The goal of eliminating guns is ultimately a fool's errand.
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Precisely measuring somewhat irrational human behavior is a fool's errand.
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Trying to replicate the Obama victory is a fool's errand.
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But fundamentally, trying to justify kitniyot is a fool's errand.
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It would be a fool's errand to project what follows.
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Charting the trajectory of Jay Duplass's career is a fool's errand.
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"It's a fool's errand," said Lucia Moses, senior editor at Digiday.
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It's a fool's errand to assign this to naked, blind racism.
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Pinning our hopes on any government mandate is a fool's errand.
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This is a fool's errand to try to find something else.
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But trying to establish any narrative coherence is a fool's errand.
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"Trying to time the markets is a fool's errand," he said.
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Trying to time the stock market is considered a fool's errand.
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Estimating the impact of the coronavirus sounds like a fool's errand.
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I initially feared that would be something of a fool's errand.
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Now that we've asserted what a fool's errand this is, guess what?
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But Huerta says this is a fool's errand, and she's not alone.
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Getting your hopes up for fantastic hardware is probably a fool's errand.
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So, it's really a fool's errand to try and predict right now.
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In the meantime, timing those spikes "is a fool's errand," Sonders said.
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Trying to use Facebook to take Facebook down is a fool's errand.
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Unfortunately for the progressives, the data show this is a fool's errand.
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"I think Bernie Sanders knows that it would be a fool's errand."
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Providing a synopsis of Southland Tales may well be a fool's errand.
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Of course, betting on boxing in 2017 seems like a fool's errand.
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Writing Mourinho's — or his team's — obituary is a fool's errand, of course.
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It's a fool's errand to try to predict the Democratic primary's outcome.
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Shutting down energy sources and growing by subtraction is a fool's errand.
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In an age of populist nationalism, it risks being a fool's errand.
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Calling peak oil has been a fool's errand for over a century.
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But what if trying to re-decentralise the internet is a fool's errand?
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"Lidar is a fool's errand," Musk said in April at a Tesla event.
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The Dowgins began to suspect that expanding their home was a fool's errand.
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At one point, somebody points out that I'm on a fool's errand. Duh?
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Hinsley knows that shutting down the entire black market is a fool's errand.
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It risks becoming a fool's errand on par with the Republicans' Benghazi boondoggle.
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Ultimately, looking for answers in Murakami's work can seem like a fool's errand.
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And lots of people knew and assisted him in this fool's errand. Why?
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Predicting the Democrats' nominee so early in the process is a fool's errand.
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Democrats are trying to shift public opinion, which is probably a fool's errand.
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But trying to predict what this court will do is a fool's errand.
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Maybe it was telling the truth, and hoping otherwise is a fool's errand.
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Whipping the new bill just after Trump spoke would have been a fool's errand.
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This is not about finding "backdoors" in current Huawei products — that's a fool's errand.
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There's a point where making more money becomes a bit of a fool's errand.
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They told me that trying to predict market bubbles is generally a fool's errand.
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Photo: Nude App/Melanie EhrenkranzFull disclosure, I sent this algorithm on a fool's errand.
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Creating a third party in America is always a bit of a fool's errand.
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As any clear-thinking economist will tell you, trade wars are a fool's errand.
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Searching for the perfect lifelong mate is a noble goal, but a fool's errand.
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Many other Obama administration officials believed that seeking Putin's help was a fool's errand.
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Today, Sanford's Freedom Caucus friends call his primary campaign against Trump a fool's errand.
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Check out the video above to see why interviewing Conway can be a fool's errand.
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"LIDAR is a fool's errand, and anyone who relies on LIDAR is doomed," he said.
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Frankly, it's a fool's errand to determine the 10 best films of any given year.
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That said, using math to explain what gold prices will do may a fool's errand.
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"Trying to predict everything at hole No. 12 may be a fool's errand," he said.
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Relying on self-reporting by those who are committing tax evasion is a fool's errand.
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It's a fool's errand to try to make something truly good from something boringly bad.
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Of course, drawing broader lessons from the macro moves may well prove a fool's errand.
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Of course, looking for more truth and honesty from politicians is probably a fool's errand.
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The elder men left the room, knowing a fool's errand when they saw one unfolding.
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Replicating it in the confines of your own home is, to be frank, a fool's errand.
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The bottom line: Trying to halt the pace of progress is a fool's errand, Kasparov argued.
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It's a fool's errand to try and be anyone other than the best version of yourself.
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It's a fool's errand to predict the Oscars with any degree of accuracy this far out.
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Pinning an answer for the opioid crisis on any one reason might be a fool's errand.
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Trying to assign a political ideology that reflects or supports his actions is a fool's errand.
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Predicting who will come out on top in the Trump White House is a fool's errand.
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But some scientists think it's a fool's errand that won't come close to solving the problem.
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Calling the top of the bull market in bonds has for years been a fool's errand.
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If meditation in this mental state was a fool's errand, napping was a fool's unpaid internship.
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That is why trying to forecast the direction of the stock market is a fool's errand.
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But since predicting earthquakes is a fool's errand, the U.S. generally goes with risk over expense.
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Which means that predictions about where he will go from here seem like a fool's errand.
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Finding deeper meaning in diss tracks and incendiary TMZ clips often seems like a fool's errand.
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Unlike his Abstract Expressionist predecessors, he dismissed the search for an "authentic" self as a fool's errand.
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Miami Beach, where that same water sends city officials on the fool's errand of building taller streets.
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Restoring greatness has always been a fool's errand, as Justinian, and many other rulers have often discovered.
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Predicting the short-term fluctuations of a multifaceted and sentiment-driven market is probably a fool's errand.
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And that arbitrarily defining morality within the bigger picture of a violent sport is a fool's errand.
