The common wisdom was nobody could do it and there was no point in trying.

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Everybody was too apathetic, they said, there's no point in trying.

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He really had never heard me at all, and that made it very clear to me that there was no point in trying to talk to him at this time of the day.

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He sees no point in Renault trying to edge its way back into the mature and highly competitive American market, from which it retreated years ago.

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No wonder that he sees little point in trying very hard to excel.

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