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Alex Batchelor, its chief executive, also said it would give doctors the ability to tell if a patient was suffering from a bacterial or a viral infection – enabling them to avoid pointlessly prescribing antibiotics if it is was the latter.

Her actions seem pointlessly vengeful, so I’d want to ask why.

The chamber’s pro-Russian opposition ridiculed the document – which aims to boost defence spending by 2030 to 1% of gross domestic product – as pointlessly directed against Moscow in view of Moldova’s small land mass and armed forces.

The meme of the involuted king came to represent the perhaps pointlessly intense pressure of China’s rat race, and the impossibility of catching a break.

Google’s internet balloons — like Facebook’s failed attempt at internet-beaming drones — might be pointlessly showy pieces of equipment where conventional cellphone towers are better suited.

Then Eyzaguirre pointlessly and provocatively runs into Maschio on the other wing, before trotting away waving his arms dismissively.

Filmed with pointlessly self-conscious camera movements (as if deliberately disassociating from classic Hollywood style), director Tamás Yvan Topolánszky tries in vain to be serious yet also archly ironic.

Like the travel ban, the treatment of these students seems arbitrary and pointlessly cruel.

Seriously though, when you look at what cryptocurrency is, it's a measure of electricity pointlessly wasted, producing heat and pollution in the process.

In fact, being stripped of his throne (and his clothes) and being forced to bow in front of Jafar are exactly the things it takes for the Sultan to finally realise just how pointlessly stupid and needlessly troubling the law is.

Republicans can laugh and will, but I think pointlessly and into the wind.

There’s just something weirdly patriarchal about this story that prizes women getting pregnant and cooking dinner for their husbands before they’re eventually, pointlessly offed.

We can say, look, there were serious charges against Clinton, but an important good was defeated by this pointlessly prolonged, politically exacerbated fight that was never going to end in his eviction from office.

Finally, his boots come off, while the pair ramble and bicker pointlessly.

Other meanings Women playing Musical chairs in Bangladesh "Playing musical chairs" is also a metaphorical way of describing any activity where items or people are repeatedly and usually pointlessly shuffled among various locations.