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And second, bipartisanship just for the sake of chasing a few favorable headlines is a fool's errand.
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Perhaps he is hinting that to imagine we might be nurtured by art is a fool's errand.
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Bringing fans backstage means being sure you can get them out, which can be a fool's errand.
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Indoor plumbing is a fool's errand because of the frozen ground, so most toilets are in outhouses.
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It's like telling yourself you can't keep chasing all those things because it becomes a fool's errand.
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Trying to describe the plot of Gingerbread, the latest novel from Helen Oyeyemi, is a fool's errand.
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Consider a quote that Gopnik employs in suggesting that appraising Buddhist philosophy may be a fool's errand.
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And with a character as morally ambiguous as Jaime Lannister, it's practically a fool's errand to try.
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The evidence is overwhelming: Trying to predict general election outcomes from primary results is a fool's errand.
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Attempting to hold Trump to that bar of independence and integrity may sound like a fool's errand.
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Ask any expert investor, and they'll tell you that trying to time the market is a fool's errand.
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It might be a fool's errand, but I learned something I didn't know before giving it a go.
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What they may not have known is that, historically speaking, reading Apple's tea leaves is a fool's errand.
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" Let go of the fool's errand of "try[ing] to fix people who don't want to be fixed.
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Trying in September to predict who will play for the national championship in January is a fool's errand.
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His intention was only to rattle Lester, to get in his head, and it was a fool's errand.
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Putting controls on these platforms to solve the problems of the past few years is a fool's errand.
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That effort is both a fool's errand for the country and a poisoned chalice for conservatives and Republicans.
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Mr. Bannon argues that it would be a fool's errand to try to placate Democrats on Capitol Hill.
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"I know they say it's a fool's errand, but Bernie's going to bring new people out," said Blake.
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It is thus a fool's errand to imagine, let alone seek, a modus vivendi without conflict or competition.
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But if you use your wiles to slip away, the "distraction" might send them on a fool's errand.
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But fighting for programs without fighting to enhance the democratic rights of all Americans is a fool's errand.
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The two companies calculate their cloud revenue in different ways, so apples-to-apples comparisons are a fool's errand.
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Seeking answers is largely a fool's errand in Lynch's work, but finding complements is far more fun and informative.
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When prosecutors asked for a second trial, experts speculated that it might be a bit of a fool's errand.
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They got to the conference and there was no cell service, which made promoting an app a fool's errand.
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In fact, Google data reveals what a fool's errand it is to try to extinguish piracy with brute force.
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This sensitivity to initial conditions, later popularized as the butterfly effect, made predicting the far future a fool's errand.
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The marketplace is constantly evolving, and creating legal "silos" today to regulate tomorrow's new activities is a fool's errand.
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The Republicans trying to save Moore are on a fool's errand -- defending a man who can't even defend himself.
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That fight is a "fool's errand," according to Steve Phillips, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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Asking art to fulfill the same role that religion and moral philosophy has traditionally filled is a fool's errand.
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She said she understood his concerns about racism, but called his actions "a fool's errand" that harmed national security.
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The fool's errand of proposing a new tax aside, forgiving student loans would be political suicide for conservative policymakers.
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Greg Abbott is a fool's errand because the state isn't ready to put a Democrat in the governor's mansion.
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For Trump, getting bogged down in the minutia and absurdity of Warren's various plans would be a fool's errand.
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But that is a fool's errand, the writer argued, because there is no understanding people who don't accept facts.
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Expecting my kids — Sam, 8, and Jack, 5 — to sit still while I do so is a fool's errand.
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Even UNH pollster Andrew Smith said it's "a fool's errand" to try to nail the results with the final poll.
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It may seem like competing with Slack, the enormously popular enterprise communications tool would be a fool's errand for Keybase.
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The advice still stands not to change anything in your portfolio; trying to time the market is a fool's errand.
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But I wouldn't just go out on some fool's errand, chasing at windmills, on a suicide mission for no reason.
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If you've ever tried to listen to "Edge of Seventeen" sitting in your designated seat, it's a goddamn fool's errand.
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"I think it's a fool's errand to think you can stop the aftermarket," he told Reuters in a telephone interview.
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Although current polling shows Clinton with an overwhelming edge, making political predictions seven months in advance is a fool's errand.
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The tragedy of the 2016 campaign is that Trump has mobilized a constituency with legitimate grievances on a fool's errand.
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It's probably a fool's errand to try to predict where it'll go, but you can't win if you don't play.
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And the man most intimately acquainted with the fool's errand that is DeAndre Jordan shooting free throws, is DeAndre Jordan.
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Following Tolkien on what seems a fool's errand is a boyish, worried, unfailingly loyal adjutant named, you guessed it, Sam.
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And then he mused about not wanting to pursue "a fool's errand" in an appearance at the University of Delaware.
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Any Democratic presidential candidate or Democratic president who hopes to build a bridge to Republicans is running a fool's errand.
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IT HAS become a fool's errand to try to predict when the Republicans may give up trying to reform health care.
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Anyone planning to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars (let alone millions) building a custom CMS is on a fool's errand.
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Nation-building should not be our job, and it has consistently been a fool's errand for us, particularly in this region.
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Mattis understands what this President is all about and that the notion of bringing him to normalcy is a fool's errand.
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Businessman Donald Trump Trump's appeal is so unconventional that assessing the effectiveness of his debate performances can be a fool's errand.
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Sometimes I hate-shop for jeans on the internet, even though shopping for jeans on the internet is a fool's errand.
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Trying to decipher exactly what Trump means is often a fool's errand, but this response seems to have several possible interpretations.
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Timothy Egan Wishing for supporters of Donald Trump to find their hearts, their brains or their patriotism is a fool's errand.
