Sentence examples for pointless interventions from inspiring English sources

She also argues that much money is frittered on conferences, pointless interventions (for example to encourage abstinence), paying NGOs to repeat the same studies and hangers-on in the AIDS "mafia .Ms Pisani is at her best when talking about sex, which does most to explain why Africa is hit so hard.

Yet it's unfair to blame Franco alone for his pointless intervention.

While Mr. Obama clearly hoped that his proposal of a brief and pointless intervention in Syria would reassure the international community, it immediately drew howls of protest from U.S. allies, who argued that two days was too open-ended a timeframe for such a mission.

Attacking Isis from the air would be "pointless, futile and a dangerous empty gesture" without boots on the ground, a senior Tory MP has said after David Cameron indicated his intention to win a Parliamentary vote on Syrian intervention by Christmas.

The question of 'medically futile' interventions and pointless life-prolonging treatment has been discussed by several authors.

However, when interviewed again, two years later, she had come to see continuing to sustain his life as "cruel" and some physiotherapy interventions as "pointless".

Even if the person refuses treatment, this doesn't mean the intervention was pointless.

First in Georgia and now in Ukraine, Russia has shown it will escalate to extremes to assert its hold over its neighbours and convince the West that intervention is pointless.

Avoid all junk food, if your ADHD child is eating junk then most behavior intervention will be pointless.

Although I profit from the research investigations of Dr. Matei, what I cherish is my sense that she will level with me when medical interventions cannot control the cancer and become pointless, or worse.

Less than a year after the aide's delusional rant, the US was embroiled in its most disastrous military intervention for a generation and one of the most gruesomely pointless wars of modern times.