American officials insist that the resolution has to be tough or it will serve no purpose.

ECONOMIST: Time for a decision | The

Trading exchanges make sense for vanilla products, but when it comes to highly unique, illiquid deals of the Abacus variety, an exchange would serve no purpose.

FORBES: Political Economy

If they serve no other purpose, Sunday's dismal events must cause Netanyahu to finally reconsiderhis attachment to Barak.

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"Raising interest rates further would serve no useful purpose, " said Peter Morici, a business professor at the University of Maryland.

FORBES: Fed Holds Steady

"If they don't have something about which they are uniquely united ... they really serve no particular purpose, " he said.

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In the case of electric power transmission, the government has acknowledged the economic reality and concluded that recurrent bankruptcy filings would serve no public purpose.

FORBES: Blame Antitrust, Not the Weather, For Travel Woes

They serve no constructive purpose.

FORBES: Campaign Finance Reform Does Not Equal Censorship

Amtrak has stumbled along for almost 40 years, and outside a few corridors that can sustain heavy traffic and can make a contribution to energy security, it only exists as a wispy network of long distance trains that serve no other purpose than to suck the taxpayer dry.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Not a model railroad

Lawyers for the Bergers and Wilsons argue that media ride-alongs serve no useful law-enforcement purpose.

ECONOMIST: Law and the media

In doing so, you should begin with the premise that no one is to blame and that a shouting match does not serve any purpose.

FORBES: Quit Yelling and Start Communicating

But no market value has been put on them (although loss-sharing agreements in part serve that purpose).

ECONOMIST: Economics focus