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I think that would be a fool's errand, to invite the president of the United States to come down on you.
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Only after our deployment exceeded half a million troops did our leaders seem to realize that this was a fool's errand.
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But as Jill Lepore pointed out in an excellent November 16 New Yorker essay, this is something of a fool's errand.
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To note them all is a fool's errand, but here are nine that we'll still be talking about months from now.
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"There are more things I want to get done, and I also don't want to go on some fool's errand," Hogan said.
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And it shapeshifts so frequently, and so deftly, that it's a fool's errand to guess at any moment what might happen next.
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"It would be a fool's errand to bet against a fully employed U.S. consumer," Jim Lowell, CIO of Adviser Investments, told CNBC.
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Asking them to voluntarily declare themselves media companies seems more and more like a fool's errand and unlikely to inspire substantive change.
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Juul spent millions trying to mislead San Franciscans and rewrite the rules to benefit itself before realizing that was a fool's errand.
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It's a fool's errand to predict exactly when and how much, but Dimon is almost certainly right to expect a cryptocurrency crash.
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While I believe that higher education is valuable, I also did not pursue a PhD because it seemed like a fool's errand.
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Fully predicting the effects of any rule change is a fool's errand—like Father Time and billable hours, unintended consequences remain undefeated.
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But it's a fool's errand to try and ascertain meaning or assume any kind of linear, logical thinking from what Trump says.
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All the way around continuing investments in fracked gas, fracked oil, coal, other fossil fuels and their infrastructure is a fool's errand.
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Trump turned to Congress and now European governments to fix the deal but, as he likely understands, it is a fool's errand.
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He tried to reduce the world to theory, to make it fit neatly into a conceptual box, which is a fool's errand.
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Don't worry about being the first with a technology — that's a fool's errand when you're competing against deep pockets like Apple and Samsung.
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Estimating compound political and economic effects out into the future and then properly discounting them back to the present is a fool's errand.
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"I don't want to make this a fool's errand," he said at an event in Florida last month to applause from the crowd.
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When I started LGBTrump — the largest Gays for Trump page on Facebook — in July 2015, many thought I was on a fool's errand.
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Expecting fresh, clean clothes from a smelly washer or sparkling plates from a dishwasher crusted with hard water minerals is a fool's errand.
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Andrews soon learns that he is on a fool's errand and sheds his starry-eyed Transcendentalism, along with other effete East Coast illusions.
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His actions are appalling enough; parsing and puzzling over his words, though we must endure their effects, seems like an excruciating fool's errand.
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Predicting whether a show will succeed or fail is a fool's errand, but several themes rose to the forefront during the week's presentations.
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Picking unnecessary fights with the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment of the Humanities and PBS is a fool's errand.
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Counting on lightning to strike twice by following the same playbook in the current business environment is proving to be a fool's errand.
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Given these numbers, pursuing impeachment seems, to Pelosi and Hoyer, like a fool's errand — all political downside with no practical chance of success.
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Goldman argues that the dispersion of stock returns has risen, meaning that picking particular stocks to outperform may become less of a fool's errand.
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"You'd send the person all over town with this stupid letter until they finally realized that they were on a fool's errand," Boese says.
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LIDAR, the light beam sensor that practically everyone views as an essential ingredient for self-driving cars, is "a fool's errand," according to Musk.
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Trump has convinced himself he was duped by GOP leaders into repealing health care and blowing his first seven months on a fool's errand.
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Inherent in the film is the question whether the search for closure is a fool's errand, one that only further feeds an unanswerable obsession.
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With features to launch and customers to support, the idea of spending time fiddling with your title tags can seem like a fool's errand.
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As I have learned over the past seven years as the SIGAR, predicting the future is often a fool's errand, doubly so in Afghanistan.
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Continuing to help the Saudi war effort is a fool's errand with cruel consequences for Yemeni civilians and no benefits for the United States.
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It may seem like a fool's errand to rely on Congress to do much of anything these days, especially in our hyper-partisan times.
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"I think it's a fool's errand to stand up and say by 2030 we're going to be done with fossil fuels," Mr. Perry said.
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He stops short, though, of proposing any one solution to the myriad issues at play on the water—that would be a fool's errand.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is on a "fool's errand" with his ongoing trade war with China, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Sunday.
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The Democratic Party's fixation on pursuing those who voted for Mr. Trump is a fool's errand because it's trying to fix the wrong problem.
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Source: Brookings Institution analysis of Emsi data By Karl Russell Expanding the knowledge economy across all of America might indeed be a fool's errand.
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With the world perched on the verge of multiple disasters, the battle to defend natural wine might seem to be an elitist fool's errand.
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Today, Mr. Sadat remains on the committee, but the experience has convinced him that championing human rights in Egypt's Parliament is a fool's errand.
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The very notion of organic teleportation was considered a fool's errand until 2109—technically impossible, owing to the fidget problem: living things are fidgety.
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" Though Biden is confident his family is on board, "the second piece," he said, "is that I don't want this to be a fool's errand.
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I can't decide if this represents a brilliant, potentially disruptive new set of contenders for the $70 billion ad market ... or a total fool's errand.
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Targeting excess steel capacity was "a fool's errand", because measuring it was very difficult, and estimates of China's steel production capacity varied enormously, it said.
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But without a proper bankruptcy code, which is only now coming into force and will take years to become effective, that is a fool's errand.
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For at least six months of 2100, I attempted to contact Green, which I'll admit I knew was a fool's errand before I even started.
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We're here to celebrate the ability to masticate food while explaining how it's a fool's errand to try to stop the Warriors with a zone.
