misses the point

Challenging reports that highlighted limited progress at last month's summit in Washington, he said: "This . . . misses the point. "

From the Palestinian perspective, the scurrying for archaeological evidence to justify a people's sense of belonging misses the point.

All this talk about how we need to "discover a new form of energy" therefore misses the point: we've already done so.

Arguably, all this focus on derivatives and risk models ultimately misses the point.

The second misses the point: at home, you know which neighbourhoods are rough and who the troublemakers might be.

With this wedding, the public's relationship with the royals has changed. Tim de Lisle explains why most of the coverage misses the point .

Delano throughout misses the point of what he is seeing. Did Melville expect the reader to miss the point as well ?

Mostly at this point I just avoid them, but that solution misses the point, because then I'm not being authentic, either.

Classifying them as " true " or " false " misses the point and shows a lack of respect for the child.

However (as you can probably tell from the story above) this completely misses the point!

Yet focusing on the military deficiencies of China's new aircraft carrier completely misses the point of its development.

Yet not everyone is a fan of the decoupling thesis. Andy Rothman, China macro strategist with CLSA in Shanghai, says it misses the point.

Cuban misses the point entirely, assuming that the audience will behave as it always has.

I think this sort of misses the point.

"I think the [Australia] decoupling [from the rest of the developed world] story misses the point, " she says.

To propose mending such a system by raising the highest marginal rate misses the point.

This whole messing round with 'acceptable' glyphosate levels misses the point totally in the presence of body sinks for glyphosate.

But a blinkered focus on explicit real estate exposures misses the point.

Claiming something is true misses the point , while presenting verifiable fact proves its correctness .

But this view completely misses the point: "Apps are not about technology, they are about a business model" as Owen Stephens pointed out.

The spat between Standard & Poor's and the US Treasury over accounting numbers similarly misses the point.

At some level, this critique is simply irrelevant to writing; it profoundly misses the point.

The suggestion that Beijing might widen the renminbi's daily trading band also misses the point.

Mr Cameron has been mocked for his crisis management, but this misses the point.

All this misses the point: there are too many people for the Earth's fragile ecosystems.

Talk of competition between London, Paris and Frankfurt misses the point.

Criticism that Moore played fast and loose with his facts misses the point.

Economists in Asia say the debate about gross domestic product misses the point.

But the argument that these projects would make better use of China's reserves than simply purchasing U. S. Treasuries misses the point.

While my industry has quibbled about its true size ever since, this misses the point.

America's emphasis on exports misses the point about China's economic power.

Dividing securities according to their geographic location increasingly misses the point.

The pundit's favorite issue, of 'who wins, ' China or India, misses the point.

But Maurits van Rooijen, rector at Nyenrode, says this misses the point about business school.

But this debate, though it is pushing down share prices, misses the point.

That misses the point completely.

These studies show that a proposed reference dose misses the point totally.

But Levy says that misses the point.

That misses the point.

But that kind of approach misses the point of 2. 0.

In others, we are stronger, but to me it seems that in this day and age to argue who is the stronger completely misses the point.

For us to argue who is the stronger misses the point.

But what Wednesday's release shows is that this focus on the "obvious" bail-outs misses the point;

IMF's criticism of Britain's fiscal stimulus package misses the point