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.

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.

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

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

As its population begins to shrink, it may even be worthwhile to shut down unviable cities and consolidate.

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.

But, in many cases, the job has simply become uneconomic to maintain in the West, regardless of whether or not India exists.

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

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.

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.

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.

I believe and I think it was the representative of Pakistan, Mr. Khan, who proposed this earlier that it might be worthwhile for the Chairman to hold informal consultations on how to promote this vision of the First Committee as an adjunct to other forums.

However, lodging an amparo application would have been futile because, according to the practice of the Constitutional Court, the right to review is not violated when it is the court of appeal that hands down the first conviction.

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

And Israel s withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000, after 18 years of useless military occupation, largely reflected the immense impact of the Four Mothers Movement on Israel s government.

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

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.

The 2008 financial crisis, aggravated by useless Keynesian public spending, has brought all European states to the edge of bankruptcy.

4.6 The State party considers that in cases of very minor offences the establishment of a review procedure in a higher court is self defeating, in view of the cost incurred and the unnecessary prolongation of proceedings.

It is with sadness that we note the futile effort of our negotiating partner to keep an agenda item alive by transferring its consideration to the sixtieth session, which is both pointless and counterproductive.

Considering the lessons learned in the past year, we can state that it will be futile and useless to try to reform a main organ of the United Nations without a shared diagnosis of its needs, bottlenecks and real capacity to fulfil its most sensitive tasks.

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

In my opinion, it is superfluous to ask the Palestinians to recognize the nationhood of a people with thousands of years of history and a state that maintains diplomatic relations with 150 countries around the world.

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.

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

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and it seems pointless to work to strengthen the Democratic links of the chain of fiscal advice when the Republican links are not just weak but absent.

It would be counterproductive to penalize countries like Costa Rica that had made significant strides towards disarmament, respect for human rights, a fair labour system and protection of the environment, by excluding them from cooperation programmes and restricting the entry of their products to developed countries' markets.

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

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.

But it does not help to solve major financial problems, and those that it does address (short term, overnight financing) could be dealt with more directly, with a more focused tax, better rules governing those transactions, and improved prudential regulation.

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.

While it might be argued that there was no point in an organization ratifying the convention if it had no competence at all to enact the requisite legislation, he submitted that if it had at least some competence, as in the case of the European Union, ratification made sense.

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.

By failing to reach out meaningfully to the Tamil speaking minority, and by cracking down on opposition voices and any kind of dissent in Sri Lanka, the government is throwing away a once in a generation opportunity.

That is an initiative that needs the meaningful support of the international community, especially given that it takes short term responses into consideration, whilst preventing and mitigating future vulnerabilities.

After the financial crisis erupted with full force in 2008, former US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker claimed that the only worthwhile financial innovation in recent decades was the ATM.