Sentences with phrase «do useful things»

You can still select multiple tiles and now you can do useful things to all the tiles you have selected at once.

Like the IRC chat of old, Discord comes with a set of slash commands that you can use to express yourself or do useful things like search for GIFs or read text aloud.

While, say, wasting wind power doesn't create more pollution, the opportunity cost is real, and the wasted energy won't go to displace polluting one, or won't be used to do useful things.

What college used to be is a place that taught people skills to be successful so that they could do useful things for the rest of their lives.

Interesting how people from the private sector do useful things for humanity (Google, Gates, etc.) while their high profile counterparts in the public sector waste everyone's time and money being hysterical about neurotic fears and schemes.

Most, if not all, websites do this, because cookies allow the website publisher to do useful things like find out whether the computer (and probably its user) has visited the site before.

I've looked at the Nook Color and the Galaxy, and both are quite large enough to do useful things with.

There were no questions demanding a depth of knowledge that would enable «people to show that they know how to do useful things with what they know.»

Many websites do this because cookies enable website publishers to do useful things like find out whether your device (and probably you) has visited the website before.

«Apple needs to get developers to write small apps that can be invoked instantaneously that do useful things for consumers,» said Greengart.

Electric bacteria could have practical uses here on Earth, however, such as creating biomachines that do useful things like clean up sewage or contaminated groundwater while drawing their own power from their surroundings.

«You can do useful things with cast - off equipment,» Aull says.

Electric bacteria could have practical uses here on Earth, however, such as creating self - powered biomachines that do useful things like cleaning up sewage or contaminated groundwater while drawing their own power from their surroundings.

Cookies also allow us to do useful things; for example, cookies allow us to find out whether you have visited the Site previously.

Mother did not do the cooking for the family, but she kept busy doing useful things.

Many who were once left in almost complete inactivity are now living useful lives, doing useful things.

Ok — he didn't look his normal energetic self today, but he was still doing useful things.

«I spent five years of working, doing useful things, and I hope the public will offer me an opportunity.»

Not exact matches

One of the most useful things to do when thinking about gun control and its controversial place in American society is to consider other countries and their relationship to guns and gun crime.

In order to have dots to connect, you need to be willing to try new things — even if they don't seem immediately useful or productive.

So how does one identify a narcissist, and what are some useful things to know about this particular personality type in terms of a working relationship?

CTK's software, developed specifically for nonprofits and easily modifiable by nontechies, can do many such useful things.

If certain things from the list don't come up during the conversation, it might be useful to think about how you can up your personal standards in those areas.

That's why things like done lists can be so useful.

Google has shifted its focus too and no longer sells Glass to consumers, who found few useful things to do with the devices.

«These are all things that people have bought in the past, and driven to completely irrational prices, not because they did anything useful or produced any money and value to society, but solely because they thought they would be able to sell them to someone else for more in the future,» he writes.

As an investor in the next 10 years, I'm looking at who's doing things for blockchain government and who's doing things to make Bitcoin more useful?

Lewis had hoped the book would be inspiring, he said, and that IEX's example might encourage would - be Wall Streeters to stop worrying about getting their half - a-million-dollar bonus at age 23 and instead think «let's figure out some useful thing to do in the world that happens to be on Wall Street», he said.

Hey, guess what, I know what you are after and believe it or not I'm after the same exact thing, don't give me your BS about how great my work is or how your content is going to be useful to my readers.

Although most billionaires do not take this thing into account, having multiple brokerages can be quite useful.

The book offers useful examples of people that have done smart and stupid things along the way.

While no one would want to waste their money, and you can find it useful to do some research into the sales history of an artist, there's no need to overcomplicate things.

Crowdfunding platforms as interesting and useful as they are, do however present risks because there is no guarantee campaign supporters will get their funds back if and when things go wrong.

It may be somewhat useful to make comparisons to that period of time to see how certain interest rate sensitive asset classes such as junk bonds, REITs, dividend - paying stocks or bonds performed, but my guess is that particular environment doesn't do a great job of showing investors what a typical rising rate scenario would look like (assuming there is such a thing).

An education is a useful thing... Christmas has nothing to do with your imaginary friends illegitimate child... read on and open your closed mind: (http://www.livescience.com/25779-christmas-traditions-history-paganism.html)» Early Christians had a soft spot for pagans

Professor Derr admits that we must [treat] them with a responsible stewardship and that the things we do to them should be limited by «a realistic anthropocentrism, and inhere in decisions about what is useful and valuable to humanity.»

It seems like a useful thing you've just done — to list your fears.

But given the post-Benedict turbulence in the Church, which begins to resemble the chaos of the post-conciliar 1970s that Ratzinger rightly deplored (and did much to repair), it would have been useful to get some clearer answers from Last Testament about the months that led up to the papal transition of 2013 — and the reasons why things had come to such a state of affairs before Benedict XVI took the decision to step down.

We use the word «praise» with respect to people and things as well as with respect to God; so it is useful to start by recalling what praise is and does generally, leaving latent just now the application of praise to God.

Most people who wrote me positive things about my blog had already a progressive theology and found some of my ideas useful while disagreeing with others, like I did on their blogs.

And while the new «social history,» which wants to do history from the bottom up, has taught us many things, there are still occasions when great men do bend history's curve in a different direction; Liberating a Continent is also a useful reminder of that.

If breast feeding is to be okay in public, and to be okay in a church (which I am fine with, as it is the most useful thing a church is for), then mothers should have absolutely no problem with people looking at them while they do it.

But does this sort of thing add up to a useful book on leadership?

(2 Timothy 3:14) Learning is the most useful thing young leaders can do right now.

This book is about how we as Christians can live the gospel in a meaningful way in a world that has lost all sense of meaning:» In a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most useful thing a Christian can do is to live» (p. 77).

The best thing he can do is to carry on the work left unfinished, or do some useful work for others that otherwise would have been done in love for the person no longer present.

But where things said or done in the past have been disproved, or where they are not useful in new circumstances (save as a matter of historical awareness or of what might be styled archaeological interest), this fact will be acknowledged.

Henry VIII found a minister of great efficiency, Thomas Cromwell, driven by a twofold wish to rationalise and then close down or transform the religious houses, or to produce a useful adjunct of property and wealth to his sovereign, all things which he could see being done in the German lands.

Mindfulness and meditation can be really useful tools when physically you are less able to do things.

As a vegetarian, I didn't really find either of these particularly useful, but the recipe for a Madeira cake to be used as a base for several of the recipes and how to sterilise jars was more my thing.