They just seemed useless to me.

All my efforts turned out to be useless.

As a long term strategy, energy embargoes have always proven to be futile.

Responses were often vague, unhelpful or, worse, deceitful.

Speeches, particularly when delivered by leaders of great nations, can be useful, irrelevant, or dangerous.

The example of the use of the Brazilian cerrado, once considered useless, augurs well for the African savannas.

Desperate Russians rushed to buy whatever they could before their money became worthless.

The most beautiful things are the most useless ones, such as peacocks and lilies.

But as the superpowers learned in the Cold War, the absence of airtight verification does not render inspections useless.

Their goal to make the horns useless to poachers and at least a little dangerous to consumers.

When one looks closely, most of these tables are, as Henry Kissinger famously put it, content free.

The 2008 financial crisis, aggravated by useless Keynesian public spending, has brought all European states to the edge of bankruptcy.

By adopting new economic models, their large but finite reserves will not be rendered useless they will simply last longer.

And if existing rules, treaties, and standards are treated as if they were worthless, EU citizens rights become an empty shell.

But in Kyrgyzstan, one needs to understand that many medications prescribed by doctors are not only unnecessary but also dangerous at times.

Calling the sea fisheries inexhaustible, Huxley deemed regulations useless, since nothing we do seriously affects the number of fish.

Without the American climate change package, the promises made by the US administration only seven months ago at the Copenhagen summit have become worthless.

Certainly, America s guarantee of its NATO allies security will not become worthless but it will become far more difficult to redeem it in full.

An unprecedented effort by the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) in the wee hours of December 16 to stabilize the ruble, by hiking the interest rate from 10.5 to 17 , proved useless.

When the life of a people is going through this process of readaptation, it has to remedy its own defects, and get rid of those elements which become useless.

As a child welfare officer in Narok told me, Unless attitudes are changed, efforts to stamp out the practice will be futile.

As a child welfare officer in Narok told me, Unless attitudes are changed, efforts to stamp out the practice will be futile. quot

尽管人均作物产量仍将下降 但全球适耕土地数量比先前估计的要多 比如 巴西塞拉都 cerrado 原本认为无法耕种 但也已经开始使用 这对于非洲稀树草原来说是个福音 未使用土地储备也存在于南美 中亚和东欧各处

With political parties driven into irrelevance, parliament turned into a rubber stamp agency, and national television networks taken under government control, public discourse has all but disappeared. Ideas may be voiced, but there's barely any audience, and these utterances don't resonate they die away with no implications or consequences.

With political parties driven into irrelevance, parliament turned into a rubber stamp agency, and national television networks taken under government control, public discourse has all but disappeared.

Moreover, it was once hoped that NATO s small number of non strategic nuclear weapons sited in Europe could be withdrawn to the US, as they were widely considered militarily useless.

As to value at risk models, we now have inconvertible evidence they are very useful when they don t matter and totally useless when they do matter.

Parliament watered down a proposal for far reaching pension reform to the point that it borders on useless, and repeated promises to stop subsidizing wasteful energy consumption through low gas prices have not been honored.

This suggests that the government s policy of shifting gradually to a market based exchange rate may have been better executed than generally believed even the measures to support the stock market now look less futile than they did in July.