Sentence examples for pointless state from inspiring English sources

He wants so much to be taken seriously - as a thinker on Northern Irish politics (he foresees a political realignment), third world aid (he's been there - largely pointless), state education ("beyond repair"), and global affairs.

The government is turning this case into a pointless state-federal clash.

Their effort may seem pointless in a state built on oil and now embracing a drilling bonanza unseen in 30 years.

"Any analysis of the match and the situation is pointless given the state of the team, the club and everyone else.

It should put an end to the anomaly whereby not only grassroots political organizing but also voting itself are worthwhile only in at most fifteen or so "battleground states" but pointless in the more than two-thirds of the country (the "spectator states") where the result is a foregone conclusion.

"A clear distinction must be made between legitimate acts of self-defense aimed at protecting Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, and pointless, immoral acts of violence".

Over recent decades, our system has been increasingly distorted by futile and pointless attempts to make state schools look more like private schools.

A good example was the notorious recent killing of one six-year-old by another: the culprit took the weapon from his uncle, who lived in a crack house and had a raft of arrest warrants out against his name.Yet there is an exception to Mr Lott's rule that gun-storage laws are pointless: Florida, the first state to adopt such a law, has seen a big drop in accidental gunshot deaths.

If you reach into path 1 with a neutron detector, then that measurement alters the original quantum state, making it pointless to speculate about what you would have seen if you'd measured magnetism in the path 2 instead, and vice versa.

The true causes are deep distrust, overly bureaucratic vision, pointless competition among E.U. member states and private-sector reticence.

Just another casualty in an 18-month-long, rather pointless, battle between the Departments of State and Commerce.