Sentence examples for pointless debates from inspiring English sources

Yes, he might have won more votes in Michigan and Ohio if he hadn't blundered, all-too-characteristically, into pointless debates about John F. Kennedy's church-state speech and the value of a college education.

They remain stuck in passionate but pointless debates about the workers' immigration status, and conduct crackdowns on zoning and quality-of-life offenses that please the law-and-order crowd but miss the far bigger picture.

Such placements are few, far between and expensive, and pointless debates about whether it's the NHS or social services who should pay for it do not speed up the process of finding somewhere for her.

In a sensible world they would share the credit, but in our world we have endless pointless debates (the betting money right now seems to be pointing toward Englert and Higgs, but who knows).

The cause of secularists who need to convince a sometimes sceptical Muslim constituency about the merits of maintaining a neutral public space where everyone – from orthodox Salafis to hedonists in Haymarket – can live freely is lost over pointless debates on matters of private faith.

Ministers may be the spared long nights of pointless debates, but they will still have the agonising experience of judging every proposal – not on its merits nor even its popularity – but on the ability of the whips to cobble together a majority in its favour by bribery, bullying – and sometimes even rational argument.

This is a pointless debate.

This pointless debate is dragging.

Cue the endless, pointless debate about whether he was truly a vegetarian.

This drags us back to the pointless debate on "when life begins".

And it doesn't address the fundamental issue that keeps Americans mired in this tragic, pointless debate.