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Instead of barnstorming across Ohio and Pennsylvania to court these much-needed swing states, Trump is wasting valuable time and money on a fool's errand.
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These tonal shifts and contradictions give the album its depth and make the attempt to hear it as a collection of singles a fool's errand.
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And, let's face it, putting one's hopes in the basket of gaining leniency by virtue of a president's clemency power is often a fool's errand.
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Rather than chasing the fool's errand of reshaping human nature, public policy ought to leverage the institutional designs that can protect against its worst impulses.
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Her escape from New York to find happiness in Josh's arms is a fool's errand, and a part of her knows it despite her hopes.
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" She went on, "I was thinking a photo of my face that encapsulates the entire record—but maybe that's a bit of a fool's errand.
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Predicting playoff failures for Coach Bill Belichick and Tom Brady has been a fool's errand, especially in the divisional round, where they are 12-2.
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I was trying to figure out what the story of the year was besides Donald Trump, but that seems a bit like a fool's errand.
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The idea that E20183 can be "won" grows more dubious every year, and comparing Nintendo with the likes of Sony or Microsoft is a fool's errand.
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Predicting the future can often feel like a fool's errand, as anyone who's ever forecasted the continued smartphone domination of Symbian and Windows Mobile would affirm.
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Whereas investing in the tail-end of a pitching staff used to be considered a fool's errand, these days it's an approved strategy of the intelligentsia.
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Chasing smartphones is a fool's errand these days, though who wouldn't like to see a revival of the "Moonraker" smartwatch that Nokia once built for Microsoft?
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It appears a fool's errand to attempt to apply context to the Founding Fathers motives and their comprehension of late-eighteenth century weaponry and emergent threats.
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Understandably, to assist us in this fool's errand, we've created terminology for every kind of club-ready weapon or beach-side bliss-out you'll ever hear.
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"I think it is a fool's errand to think that our postponing or canceling exercises will cause a positive reaction from the North," Mr. Maxwell said.
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The Steelers are good enough to make the spread a bit insulting, but betting against Brady and the Patriots in prime time is a fool's errand.
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Looking for insights into Mr Almodóvar's life via the character of Mallo may well be a fool's errand, and perhaps it makes for a simplistic reading.
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The entrepreneur admits that he internalized this doubt and eventually saw Musk's passion for colonizing Mars as a "fool's errand" that wouldn't happen in their lifetime.
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Experts agreed that the biggest roadblock, though, will be gaining government approval, especially in an era when bipartisan agreement on anything is pretty much a fool's errand.
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It seems like a fool's errand to try to evaluate Trump's policy positions, given that so much of his campaign is built on pure bluster and showmanship.
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Sadly for our country, I agree with Mr. Israel's conclusion that given today's makeup of Congress, any effort at substantive change is pretty much a fool's errand.
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Polls indicate that most New York City residents don't think that he should run and even many of his supporters feel his campaign is a fool's errand.
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The sexual harassment tsunami and the almost 50/50 split in our upper chamber of Congress make almost all 2018 election prognostications a fool's errand right now.
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The chaos does not seem to interest him, though I also think he believes that this last-ditch effort by the anti- Trumpers is a fool's errand.
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And yet taking this approach to rising through the ranks of the Trump White House — or any workplace — is a fool's errand, and it takes a toll.
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Everything we've learned about Trump since he took office suggests it's a fool's errand to attempt to convince him to take more responsible action regarding climate change.
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Even before the election, TPP didn't have the votes needed to pass on Congress, and attempting to revive it at this point would be a fool's errand.
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Without even knowing which court will hear the case, speculating on the result is really a fool's errand—even if it adds some hope for net neutrality supporters.
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"Comparing the safety of e-cigarettes to cigarettes in many ways is a fool's errand because the cigarette is the deadliest consumer product on the market," she said.
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In all honesty, though, to try and look out one year from now and tell people what the market will or will not do is a fool's errand.
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Charlie Brooker's show is never what it seems, and so it feels like a fool's errand to even speculate based on a 50-second trailer with no dialogue.
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And, of course, trying to speculate on the state of the economy and perceptions of national politics in two, four or six years is largely a fool's errand.
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Read more " _____ • Andrew J. Bacevich in Commonweal Magazine: "To expend energy exploring the implications of the so-called 'Age of Trump' is to engage in a fool's errand.
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" Biden said during an event at the University of Delaware that his family wants him to run, but he's still weighing whether it would be a "fool's errand.
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Both the Bush and Obama administrations learned the hard way that declaring victory and withdrawing forces too early in a generational struggle against extremists is a fool's errand.
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This may be why root connections happen in the first place, but cannot explain their perpetuation, for trying to help a trunkless stump reproduce would be a fool's errand.
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Attempting to top that resolution is a fool's errand, but the company that also supplies displays to its chief competition happily made some tweaks to the screen's color accuracy.
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"The mistake we make is trying to call the absolute bottom" — a task Dwyer has come to view as a fool's errand, as well as a some irrelevant question.
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The industry argues that the idea of segregating securities in a portfolio on the basis of how many days it would take to sell them is a fool's errand.
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She said that using Tinder to find other lactation fans is a fool's errand, and that even fetish sites aren't brimming with people who are interested in an ABR.
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The report and its authors on the National Security Council are indeed correct that hoping to "turn [authoritarian governments] into benign actors and trustworthy partners" was a fool's errand.
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The lack of success by mayors who have sought the White House might suggest that seeking the Oval Office from a foundation of city politics is a fool's errand.
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The search for ideas that could improve the economic conditions of deprived areas, long derided by economists as a fool's errand, is now at the top of policymakers' lists.
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I make the kind of record that I want to hear and I don't think, "What does an audience want?" and try to deliver that, because that's a fool's errand.
