Sentence examples for useless arguing from inspiring English sources

As reports on the millions of voters began to dominate headlines on Sunday evening, the Spanish justice minister, Rafael Catalá, dismissed the vote as "fruitless and useless", arguing that it had been "carried out on the margin of any legal framework".

Those who say the treaty is useless argue that the bad guys either don't sign the treaty, or they do and then cheat.

It is useless to argue the freedom of the press.

But it's useless to argue with books like "The Secret" and "The Power".

"[T]he sorts of rules that Maddow proposes are useless", he argues.

If a foreigner says something off the mark about them, they will heartily agree, thinking it useless to argue with anyone so unperceptive.

For the rest, it is useless to argue that the alterations that take place in the animal machine and that are symptoms of the decline of the species do not produce a large change in structure, which would be a true metamorphosis.

Believing it was useless to continue arguing with Cao, Vann climbed back into his L-19 reconnaissance aircraft and left Tan Hiep.

Luxury is a form of waste that arose to confer status on an essentially useless class, he argued in "The Theory of the Leisure Class", published in 1899.

Too Big to Know, by David Weinberger (Basic Books, £17.99) Here is another entry in the increasingly poignant genre of books arguing that books are useless.

The school backed up its proposal with a devastating statistical analysis, arguing that the S.A.T. is virtually useless as a tool for making admissions decisions.