1. The government's counsel countered that a judicial review would be pointless at the current stage because the proposal may be altered after consultation.
2. So it would be pointless to look into whether China had breached any WTO rules in issuing the directive.
3. The root cause of this phenomenon should be studied first, and simply cursing the rich people would be pointless.
4. Abbas told a news conference in Gaza the rocket shootings were " pointless and needless, they must be stopped ".
5. " It would be pointless even if I managed to understand how it works, " one reviewer wrote in the Apple App Store.
6. " Rescue efforts would be pointless if the victims choose to reunite with their'buyer husbands', " he says.
7. It would be intolerable if the tremendous public input is subject to bureaucratic nonsense and pointless hollow talks.