Sentence examples for pointless building from inspiring English sources

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Well, they could toll everything out which would make it pointless building the tunnel.

Beijing has called time on industrial excess, ordering banks to stop funnelling cash towards pointless building schemes.

With these two performances, Kaprow led groups of volunteers to perform construction tasks which looked pretty pointless: building a structure of ice under the sun, or moving empty barrels from their storing place.

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Trying to re-invent itself as some religiously appropriate cultural destination is as pointless as building a casino in the middle of Mecca in order to attract more secular visitors.

It is impossible to read it without thinking of the summer that Mr. Gore's father put him through an equally pointless character-building exercise, making him clear 20 hilly acres with a hand ax.

Something about it must have struck a nerve, making it seem like the embodiment of people's preconceptions that startups are building pointless products for lazy, entitled jerks — and that they are, in the process, making things worse for everyone else.

In short, we have a historic opportunity to increase our electricity prices and spend billions of pounds building pointless new power stations that pollute our rivers and poor toxic gases into our skies.

Its university fees have risen 17 times as fast as median incomes since 1980, partly to pay for pointless bureaucracy and flashy buildings.

He said the whole way schools are built needed radical reform to ensure more money is not wasted on pointless bureaucracy, to ensure buildings are built on budget and on time.

The public in the United Kingdom, and its national treasury, became exhausted by the previous Labour government's slavish following of the Bush administration into two pointless and costly nation-building wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The whole construction industry, to take one example, shuts down in mid-December, and it's pointless trying to get any building work done until at least mid-January.

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