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Going forward, the question is what other esoteric right-wing talking head can Kristol try to cajole into his fool's errand: Ian Tuttle, John Fund, Kathryn Jean Lopez, Arch Puddington?
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At best, this process may supplant the thing we brand evil for a time, but the notion that evil can be "destroyed" is an ethical version of a fool's errand.
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Members from heavily Democratic districts will be reinforced hearing anti-Trump vitriol; those from swing districts that determine a majority will more likely be reinforced this is a fool's errand.
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There will also be critics who believe the government does not have the ability to pick "winners" and that trying to re-create Silicon Valley elsewhere is a fool's errand.
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Inside the List OM'S LAW: To the extent that Buddhism encourages its practitioners to cast aside the self on their way to enlightenment, it can seem like a fool's errand.
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"They told me it was a quixotic fool's errand," he recalled, and that he'd never recover enough from a small operation like a carwash to make it worth his time.
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A skeptic might correctly point out that there's still much to discover about how the brain works, and then conclude it a fool's errand to hook it up to a machine.
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"Predicting turnout this far in advance of an election is a fool's errand," said campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany, noting that there's no sure way to know which voters will turn out.
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It would be a fool's errand to attempt to untangle the threads of a dense, layered Solange record mere hours after it fluttered into the world, so I'll keep it brief.
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However, when the list of major oil exporters include Russia, Iran, and Venezuela, just to name a few, counting on long-term stability in the oil market is a fool's errand.
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Transmission efforts (collectively known as Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligences, or METI) have been criticized by many in the SETI community as a fool's errand at best and an existential threat at worst.
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Predicting a 10-year roll-out is a fool's errand and getting locked into a fixed contract will result in a deployment that could be out of date within two years.
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"We came to realize that good-faith efforts to meet accommodation — with many different stakeholders involved — can be a fool's errand when political motivation overrides the rule of law," Mahmoud said.
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This was not war in the conventional sense of the term, but it was the ultimate reason the British Army was destined to discover that it was on a fool's errand.
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Of course, savers shouldn't peg a Roth-conversion decision solely to stock-market gyrations — doing so would be like trying to time the market, which is a fool's errand, experts said.
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Tommy Chong says banning flavored vapes is a fool's errand, and the proper response to the recent spate of deaths has been right in front of us the whole time ... marijuana!!!
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"It would be a fool's errand to pass such legislation which would directly conflict with the core campaign promises of President Trump to regain control of our border and immigration system."
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Perhaps only someone touched by the terror that is the Kim regime could provide the only actionable advice to the leader of the free world: trusting a tyrant is a fool's errand.
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And since no two pundits can agree on what went wrong for him in 2015, trying to read training-camp tea leaves to see if everything is fixed is a fool's errand.
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While the prospect of a constitutional amendment is mostly a fool's errand, I think in the area of guns, it might be one of those areas that such an amendment could happen.
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"I would say that multi-touch attribution, for nine out of the 10 brands that we see, is a fool's errand because it measures such a small percentage of media," he said.
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The best dialogue that we could have as a country would be how to stop sending our men and women in harm's way on what has proved to be a fool's errand.
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As one might imagine, trying to accomplish all of these things simultaneously is a fool's errand, and, as a result, Modern Warfare has a hard time being much of anything at all.
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Of course, prognosticating anyone's future is a fool's errand in the current administration, but looking at which Cabinet secretaries have been fired and why could provide a guide to Pruitt's fortunes under Trump.
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Working out a rationale within the British system of VAT is a fool's errand; products that enjoy the reduced rates are meant to be necessities, but the definition of a necessity is loose.
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Political expediency and driving up base support may seem like a politician's tonic in the modern age of social media, but it is nothing more than a fool's errand that benefits no one.
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The search for a big philosophic explanation for everything is a fool's errand, but we can gradually add to the practical wisdom of our species, and work out better ways to do things.
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The essence of the industry's complaint is that the idea of segregating securities in a portfolio on the basis of how many days it would take to sell them is a fool's errand.
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Moreover, and this is the critical mistake this article makes, the previous generation of web technologies (from Google forward) all uncritically tried to solve social and political problems with technology, a fool's errand.
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" He said he is always looking for where meaning can be found and how to define it, but he often comes to the realization that this attempt is "kind of a fool's errand.
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Mr. Cruz plainly paid a price for his derisive comments in the past about "New York values," and those remarks may have made the state a fool's errand for him from the start.
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"If he has any grasp of scientific and legal reality, he would realize that it's a fool's errand to reverse the endangerment determination," said David Doniger, climate director for the Natural Resources Defense Counsel.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, brushing off new comments by Robert Mueller and 2020 Democratic hopefuls, feels as strongly as ever that impeaching President Trump would be a "fool's errand," a top ally told Axios.
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If Trump is intent on a near-term tensions truce and a longer-term nuclear negotiation, he must convince the Supreme Leader that taking a chance on the US, again, isn't a fool's errand.
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"Spirit pilots are not prepared to embark on the fool's errand of accepting substandard pay and retirement based on the unenforceable hypothesis that the Company may grow more quickly," Morrison said in a statement.
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It is a fool's errand to predict what will happen in the future, but it is a near certainty that the events that await us will seem unthinkable in foresight, and inevitable in hindsight.
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The United States' well-remembered history of meddling in Iranian politics; our extensive and costly military interventions already underway across the greater Mideast; and Iran's size and wealth all make invasion a fool's errand.
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As I recall all too well from my dating days, waiting for a man to change is a fool's errand, but in the case of Mr. Trump, it may be the fools' only choice.
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What I did know — why I advised people to sit tight — is that it's a fool's errand to time markets based on transient events, whether these are major political upsets or surprising economic news.
