All mothers know that drawing up birth plans can prove pointless when labour takes a different course.
That might deflect some complaints about the humanitarian cost of the embargo without weakening the arms-control regime.The entire debate, of course, will prove pointless if Iraq cannot be persuaded to agree to whatever new scheme emerges.
Three months after BP capped its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico, the state of Louisiana is still building a chain of sand berms off its coast to block and capture oil even as federal officials and many scientists argue that the effort will prove pointless.
THERE have already been so many inquiries into the Iraq war (including one in the Netherlands that this week judged the invasion to have been illegal), and it was all so long ago, that many people thought the latest British probe, under Sir John Chilcot, would prove pointless.
When it comes to Deportivo matches, it's rare that the alarm sounds, the bells ring and the commentator drags out the word Gol!, leaving you hanging on, desperate to know who got it but convinced that straining to hear will ultimately prove pointless.
His efforts, however, ultimately prove pointless, when everyone at school is treated to a sex-ed video starring his mother using an eggplant to demonstrate how to masturbate.
Wow, all those industry folks spent years trying to craft a deal that would boost their profits by circumventing laws and regulations in the U.S. and elsewhere, and now their efforts may prove pointless?
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And even if I think we're nearing the End of Specs the point where screen sizes (or megapixel counts, or clock speeds) are so large that making next year's even bigger will prove pointless to consumers it'd be silly to attack manufacturers for not investing their television R&D dollars in, say, jetpacks.
The visitors had shown little else of note during Sunday's game but, despite Hamburg scoring their first goal of the season, theirs proved a pointless endeavour yet again.
