There has been much mostly fruitless debate about the origins of these added letters.

And the benefit was that not one minute was spent debating the merits of programming languages, a fruitless debate if I've ever seen one.

Mr Segni says he resorted to referendums after more than ten years of fruitless debate within the party on institutional reform.

Let us set aside, my beloved clergy, all fruitless debate regarding the propriety of an intercaldean caesura spanning some two decades.

However, within a few years, unsuccessful attempts to establish a published journal and fruitless internal debate about the Society's goals led to inactivity.

It has not sought solutions or analyses in fruitless debates that contribute nothing.

There are three steps the school system could take that might quell this fruitless debate and help our children.

Now, after decades of fruitless debate, it has inspired a sense of urgency.

Given the circumstances, she had no particular desire to spend any of the time she had left in fruitless debate with a feckless incompetent.

There ensued a boring and fruitless debate, solved by the arrival of the only other unbearded man in a hundred square measures.