Usage examples of "purposeless" in English with translation to Russian

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The EU also pushes Washington to undertake a plethora of missions irrelevant to U.S. security, such as foolish nation-building in the Balkans and a purposeless war against Libya. ЕС также подталкивает Вашингтон к осуществлению многочисленных миссий, не имеющих отношения к американской безопасности. Это и глупая затея с государственным строительством на Балканах, и бесцельная война против Ливии.
“We now have three options: to expand the war and fight far more than we have fought in the last four years, to capitulate and be slaughtered, or to disperse throughout the world, walking humiliated and purposeless from catastrophe to catastrophe.” ? В настоящее время у нас существует лишь три варианта выхода из сложившейся ситуации: расширить войну и сражаться больше, чем мы делали это на протяжении последних четырех лет, капитулировать и быть безжалостно убитыми или расселиться по всему миру, переходя бесцельно от катастрофы к катастрофе и терпя при этом унижения».
Bulldozers have destroyed homes in a purposeless manner and have savagely dug up roads, including electricity, sewage and water lines. Бульдозеры бессмысленно разрушали дома и варварски перекапывали дороги, нарушая, в частности, линии электропередачи, канализации и водоснабжения.
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