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So, trying to beat a radical right-wing populist insurgency by becoming one — or for that matter, by adopting its agenda and even inviting it into government — turns out to be a fool's errand.
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That history suggests that Beijing's leaders are on what former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton once called a "fool's errand": trying to uphold a system of government that cannot survive in the modern era.
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Projecting adult success onto any 2000-year-old is a fool's errand, of course; hyped young athletes across all sports, both boys and girls, regularly fail as they travel seemingly preordained paths to stardom.
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This is not to say that the NBA should try to do something about this, and not just because Managing Parity is a fool's errand best left to the butterfingered managerial authoritarians of the NFL.
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To be fair, this probably would've been a fool's errand anyway, since it's hard to imagine that an open-source community around Edge would've made much of a difference in solving the practical problems anyway.
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Veteran Republicans, however, see Trump's Fairfield, Connecticut, campaign stop ares a fool's errand -- a prime example of what many worry is a political operation that takes Trump's proclivity for defying convention a step too far.
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While it is often a fool's errand to predict the timing, size and consequences of a geo-political crisis, it does appear that the risks of one, or more, may be on the event horizon.
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Markets dropped Friday on the solid jobs report — which reduced the likelihood of a Fed rate cut — and it would be a fool's errand to predict markets will definitively grow between now and November 220006.
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" Obama called it a fool's errand to make "blanket promises to their base that it can't possibly meet," including "union bashing or corporate bashing without acknowledging that both workers and businesses make our economy run.
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Rosenberg is not one of them, saying "it's a fool's errand" to call an end to the bond bull because the drop in prices — and accompanying rise in yields — may not be here to stay.
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Any attempt to connect the dots -- from a policy or strategic perspective -- between yesterday and today or even from month to month -- is a fool's errand; Trump does what he wants, generally speaking, every day.
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Other analysts, like Greenstein, think it's a fool's errand to do what Ryan is demanding, and evaluate the program reforms Ryan has put forward outside of the massive cuts that he and his allies clearly favor.
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When they spent money in the Wisconsin and Michigan in 2016 and sent their candidate there, many thought it was a fool's errand, until Trump turned those states red for the first time in a generation.
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Expecting responsibility from Trump is a fool's errand, but others should reflect on the precedent and message they are sending to Russia or others that would use these methods to attack the foundations of our democracy.
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Of course, trying to plumb these statements for actual commitments is a fool's errand, since ISPs have a long history of lying, throttling applications they claim consume too much bandwidth, or blocking competitors and things like BitTorrent.
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Assigning rhyme or reason to the location choice in a way that makes it possible to predict where it'll hit next seems like a fool's errand at this point, but some interesting fan theories have popped up.
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ANTI is so jam-packed with incredible songs (the record took two years to make, and came out four years after Rihanna's previous album, 2012's Unapolagetic) it would be a fool's errand to try to choose.
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Explaining why the stock market does what it does is largely a fool's errand; a former colleague used to say that the only inference from a rising stock market was that there were more buyers than sellers.
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All: 5-10% Jon and Dany -- After eight seasons, it's probably a fool's errand to believe that anyone at any time in this savage, volatile land is "off the table" when it comes to violent, untimely death.
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Photo by Lester Cohen/WireImage/Getty Enshrining popular music—an art form based on youth and rebellion, on evading the rule-makers while on the hunt for what's next—might be a bit of a fool's errand.
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They worry that Mr. Sanders, as president, would exhaust his political capital on what they call a fool's errand, at the expense of other initiatives on education, infrastructure, climate change, worker benefits — and the Affordable Care Act itself.
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" Kirk Hartman, president and global chief investment officer at Wells Fargo Asset Management, said playing today's market was all but a fool's errand: "I think if you try to trade this market, it's an opportunity to lose money.
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The mystical and poignant folk harmonies of Fleet Foxes reach a stirring apex on "Fool's Errand," one of the best tracks on the band's latest album, "Crack-Up," and one of the most affecting in the group's catalog.
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In other words, the Clinton campaign and its top allies are running a fool's errand trying to make the American people feel worse about a threat they don't really know that much about and probably don't want to.
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"Ultimately, this is a fool's errand, because the government fails to address the major economic issues facing Venezuela, " said Jason Marczak, director of the Latin America Economic Growth Initiative at the Atlantic Council's Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center.
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To try to predict violent behavior in individuals is a fool's errand, since when and how violence occurs is almost accidental, depending largely on situational factors, state of mind, social support, the immediate environment and access to weapons.
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Nah. It'll bring back a chunk of players who dropped off because they ran out of things to do, for sure — but striving for that same degree of ubiquitous and game-breaking popularity would be a fool's errand.
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Getting phone manufacturers to build this fairly expensive functionality into their products was a fool's errand for Google, which only succeeded in getting the Tango platform running on a few gimmicky devices over the course of three years.
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While guessing how the app and its uses will evolve in the future is a fool's errand, the current protocols and functionality of Instagram have turned the platform into the perfect breeding ground for these types of internet users.
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Much has changed since then: The show's fourth and final season, which comes to a close Thursday night, has focused largely on the idea that sorting humans into a "good place" and a "bad place" is a fool's errand.
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In that sense, it feels like a fool's errand to rely on Byton alone to say whether we should put tech like this in our vehicles when that's really the kind of question we'd be better off answering ourselves.
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It's basically a fool's errand to determine what's going on in Trump's head that he keeps on trying to make that happen, but we're all going to have to live in a world shaped by the consequences of his actions.
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Speculating on the lifetime sales of something like the PS4 at this point is a fool's errand because there's a good chance the next wave of console announcements disrupts what we've traditionally come to expect from new PlayStation and Xbox reveals.
