Sentence examples similar to engaged in a pointless exercise from inspiring English sources

That said, the waters get all sorts of muddy when that government is engaged in a pointless public feud with that broadcaster.

This report pushes the envelope of legal arguments and in a pointless exercise denies the illegality of settlements.

She did not yield immediately: Germany would not engage in a "pointless race to spend billions", she told 1,000-odd 1,000-odd in Stuttgart.

Engaging in a pointless activity; something futile". "2.

We tend to see WW1 as a pointless exercise in mass slaughter.

So what can be gleaned from as close as you can get to a pointless exercise in international football?

Criticising Valleywag in 2010 is something of a pointless exercise, like offering diplomatic counsel to the Ottoman Empire ten years after the Treaty of Lausanne.

In the Back Room, on the Lower East Side, the drinks are served in teacups, a pointless exercise in deception.

He knows he is engaged in a parasitical exercise without a shred of journalistic merit.

"Well, clearly nobody wants to fight the European Parliament elections, it feels like a pointless exercise.

The City is engaged in a damage limitation exercise, but should count itself lucky.