Sentence examples for pointless restrictions from inspiring English sources

Archer now believes that terror suspects are subject to arbitrary and pointless restrictions, motivated by a desire to break their spirits, rather than genuine concerns that they are a threat.

Ten books, no hard covers, is emblematic of the bigger problems in prison -- problems generated by a full quarter of a century of ever more punitive, and ultimately pointless, restrictions, which purchased the worst recidivism rates in modern history and higher incarceration rates than anywhere else in the world.

Free app Tversity neatly sidesteps the pointless video/audio restrictions Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo alike slap on their consoles, making them able to play any format.

And the Obama administration has lifted many of the pointless and onerous restrictions on travel to Cuba.

"Texas politicians have now responded with one of the most blatantly pointless and insulting restrictions yet".

The ban on Spycatcher was lifted in 1988 when the law lords realised that overseas publication of the book made a gagging restriction pointless.

Victory made the Terror and the economic and social restrictions seem pointless.

But at the Leningradsky station, where passengers are accustomed to buying a few beers before boarding an overnight train, Yulia Semyonova, 24, and her boyfriend, Kirill Vasko, 26, said the new restrictions were pointless and inconvenient.

It would be excruciating to us, and yet the restrictions were not pointless.

There were so many hidden costs and restrictions, it seemed pointless.

To embrace death, or allow one's child to die, for a questionable reading of certain biblical dietary restrictions will seem to most a pointless pursuit of grief.