On the Yorkshireman's headstone is written: "Those who risk nothing do nothing, achieve nothing, become nothing".
Even if it somehow worked, the walkers said, it would achieve nothing and prove nothing.
"It could have been a lot more, but we have still qualified for the Champions League so to say that we have achieved nothing this season is to go overboard.
On the evidence of two previous offensives in Swat, this may achieve nothing good.
Many academics may bleat that this will achieve nothing but a detrimental dumbing-down of poetry, but as is the case with all major reforms (and it is widely agreed in poetry circles that "something has to be done"), a bold decision for change is needed.
That would achieve absolutely nothing," he said.
His aim was total control to achieve "perfection", nothing less.
This achieves literally nothing.
This enquiry will achieve nothing - indeed, will make things worse if it is to continue to be conducted in this blinkered way.
We should keep out of it... this war will achieve nothing, and to take part is to become a target for those who currently only see the US as the enemy.
Or perhaps this march will achieve nothing, and the cuts will happen anyway – the police will grumble, then shrug, then continue as before, albeit in a worse mood, and who's gonna be on the receiving end of that?
