Sentence examples for pointless dispute from inspiring English sources

Makarova is similarly resolute, one of the Tour's hardest off-court workers, and, after an extended and pointless dispute with the umpire on an overruled let, broke and held to take the first set.

The plan was a terrific success, because if you recall, Congress totally didn't get bogged down months later in a pointless dispute over the debt ceiling, in which America's credit rating wasn't at all held hostage by a gang of lunatics who thought it was eminently reasonable to threaten the entire global economy with the imminent default on America's debt.

So, the PM is personally committed to maintaining a pointless diplomatic dispute with a fellow EU state over whether a couple of square miles of the Mediterranean is in an environmental zone with a Spanish name or with a British name, because of a nearby rock that was of strategic military significance decades ago.

GTR's chief executive, Charles Horton, wrote to Mick Cash, the RMT general secretary, on Monday, calling the dispute "pointless" and putting a deadline on an eight-point offer first issued by the company in August.

By September, it became clear that a debt-for-equity swap would transform INM's creditors into shareholders, rendering the O'Reilly-O'Brien dispute largely pointless.

Even patchers admit that the disputes are essentially pointless, but they shrug and say they "just happen".

This will let them know that you have been watching them the entire time and to argue or dispute this fact is pointless.

In this way philosophical research had degenerated into sophistical disputes and a series of pointless battles over words.

From this point of view, disputes about which of intuitionist and classical mathemtics seem pointless; they are both part of the subject matter of mathematics.

The Security Council's pusillanimity in the face of the slaughter is not in dispute, but what are we to make of Annan's certainty that it would have been pointless to raise the alarm months earlier?

The Angels/Outcasts dispute that cost Mal St Clair and Flipper Armstrong their lives is almost certainly just one more atavistic, pointless turf war.