What holds the bonuses back, ever so slightly, is the short availability and
the diminishing usefulness of the rewards.
«This potential mismatch in timing could significantly
diminish the usefulness of vaccination for mitigating the epidemic and could place many at risk of serious disease,» predicted the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in a report the White House released on 24 August.
But it also
diminishes the usefulness of owning a 3G - connected watch.
Not exact matches
Modest horsepower and acceleration;
usefulness of available Entune system is
diminished by a cumbersome setup process.
No engine upgrade option;
usefulness of available Entune smartphone features is
diminished by cumbersome setup process.
Treading a fine line so as to avoid upsetting the radio partisans, Sarnoff indicated that «while television promises to supplement the present service
of broadcasting by adding sight to sound, it will not supplant or
diminish the importance and
usefulness of sound broadcasting.»
Now that user comments and ratings are a much bigger part
of every digital storefront, the
usefulness of demos has
diminished.
The Mega Buster
of Mega Man 4 already
diminished much
of the
usefulness in the Robot Master powers, but here they are an outright afterthought between the Mega Buster and the Rush transformations.
Following this approach to its conclusion would perhaps show that the observed temperature trends were within the (lower) range
of the trends, over extended periods
of time, as determined from the models, but that the model range was so wide that its
usefulness in making policy and predictions would be greatly
diminished.
The authors
of this blog rightly identify various controversies and uncertainties around estimating the SCC that
diminish its
usefulness from a policy perspective.