Sentences with phrase «become useless at»

Insulin is a hormone that's highly prone to oxidation, and when it does, it becomes useless at stimulating glycogen store insulin receptors.

Not exact matches

Even with effective treatments, Kurilla says that medical experts are cautious about using them because they're concerned that viruses could mutate to become resistant to the antiviral, making them potentially useless at some future moment when they may be most needed.

Google's own tracking tool has had its ups and downs (to the point of becoming essentially useless at one time).

So at some foreseeable point miners not longer have an incentive to participate in transaction validation and this crap becomes useless.

Alas, it is only useless and unused when you will not let yourself be helped by it up to the highest — for perhaps you killed the wish and became spiritually like dead flesh that feels no pain, otherwise it is just at the point of the wish that the sufferer winces and that the Eternal comforts.

At the time this was probably rather useless genomic variation, but has now become incredibly beneficial millions of years later when the opportunity for major adaptive radiations arose, changing the way we think about evolutionary processes.»

Missions near the end of the game throw all - new challenges at the player; old strategies that players may take for granted can quickly become useless in the face of smarter, stronger, more situationally - aware enemies.

He doesn't quite successfully draw the lines between the two men, leaving a film that feels a bit shapeless at times, but it's still a startling look into a world where the traditional forces of crimefighting have become useless.

While it's more likely to be forgotten than to become a cult classic, it's an interesting and provocative character study of a town without much for its inhabitants to look forward to except to, like the trees, tear down the old and useless for a chance at a stronger new life.

Certain heroes who felt integral to the team are now peripheral members who were basically useless against Thanos, while other characters have become central to stopping the menacing new villain and, quite possibly, reversing the rapture - like event that occurs at the end of Infinity War.

Hopefully 2.2.2 will fixed the slowness on the iPad 3, at this point the application as become useless.

It's a nice device at first, but after a couple months, it becomes annoying and useless.

Health, on the other hand, is a tad different, because if it's reduced to zero the character becomes maimed, at which point they'll have only a single point of health and hefty penalties to both accuracy and defense, making them practically useless in combat.

With little in the way of special abilities at your disposal and enemies proving fairly challenging combat feels rewarding, but as you progress through the game and earn more abilities the standard attack becomes next to useless as abilities recharge so quickly and do so much damage that using anything else feels pointless.

As has become common these days, XP is rewarded for every kill and objective completed and will result in eventual level ups, often rewarding you even if you happen to be at the bottom of the scoreboard and making you feel a little less useless in the process, as well as giving you a sense of progression.

Making your way through a dungeon with ease, and immediately becoming useless in the next area soured me so heavily that I at times turned the game off completely.

The city of Toronto doesn't pull out the beet juice truck until it's at least -20 Celsius -LRB--4 Fahrenheit), at which point rock salt alone becomes useless.

Unlike the middle ground, where lower level marketing activities are still quite effective, at the high end, many lower level marketing activities become useless.

Unfortunately for real estate professionals, this asset, which is your ability to produce commissions, is at risk of becoming damaged and rendered useless if your health fails or you die.

Ultimately, a company could offer the best products on the market at the very best rates but this all becomes useless if 65 % of their customers have complained at some point.

My biggest issue with this (and every) Android Wear watch is that you get one day of battery life at most before that cool - looking smartwatch becomes a useless hunk of metal on your wrist.