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In fact, the broker responsible for selling 4,400 tickets per show for 20 dates of the tour wasn't able to sell them all, and attempted to keep much of the slim profit for himself as recompense for a fool's errand.
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"There's a pool of theatergoers in the tristate area — some people say it's 300,000 or so, but it's obviously kind of a fool's errand to put a number on it — who have shown an affinity for seeing plays," Mr. Greenwald said.
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Over the past week or so, chief market strategists at BMO, Oppenheimer and Canaccord Genuity have all suspended their year-end targets on the S&P 2500, blaming the unprecedented economic uncertainty that makes projecting the market a fool's errand.
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Trying to get a child to sit on a hard desk chair for six to eight hours a day is a fool's errand, so offer at least a couple of choices — a desk chair, for example, along with floor pillows.
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But the movie remains so associated with Linda Blair's head spinning around, as the possessed 12-year-old Regan she is playing battles a demon within, that it seems a fool's errand to transcribe this particular title to the stage.
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I know that it is a fool's errand to try to convince these people that honesty, valor and character are fundamental requirements of the American presidency, and when they are lost from the office, the country itself is in peril.
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His challengers were all defeated in their last races and have little to lose in taking on what appears to be a fool's errand: challenging a president whose approval rating in his own party ranks consistently in the high 80s.
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You had Harry Reid go to the unusual length of having Bernie Sanders putting out a "unity statement" the night before the convention — it was a fool's errand, but it was a sign they knew something was going to happen.
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"If you are actively trading, you can't worry about what the market might or might not do because that is totally out of our hands and trying to predict it on a day-to-day basis is really a fool's errand," Batnick said.
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Predicting what Trump is going to do is a fool's errand, but there's reason to believe he will push for greater cooperation in the fight against ISIS—and perhaps even make a (rather convoluted) deal to firm up a unified strategy in Syria.
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Samantha Vinograd: Summit as a new model for dictators While we wait for the history books to mark whether this was another's "eyes wide shut" fool's errand -- or a historic breakthrough toward increased stability and nonproliferation, we know one thing for sure.
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After the months of negotiation to repeal and replace ObamaCare with a simple majority vote in the Senate failed this summer, trying to do so again in an election year with a smaller GOP majority strikes many Republicans as a fool's errand.
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Getting into whether or not they do or do not move the weights they say they do is a fool's errand, but it's always cool to meet someone who's got a legitimate story to tell and a banging aesthetic to drape it in.
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Whatever motivated him – and, honestly, it's a fool's errand to work out what motivate Tyson Fury – it is a recorded fact that he bought a round of drinks for England fans in France ahead of the Three Lions' Euro 2016 clash with Iceland.
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And while trying to predict a recession is as much of a fool's errand as, well, trying to predict the end of a government shutdown, the thinking is to get the company onto the markets now before the IPO window closes for good.
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Artwork by Grimoire Trying to navigate all the speculating, cryptic messaging, spotty reporting, and lurid insinuations that have flooded the Internet since UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor announced to the world yesterday that he has "decided to retire young" is a fool's errand.
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Republicans contend that Democrats are on a fool's errand to try to change the fundamental DNA of these districts — that whatever might have happened in 2016, when these districts voted to elect Hillary Clinton and also their Republican House representatives, these are Republican strongholds.
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In 2011, Clinton said China was on a "fool's errand" to try to halt the march of freedom, while in 2012 she was deeply involved in efforts to get blind dissident Chen Guangcheng out of China after he fled to the U.S. embassy in Beijing.
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It's a fool's errand to search for method in Donald Trump's campaign tactics, but if you were tasked with ascribing method to his behavior in recent weeks, you'd have to conclude his aim is to further divide his own party and unite the opposition.
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While it's true that video game storytelling has come a long way since these 90s relics, both games recognized that FMV sequences were not the equivalent of a Hollywood production, so instilling them with drama or gravitas was difficult, if not a fool's errand.
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Most media watchers at the time suggested that taking on CNN would be a fool's errand, not to mention a giant waste of money — not that Rupert Murdock didn't have plenty of it sloshing around, especially after the success of the film "Titanic" in 1997.
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For people who live in cities where gun violence is not some incomprehensible abstraction in the news but a heart-shattering reality in their community, trying to ban assault weapons increasingly seems like a fool's errand—or at least a waste of political capital.
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In the memoir, titled "A Fool's Errand: Creating the National Museum of African American History and Culture in the Age of Bush, Obama and Trump," Bunch reportedly wrote that Trump's team reached out to the museum to arrange a tour for the then-president-elect.
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To do so, Lang bought a sprawling former cattle farm in 2001 and set about on what appeared to be a fool's errand: to bring the golf world to a windswept public course on a two-lane country road in the small hamlet of Erin.
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Sorting through all the revelations in "The Well-Tempered Clavier" on one viewing is a fool's errand for your humble recapper, given the multiple timelines, the tricks of memory, the Arnold unveilings and the other narrative loop-de-loops attempted in this bewildering hour.
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The search for ideas that could improve the economic conditions of deprived areas, long derided by economists as a fool's errand — why spend money on improving the lot of places rather than people, many experts argued — is now at the top of policymakers' lists.
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A big part of the underlying reason is that China is still very much an autocratic nation with a strong central government that is attempting to manage both large and small aspects of the economy, an ambition any central banker would tell you is a fool's errand.
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Predicting who will slip from cultural memory and who will be enshrined in it is a fool's errand, but if justice prevails the reputation of Joan Wasser, one of the outstanding musical artists of the 21st century, will surpass that of many of her more famous contemporaries.
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And with all due respect to Breslin, whom I loved in Little Miss Sunshine — another film I wouldn't dare have remade — and this Prattes guy, who seems to have legit dance skills, trying to ape Jennifer Grey and Patrick Swayze's on-screen chemistry is a fool's errand.
