Sentences with phrase «is next to useless»

For many, Cortana is next to useless unless you first switch it to US.
In this high - pressure, high - stakes situation, a survey is next to useless.
Neither does generation cost tell the whole story because PV is next to useless most of the time in northern Europe.
Obama is a next to useless US president (in the same socialist mold as Australia's last two prime Ministers, Kevin Rudd and Juila Gillard), so USA and the world will have to wait and hope the US voters makes a wiser choice next time.
Clearly, without such meta data, the temperature record of this site is next to useless after the 1960s.
Trusted advisers and role models have shown us that education without a greater emotional context — without community, purpose, and wonder — is next to useless, and often a detriment to society and the environment.
Speculation is next to useless.
It's a sentiment many people can relate to, for all the money in the world is next to useless if you don't have time to enjoy the opportunities that wealth can provide.
For such an event driven investment, this type of hedge is next to useless, an unnecessary cost, and may in fact lose money (with no corresponding offset).
Sat nav is next to useless - maps are outdated.
A bare mark of 6 out of 10 with a comment along the lines of «good» is next to useless in providing guidance for improvement and in answering those four key questions.
There is also a stills gallery, which is next to useless anyway unless you are an animation film.
The only thing is the mat provided is next to useless.
What a disaster this would be to put falling down Jack in this position, he is next to useless at tackling and spends more time on his ass, we need a defending colossus not a little boy FFS Wonger say its no so.
A week off is next to useless.
His 2nd striker Sanogo is next to useless and neither did Wenger turn to the other strikers Campbell or Podolski??? Instead he splashed 16 mill on a donkey — Wellbeck.
Walcott is next to useless up front and he's probably our best option for counter.
A draw is next to useless for his side.
He's talented and arrogant and is more capable of scoring in big games but EVERY time I watch France play he's next to useless.
The problem as I see it is that Arsenal keep so many salary guzzling injury prone players who are next to useless.
He was next to useless from a defensive stand point, and drifted in and out so much it became hard to watch.
The performances are next to useless and our football is boring to watch.
Perform just one weak measurement on one particle and your results are next to useless.
Low quality probiotics are next to useless.
Halle Berry was next to useless in the film as well as Anna Paquin, who was like billed fifth yet had about five seconds of screen time and no lines.
The ventilation louvers in the rear window mean I can't see out the back whatsoever, and the tiny outside mirrors are next to useless.
The thinly padded bucket seats in our test car lacked support in all areas, and the headrest was next to useless.
The Cabriolet does have rear seats, but they are next to useless.
These are not edits and are next to useless for writers looking to self - publish.
They're very similar to Darwin's goggles in a lot of ways (and I'm sure he would have found them comfortable to wear), but they differ in that they are next to useless when looking at animals and plants.
Which was next to useless for me.
The addition of a battery, NFC Bluetooth, Wi - Fi functionality, front - lighting like that of the Kindle Paperwhite - as otherwise the watch would be next to useless in the dark - are all things that could be added to make up for a more complete device, among plenty of other ideas.
starting with «DMG» — Sharp was approached to manufacture the screens of the DMG because it already supplied the Game & Watch displays — Sharp was unable to produce the screens at a price low enough for Nintendo so that development of the console reached a dead point — R&D 1 learned about the «Chip on Glass» technique which would make a cheap production possible and approached TV maker Citizen to produce the Game Boy's screens using this technique — in the end, Sharp was also able to use the CoG technique and was thus chosen to produce the screens and made a four billion yen investment for that — the screens Sharp produced at the beginning were of a wrong type and were next to useless for the Game Boy project — Yokoi remembers Hiroshi Yamauchi's reaction on Game Boy prototype with wrong screen type: «What the hell is this?
These elements all work together cohesively, no doubts there — the hidey - holes would be next to useless if guards could actually investigate them, given that they're nearly always breathing down your neck — but the experience they cooperate towards is so binary and one - dimensional that for a while it actually threw me.
Sure, that would make a little sense, but if I have the Wii U version, the Wii version would be next to useless for me.
This makes the important point that extrapolation can be next to useless for predicting the future.
Tackling light bulbs, energy efficiency and renewable energy are next to useless policies.
As the chart clearly shows, while coal stepped up to the plate to meet energy demand during the winter freeze, wind power was next to useless.

Not exact matches

Everyone knows that five - year budget forecasts are virtually useless, which is why everyone is expecting that the next budget is going to be the really tough one.
Georgia Congressman Tom Price has been cleared as the next Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services after an ugly confirmation battle which included Senate Democrats boycotting his vote by a key panel (a tactic that was rendered useless as the majority Republicans changed committee rules to push his nomination forward).
However, there aren't any major U.S. carriers on the list, making this feature next to useless for frequent domestic flyers.
Yet all these things are well taken cared of for God Who is and will always be a God Who give justice to all and in everything, we will just eventually stop and realize that all the things we fought for and thought to be good for us are all passing, even this earthly life is but temporal, all that we are treasuring on earth are but temporal and passing, our health, our riches, our achievements, these are all useless in the next life.
Because, obviously, it is useless to answer a question that will be asked again the next day by you.
And none of us will understand the whole truth until we pass from the physical / relative world to the next one, which is why all of these arguments are useless.
If he wins the next general election we may as well give the United States to Russia and China because he will weaken the economy to the point we will be useless internationally.He is trying every shady deal he can to try and cover his stimulus failures.
What we may be given to do in the next life we can not say, and with so many forms of work in this life related to physical existence, it is useless to speculate.
This the so called atheist has chosen for themselves, they are unwanted and useless to this world and the next.
If Wenger is still at Arsenal next season, it would be useless to have Aubameyang, Lacazette, Ozil, Mkhitaryan and Xhaka in the squad.
A year ago there wasn't a single Gooner in the world that would have sold Ramsey for less than # 50M and a month in to the next season he is disposable and useless.
off Topic (as this topic is of no importance in this grieving moment)...... Ok, the BFG or what ever u call him, have just proven his irrelevance to this team (wasted heights, useless in duels), misfiring carzola was let 2 continue, ramsey wasnt himself yet was forced 2 play, monreal will never be a dream CB, 80th minute subs as usual (then players are played outta position), Wenger Loves his coat and zippers more than the team, who's next?
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