Others, however, are useless and only complicate further an already complex and problematic situation.

Rogoff s discussion about the debts accumulated after WWII is beside the point.

But excessive secrecy leads to scarce resources being diverted into wild goose chases.

In the end, Chen s effort was as futile as it was foolish.

We must not undermine sound, lawful counter terrorism measures with specious arguments about their collateral impact.

To restrict comments to the report would therefore be an exercise in futility, a putting back of the clock.

And there are flowers that are self infertile. That means they can't the pollen in their bloom can't fertilize themselves.

After eight unproductive years since the 2004 Orange Revolution, the democratic opposition is depressed and demoralized.

Reformers also have the Obasanjo government s neo liberal economic policies, which they describe as punitive and intellectually bankrupt, in their sights.

Female flowers contain ten (or rarely five through abortion) sterile stamens (stamenoides) with heart shaped anthers.

Japan should be seeking to make a difference in securing stability in Asia, not playing sterile political games.

One reason that Russia s reform debates are so barren is the country s lack of coherent political parties.

As Arabs confront far reaching change, they must not be distracted into fruitless debates about the right types of government support for citizens.

If the third vote is fruitless, Parliament is dissolved and elections are proclaimed by the outgoing President within the next 30 days.

His delegation called on the sponsors of such draft resolutions to cease the practice of naming and shaming , which was counterproductive and contributed to polarization among Member States.

And it can be fun! That's the point of this talk it needn't be sterile. It needn't be bureaucratically untenable.

The worst mistake would be to follow the opposite policy an inevitably futile effort to appease the extremists or seek to moderate them.

The report referred to situations in which girls were perceived as a legitimate sexual replacement for the mother if the mother was sterile, an allegation which was entirely condemned by the Government of El Salvador.

In science, as in any complicated and creative endeavor, uniform opinions and approaches will always prove sterile. The coexistence of disparate ideas cultivates competition and progress.

But efforts to block technological change have been futile in the past, and they would be unwise today.

It was merely sterile gold and silver, some empty calories (in the form of sugar), and some psychoactive products coffee, tea, chocolate, and tobacco.

Some of these are hopeless universes, completely sterile, with other kinds of pathologies like no notion of space, no notion of time, no matter, other problems like that.

In a futile attempt to gain financial markets confidence, country after country has been forced to follow counter productive austerity policies as the price of support from the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank.

In such a state, initiative, especially political initiative, is worse than futile it is a crime, as the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the imprisoned former oil tycoon, has demonstrated.

These goals are within reach. Indeed, they are the only way for us to stop wasting trillions of dollars on financial bubbles, useless wars, and environmentally destructive forms of energy.

But even the best and most up to date donor policies will remain vain exercises if governments in developed countries fail to translate their commitments into hard cash and improvements in agricultural investment worldwide.

Both sides endorsed something like the pre 1967 borders, yet the deal was not quite struck, with each side claiming intransigence by the other on one or another point. Such a deal can be struck now, but only by avoiding the useless debate over who blocked peace in the past.

Although their supporters wanted to make them permanent, claiming that they were temporary allowed for the circumvention of procedural requirements in the legislative process that Democrats had created in a vain effort to guarantee fiscal sanity.

We hope to maintain that level of interest and engagement over the coming year and would be delighted to discuss other ideas for getting the Conference back to work after eight sterile years.

For starters, people tend to think of taxes as a loathsome infringement on their freedom, as if petty bureaucrats will inevitably squander the increased revenue on useless and ineffective government employees and programs.

But the Cameron government s approach is more sinister than the old right wing tactic of taking aim at disciplines that can be derided as effete.

But he makes that legitimate point in vain having rested its case on misjudgments, the administration now finds itself discredited by its own intelligence estimate.

While some critics have called this a futile war, other analysts have stressed the strategic importance of this area in the geopolitics of both nations.

Was it a blank year ? The answer would be yes if we measure accomplishments in terms of the effective negotiations achieved by a body whose main task is to negotiate agreements in the area of disarmament, arms control and non proliferation.

The bilateral US China talks in Warsaw in the 1960 s were fruitless until Richard M. Nixon and National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger opened a different, more direct discussion through the auspices of Pakistan.

As Asian innovation comes into its own, the US and other developed countries must find ways to participate or risk missing the opportunity of the century in a vain bid to recapture bygone supremacy.

This is a futile exercise, not only because Israel would never disarm unilaterally, but also because without normal inter state relations in the region it is impossible to engage seriously in an effective dialogue on such vital issues.

As Arabs confront far reaching change, they must not be distracted into fruitless debates about the right types of government support for citizens. What is needed is a root and branch transformation of the way that economic activity is carried out in all Arab nations.

While Argentina considers that verification is not only a fundamental component of any disarmament and non proliferation agreements but is also at the core of such agreements, it would advocate making progress in the area of nuclear disarmament, thus avoiding sterile discussions.

A futile attempt to avoid a breakup for a year or two after wasting trillions of euros in additional official financing by the core would mean a disorderly end, including the destruction of the single market, owing to the introduction of protectionist policies on a massive scale.

The worst mistake would be to follow the opposite policy an inevitably futile effort to appease the extremists or seek to moderate them. Such a campaign actually disheartens the relative moderates who, feeling sold out, will try to cut their own deal with Tehran.