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"While the Assad regime, together with Russia, Iran and their proxies, has slaughtered Syrians with impunity and changed the military facts on the ground, the administration has been on a fool's errand pleading with Vladimir Putin to negotiate a political solution to the very hostilities he perpetuates," McCain said.
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John McCainJohn Sidney McCainMcCain's family, McCain Institute to promote #ActsOfCivility in marking first anniversary of senator's death Arizona poll shows Kelly overtaking McSally 3 real problems Republicans need to address to win in 2020 MORE (R-Ariz.) at the time called the shutdown a "fool's errand," while Sen.
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Given that AT&T and Verizon have both spent over $100 billion on building up their own networks in the past decade and that networks need to be open to work economically, "achieving competitive advantage in an adjacent business on the basis of one's network is a fool's errand," they wrote.
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Predicting what's going to happen when perhaps the most unhinged mainstream presidential candidate sits behind a keyboard and preaches to his most fervent fans is probably a fool's errand, but given what we know about Trump and about the r/the_donald subreddit, we can at least make a few guesses.
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When Chen took over the company in November 2013, it seemed he was on a fool's errand trying to save a company that had little chance in the handset market, but one thing the company had was some cash on hand from its glory days as a popular handset maker.
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In an interview, Mr. Reid said he doubted he could have ever persuaded his fellow Democrats to go on a "fool's errand" such as stonewalling the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Merrick B. Garland, refusing to schedule hearings and in multiple cases deciding against even a courtesy meeting with the nominee.
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" Semantic arguments are generally a fool's errand, but I think we can all get on board with the idea that after you have long since watched "one mistake" disappear in the rearview mirror as you continue on to "sociopathic thing you did that you now regret because you got caught.
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The plain fact is that the noisy group that goes by the blandly inane moniker of the Freedom Caucus was never on the team to begin with — neither Team GOP, nor Team Trump — and it's becoming more and more apparent that it's a fool's errand to get caucus members to join.
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Trying to find some kind of 9/11 message in every early-00s album is a fool's errand; at the same time, how could a song title like "And You're Wondering How a Top Floor Could Replace Heaven"—the name of City of Caterpillar's opening track—not resonate that way?
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"It was important for the president to build this massive operation for his re-election to demonstrate that it would be a fool's errand for anyone inside the party to try to primary him, and because we don't know what's going to happen in the House with a possible impeachment," Mr. Nunberg said.
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This convinced many Republicans that pursuing centrism is a fool's errand, and the subsequent losses of candidates like McCain and Romney, who were both distrusted by conservative activists, have only strengthened the belief among Republican elites that they win when they nominate conservatives, and lose when they nominate moderates, spurious though the claim may be.
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Letters To the Editor: Re "Moving On From Farm and Factory" (Economic Scene column, April 27): Eduardo Porter's article on the futility of trying to bring back manufacturing jobs to the United States from abroad makes it clear that our presidential candidates are embarking on a fool's errand when they claim they can do it.
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That is, officials had halted him in the middle of his run, because the previous racer had fallen and was still on the course, which meant that Maple had to be helicoptered back to the start to begin again—a fool's errand, as his adrenaline, strength, and ski prep were by then all basically shot.
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But eventually you start to realize that breaking down which elements of the show are thanks to which of its co-creators is a fool's errand, because Poehler is just as willing to tell a dark joke, and Headland's terrific Sleeping with Other People is one of the most beautifully optimistic rom-coms of the decade.
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It's a robust life simulator, sure, but there isn't monthly rent, student loan debts, a shared laundry room, lack of parking on a busy Los Angeles street, parking tickets, childhood trauma, emotional baggage, fear of intimacy, or any of the other countless human variables that can make building a lasting relationship feel like a fool's errand.
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Perhaps it's a fool's errand to expect more from the candidate who consistently demonstrates that he doesn't value women as anything more than trophies, but by shutting women and people of color out of positions of power he excludes from his team points of view that reflect more than half of our country's population and the very people who most need a voice.
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In the tight community of bibliophiles and antique book dealers, the theft is viewed not as an audacious heist, but as something of a fool's errand: Whenever books are stolen, the antique book world springs into action, activating informal email trees to alert sellers, libraries and book lovers of the stolen titles and employing the aid of databases that log every pilfered text.
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As with any such amorphous, non-state actor, it would be a fool's errand to predict when ISIS will cease to be a major player in Mideast chaos, and with about a third of Mosul and all of Raqqa still in the terrorist group's hands, it is far too soon to declare this chapter of the war on terror complete.
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While both suspects in the mailing of bombs nationwide and the murders in Pittsburgh were caught alive and are therefore able to be examined and questioned -- perhaps leading to some understanding of how they got to the point of wanting to kill others -- it may ultimately be a fool's errand for rational human beings to seek to understand the irrational mind.
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Republican senators say there are no grounds to impeach Trump and are daring Speaker Nancy PelosiNancy PelosiWhistleblower complaint declassified on eve of high-stakes testimony Ocasio-Cortez on impeachment: 'I think the ground has shifted' Democrats ask Pentagon to probe delayed Ukraine aid MORE (D-Calif.) to embark on what they dismiss as a fool's errand that will turn off swing voters.
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Because what Don gave NBA coaching that every dorky college coach in the world never could was a fucking rebel's spirit, and an understanding that basketball, while it fucking rules, is not the end all and be all of life, that recruiting is fucking stupid, that working day and night to make the thing perfect is a fool's errand, that trusting your player to make decent decisions and trusting the broad scope of your vision to guide them into something awesome (or, occasionally, terrible), was way better than bleeding and dying moment by moment.
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