"If I'm not motivated, and the competition is not there, if it's a meaningless fight, it's time to roll, man, " Hopkins said by phone Sunday.

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So why bother paying attention to conventions if it's so meaningless?

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But the creation of a state without the other conditions is going to be meaningless and it's not going to lead to peace.

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But Associated Newspapers, which also publishes the Mail on Sunday and Evening Standard, said the report's ranking was "utterly meaningless" as it was based on the activities of just one supplier.

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For one, the light that falls on your eyes is meaningless because it could mean anything, it's what we do with information that makes the difference, in how we find patterns and associate those patterns with a useful meaning.

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It is the uncertainty about these forces that renders Obama's statement meaningless.

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And it's also worth remembering that this may not be quite the meaningless ritual combat that these bills led to in previous parliaments - this government has made a bit of a habit of taking up ideas floated by bright backbenchers in adjournment debates and Ten Minute Rule Bills, and putting them into action.

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If growth does not come near the administration's assumptions, the budget plan will be as meaningless as if it omitted major spending items.

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Chairman William Isaac called the expanded insurance cap a "meaningless ornament on the tree, " in part because it's too limited to help many small businesses.

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However, where it differs from the NFL's competing showcase is that the central contest is essentially meaningless, save for the bragging rights, the opportunity to publicise the league's new generation and to prove that there is life after Michael Jordan.

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"It's increasingly just something explosive or destructive that makes the term so broad as to be meaningless, " he said.

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"If every single toy has a choke hazard warning on it, then the warning label becomes meaningless, " complains Alison Cassady, author of the U.S. PIRG report.

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