waste of effort

He'll figure going after me is a waste of effort.

Now he was dead it looked a huge waste of effort.

This seems to be a waste of effort and resources to us.

If their art did not have that, it seemed like a waste of effort to her.

Fighting it began to seem like a waste of effort.

To do so would be a waste of effort and send the wrong message.

Perhaps we should sit and watch them die, rather than take part in a waste of effort.

There were fewer now, for it was a waste of effort.

But resistance was, in the end, a waste of effort.

No other nation requires such a waste of effort for so little gain.

It would be a waste of effort suing me, though.

"But accountability without investment can be a real waste of effort."

Changing course seemed reasonable, but it would be a waste of effort.

North's fleet was already well outside their space; further resources would be a waste of effort.

Unless you can prove them, it's worse than a waste of effort.

It really would be the most dreadful waste of effort to lose control now.

What an intoler- able waste of effort that would be.

Any attack on Valdor would probably be a waste of effort.

Belisarius, from experience, could have told him it was a waste of effort.

In this case that was a waste of effort.

Okay, seems as good a waste of effort as anything else.

But many other routine procedures are a waste of effort, the authors said.

After a while, though, it had seemed a waste of effort so he had stopped.

I hope this result is important and that it is not a waste of effort.