levels, any attempt to achieve sustainable forest management would be futile.

Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar posts a video which shows what could be done with the money going towards the war in Iraq a staggering 720 million a day.

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.

For too long, there has been an unnecessary debate about whether the solution to poverty in Africa and elsewhere is more money.

The fires of the US sub prime mortgage crisis were stoked not just by domestic regulatory failures, but also by a global saving glut, which sent banks on a wild goose chase for yield.

Blindly pumping the current bail out billions into old industries and exhausted economic models will be throwing good money after bad while mortgaging our children s future.

Similarly, it does not transpire from the trial transcript that counsel was appointed against the author's will or that he limited his interventions during the remainder of the trial to redundant pleadings.

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.

Some African leaders notably Ghana s president, John Kufuor, and outgoing African Union head Alpha Konare have tried to cajole Mugabe towards reform, to no avail.

Third country banks are prohibited from opening accounts in United States dollars for Cuban natural or legal persons or from carrying out any financial transactions in that currency with Cuban entities or persons, and if they do so, such accounts will be confiscated

We only weaken our hand in fighting the horrors of extreme poverty or terrorism if, in our efforts to do so, we deny the very human rights that these scourges take away from citizens.

Of course, I do not take issue with the Waterloo room out of some sense of French chauvinism. Napoleon was a despot, who waged useless and exceedingly bloody wars from Spain to Russia.

It showed that persistent pressure works better than the constructive engagement that it had pursued, to no avail, for the eight years since Burma joined the organization.

Set in the near future, the story unfolds against the background of a US that has slid into financial ruin and single party dictatorship, and that finds itself embroiled in yet another pointless foreign military adventure this time in Venezuela.

The State party's action in expelling the complainant in the face of the Committee's request for interim measures nullified the effective exercise of the right to complaint conferred by article 22, and has rendered the Committee's final decision on the merits futile and devoid of object.

Iranian reformers had tried (to no avail) since the landslide 1997 election of President Mohammed Khatami, to change the system from within. Iranians were initially hopeful, but after years of waiting in vain they grew impatient.

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.

To me, useless jobs are, well, useless. And, while redundant domain names are not evil, I do think that they are a waste of resources.

If we are serious about wanting to solve global warming, we need to take action that actually does good as opposed to wasting valuable resources on empty agreements and moral posturing that merely make us feel good.

2.2 The author did not submit an application for amparo (enforcement of constitutional rights) with the Constitutional Court, considering that it would serve no purpose in view of the Court's repeated denial of applications for amparo for the purpose of reviewing facts established in the judgements of the ordinary courts.

All of these abuses are raised repeatedly at EU China summits, to little or no avail. So is this the time to end the arms ban imposed by both Europe and America after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989?

By no means! Although Ukraine is in big economic and social trouble, it should not be forgotten that it has, until today, been saved from the fate of becoming a guided democracy in the Russian mold.

For ASEAN, the episode was a lesson in assertiveness. It showed that persistent pressure works better than the constructive engagement that it had pursued, to no avail, for the eight years since Burma joined the organization.

When there is sufficient excess supply in the economy, promoting supply side productivity is practically useless without efforts to boost demand. That implies that it was not appropriate to focus on growth until the deflation gap narrowed considerably that is, until now.