Whether this is a blind alley for senior power, or represents a road to real influence, remains to be seen.
On occasions the cross-referencing is circular or leads down a blind alley.
However, it has also on occasion led mathematical research up a blind alley.
The concentration on vocabulary acquisition proved to be a blind alley.
This explains why young wage-earners entered 'blind alley' - but well-paid - employment, a trend highlighted in chapter three of this book.
The separation of anxiety and depressive disorders : blind alley in psychopharmacology and the classification of disease.
But the clause being considered will lead us into an expensive and ineffective blind alley.
So let us not go down that blind alley.