Sentence examples for useless fights from inspiring English sources

Since Darwin's book on the expression of emotion [ 14] and followed by numerous studies in the field, it is well known that information on social status can help individuals adjust their behaviour, for example by avoiding useless fights and polishing social interactions [ 15- 17].

Antagonistic competition is zero-sum because what is taken by the winners is lost for the losers, and it is also self-limiting because animals necessarily avoid useless fights and fruitless interactions and debates, thus converging toward antagonistic equilibriums, those of linear rank orders.

iRiver keeps fighting the useless fight against the iPod, this time trying to convince us that its 1GB T50 is as cool as the shuffle.

I know what will happen: another tedious and useless fight.

Go back to a useless fight and it will cost both sides a lot, for nothing.

In 1966, an early critic of the war, Sen. J. William Fulbright, pointed out that the domino theory obliged the United States to "fight in one country to avoid having to fight in another, although we could with equal logic have inferred that it is useless to fight in one country when the same conditions of conflict are present in another".

It was useless to fight the Vietnamese.

But it is useless to fight against drinking with laws and punishment".

It's so deep-rooted in our DNA that it's useless to fight it.

Stanley sprung to his feet with a revolver in each hand but concluded it was useless to fight.

An athlete taking multivitamins can become contaminated to make you fail a drug test, which is why in most cases, this defense is useless to fight off doping charges.