Sentence examples similar to pointless request from inspiring English sources
The media, in turn, have moved towards a useful self-regulatory code, banning vexatious or pointless requests.
It was pointless to request a table unless your name happened to be Winston Frederick Churchill Guest.
When he later tried to disown the film and attribute it to Smithee, the Guild decided that his feud had been so public that any attempt by Kaye to distance himself was pointless, and denied his request.
Collaborative requesting took place in only 73% of assigned cases, but in nearly all of the remaining cases collaborative requesting would have been pointless as the relatives' views were known or requesting was logistically impossible.
Stop asking pointless questions.
Requests for $100 round trips to London are pointless.
Next to that fierce stance on the planet's future, the mild requests of activists for the last 25 years seem... well, next to pointless.
In rejecting a request from Greece to help pay for the fence, the European Commission described it as "pointless".
They're also requesting that OLPC be changed to "olpc," a demand I find onerous (and pointless).
