Sentence examples for a pointless attempt from inspiring English sources
Like his counterparts in Beijing, Mr Fraser views the pivot as a pointless attempt to contain Chinese influence in the Pacific that will "clearly lead to difficulties between the US and China at some point".
Each of them, unable to articulate his frustration, expends it in violence — Deco in the ring, Naldinho in a pointless attempt at a drugstore holdup — but the second half of the movie somehow dilutes, rather than distills, our sense of the men's worldly yearnings.
"It is a pointless attempt to delay an inevitable move that will be taken in Jersey one day and States members should have the courage of the convictions and not delay it simply because it is an election year," he said.
He said: "For him to claim that what is going on Iraq now would have happened anyway, even if the invasion of Iraq had not happened, is a completely pointless attempt to airbrush out what happened 11 years ago and somehow pretend it has got no connection with what is happening today".
Andrew Lloyd Webber reportedly flew in first class from New York on Monday in an ultimately pointless attempt to bolster the government's numbers in the House of Lords ahead of the tax credits vote.
Prince William is the British forces' most high-profile officer (we'll come to his brother later), so dispatching him to the islands in this anniversary year was bound to be read as an elaborately pointless attempt to wind up the already wound-up Argentina – and it has predictably succeeded.
Tobias Ellwood drills holes in the ice - it's about a metre from the snowcrust to the water - and the MPs settle down for a long and apparently pointless attempt to catch supper.
Just what turned out to be a desperate yet ultimately pointless attempt at delaying the inevitable.
The ultimately pointless attempt at censorship by asking the magazine to paste stickers on a representation of areas controlled by India, Pakistan and China is, sadly, in line with its inflexible and deeply flawed Kashmir policy.
Over recent decades, our system has been increasingly distorted by futile and pointless attempts to make state schools look more like private schools.
