Sentence examples for pointless efforts from inspiring English sources

NOW that India and the world are over the initial shock of the terrorist attacks last month in Mumbai, efforts to understand what happened and prevent future calamities are being hampered in ways familiar to Israelis like myself, who have lived through far too many such events: pointless efforts to place blame, and a failure to put the attacks in the proper historical context.

There must be some streamlining to be done there: Microsoft should have pre-released video of a mockup line to obviate such redundant and pointless efforts.

Enabling WPA2 Enterprise and MAC Filtering are pointless efforts if your router's administrator account and password are left as default.

Is it pointless effort?

What a lot of pointless effort.

But making an effort to do so could spare firms pointless effort.

I've seen presidents founder in a pointless effort to seem more like a regular guy (George H.W. Bush).

Though, as I say, at the time it all appeared to be an aimless monochrome of regret and shame, wrong turns and pointless effort.

While the journal based at the university used the inviting name cited above, the study by Aparna A. Labroo and Sarah Kim is formally titled "From Inherent Value to Incentive Value: When and Why Pointless Effort Enhances Consumer Preference".

As silly as that comment was, the sad thing is that it was not the most ridiculous thing said by a right-winger in the last several weeks of chaos, which they unleashed in a pointless effort to paralyze health care reform.

Justice Thomas revisits this painful episode, fresh in his memory, and picks apart the charges leveled against him by Anita Hill, his former employee at the commission, in an earnest but ultimately pointless effort to set the record straight and settle some scores along the way.