Sentence examples for pointless occupation from inspiring English sources
Mr Sharon's invasion of Lebanon, as minister of defence in 1982, plunged Israel into a costly and pointless occupation that dragged on for two decades.
There is no "emergency" requiring the House to throw another $33 billion into our increasingly bloody and pointless occupation of Afghanistan before we all go off to celebrate the anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from foreign occupation.
Pointless job number 5643.
The pointless invasion and occupation of Iraq is the most tragic-comic of these adventures.
He was introduced to Irish life by his pupil, Maurice Connor Druryury, whom he discouraged from studying philosophy, 'a dishonest and pointless occupation', and directed towards medicine.
The U.S. is once again embroiled in pointless unwinnable wars and illegal occupations, launched on dubious grounds, that continue indefinitely without any clear strategy or goal.
I am offended by horrible and strategically pointless wars of choice; by our costly military occupations of numerous nations; and by our forceable interference in other countries' affairs.
Its Union garrison had held out against Confederate occupation for months, and the Southern officers had long since realized that a direct assault on it would be pointless.
