Sentences with phrase «pointless exercise on»

Exceeding the limit is a pointless exercise on the road, so you concentrate on working the chassis to the point where it adopts a neutral attitude.

Not exact matches

It is only speculation that someone is «overplayed» until it is played out on the field and it is an exercise in pointless self promotion, it may make you feel better to get an unprovable opinion out there first, but you can't argue it into a fact.

«The whole delay and filibuster exercise on the budget agreement is utterly pointless.»

I know walking can seem pointless as you don't feel like you're exercising hard, but in my experience, it's the best exercise for getting rid of fat on your lower half.

Hitting Blu - ray combo pack and DVD last week from STX video partner Universal, Secret is even worse on a second viewing, the knowledge of its twists and mysteries casting nearly its every move as a pointless exercise and meaningless misdirect.

These extra costs may render the whole exercise pointless if they cancel out the savings you'd get on your interest.

Trying to handicap & discount that whole potential outcome may be a rather pointless exercise anyway — Merrion only has about 12 - 18 months of cash on hand, offset by a far larger amount of debt.

In most (but obviously not all) instances, I think trying to forecast the future is much like forecasting economic growth — a difficult, frustrating & often pointless exercise for investors — far better to focus on the best companies & management teams.

Second, trying to pin an appropriate P / E ratio on a volatile (and / or cyclical) business is a fairly pointless exercise.

Agri - Business — agreed, the reporting isn't much help: i) it's 5 - 6 years now since we've seen a useful / proper divisional breakout of Speciality Dairy vs. Animal Feed, ii) you could probably hazard a guess at their respective revenues now, but without a profit breakout that's a somewhat pointless exercise — which just leaves you with an aggregate divisional margin to rely on, and iii) I wouldn't worry much about Property — rental income's small in relation to the division, and any sale should be flagged, so you can back it out.

Unfortunately, this is somewhat academic... Focusing on a P / E ratio might make some sense with oil majors (since other investors are doing exactly the same), but for juniors it's a pretty pointless exercise.

During its celebratory opening days, the museum showcased five performances from its collection, acquired over the past decade — among them, Tania Bruguera's iconic meditation on state power Tatlin's Whisper # 5 (2008), in which two police officers on horseback ride through the gallery (in the Tate's case, the vast Turbine Hall), performing pointless crowd - control exercises.

Focusing on the «warmest year» is a pointless exercise, unless the warm anomaly is as large as 1998.

Lost in all the comments on CO2 plant food and nitrate starvation (most important point of this blog is we should agree to cut all the mindless banter), Judith Curry said: «Focusing on the «warmest year» is a pointless exercise, unless the warm anomaly is as large as 1998.

Judith said: «Focusing on the «warmest year» is a pointless exercise, unless the warm anomaly is as large as 1998.»

I just engaged in the completely pointless exercise of, over on WUWT, trying to point out that Wegman stated in figure 4.4 that M&M's red noise was generated using AR1 -LRB-.2), when in fact it can be conclusively proven (as above by DC in the last diagramme and the accompanying text), that it could not possibly have been AR1 -LRB-.2).

He went on to say that «shackling» Bronsdon to the repayment plan «would be such a pointless exercise» given that her «chances of ever repaying any portion of the loan are virtually non-existent.»

In absence of a Global agreement many Chinese investors simply began to trade on foreign exchanges, rendering the whole exercise pointless.

Asbestos around a heating duct boot, should have been one of the most pointless exercises ever engaged in, but where it might be known to have been done in a particular area and documented, perhaps a Registrant / REALTOR might be expected to be aware of it — depending on rarity.

It was a rather elaborate and pointless exercise for both of us, but we soldiered on through the 90 - minute application of dye, heat setting, rinsing and blow - drying.