Sentence examples for pointless fight from inspiring English sources

The day Cameron walks into Downing Street fires the gun for a terrible two-year referendum battle, with a country and his party riven by a pointless fight.

The first, coming as it did on the heels of a debilitating and entirely pointless fight over raising the debt ceiling, captures how American political dysfunction has undermined the economy's institutional pillars.

He is a loud, paranoid cabdriver who picks a pointless fight with Charlie (Mr. Carrey), the sweet state trooper who is about to escort his new bride over the threshold of their home.

In a single demi-term, it nearly shut down the government, fouled a fledgling economic recovery with a pointless fight over the debt ceiling, and then threatened to withhold spending money for 160 million working Americans by raising the payroll tax.

Mr. McConnell's clever plan was that the Democrats would not be able to muster a regular majority to pass the bill, thus proving to the world (or at least the 18 people who still have the patience to pay attention to Congress) that the Democrats don't really want to end the pointless fight over the debt ceiling Mr. McConnell cooked up in 2011.

It was spectacularly incompetent in foreign policy, picking pointless fights with Germany.

But it's still neither politically helpful nor intellectually healthy for a minority political party to pick pointless fights with the nation's scientific and technical elite.

I can only tell you that my wife recently pleaded with me not to get into any more pointless fights with people.

But the language of the reports is cold and impersonal, a numbing litany of repeated acts of self-harm, of pointless fights and meaningless feuds, of abuse and misery and privation.

The trouble is, many taxpayers see EU spending as an extra burden; they do not want budget rises to mean they start earning for themselves in September.One of the most vexed, and ultimately pointless, fights will be over "own resources".

"Now they tell me the market may be cooling again, but the house I wanted last week had 10 offers on it!" After eight years of relentless price escalation, angry customers are slamming down phones, brokers said, and picking pointless fights with sellers.