Sentences with phrase «largely useless»

The Competition Bureau realizes that it is largely useless to encourage competition at the gas - pumps or in many other areas where prices are set and prices are all that matters — unlike hiring a real estate professional, where competence and ethics must clearly take precedence.

An applicant tracking system (ATS) can either be the tool that mires you down in a morass of largely useless information or

The coin devs have replied with a harsh statement on the discovery criticising it as «a largely useless observation.»

While the main goal is to create more screen real estate for the user, many view the notch more as an obstacle than an add - on, and find the small display strips to the sides of the notch (also known as «bunny ears» or «horns,» among other nicknames) largely useless.

Google Glass, which has a built - in Wi - Fi radio, is also largely useless without connectivity.»

I'd rather have the stock version with a lot less bloatware as Sony sees fit to include a lot of largely useless apps around the edges such as Kobo, Amazon or even its own Xperia Premium app to offer events.

BTW I was trying to link to some great conference materials that I was hoping to find from the Annual Meeting — but far too many of the sessions had no printed materials available, and those that did were largely useless PDFs of PowerPoint bullets... [more]

I find Twitter largely useless for generating clients.

But they are largely useless for tackling the main power challenges for the world's poor.»

He is discussing the best data to understand the lives of working artists, and points out that auction records are largely useless.

The ability to talk among party members in combat has been removed, but this was largely useless to begin with.

Grenades have been rendered largely useless when your enemy can simply slide or jump at ungodly speeds away from them, the maps hardly ever provide any opportunity to utilise tactical equipment and even when they do the enemy simply rushes past them along the wall.

The skill - trees in the TR Reboot were largely useless, I found.

That said, valuable space is still taken up by the largely useless BuzzNav news feature, so there's still room to improve.

We have to consider the fact that you start out most of your missions with only a staple (and largely useless) pistol, and your choice of weapons entirely depends on the random number generator wanting to give you a rocket launcher or (why not?)

Each of these 6 classes have a distinct role to the point where the player can feel largely useless controlling someone manually since the AI is quicker (no need to fumble through menus) and has few choices to make since once a class is chosen, what you should do with that class is usually obvious.

Yeah, it is largely useless to anyone who hasn't moved to digital only, and until they make an account where most people have full control (not tied to a system, which everything bought with the NNIDs still are, even if My Nintendo isn't) or force people, many will resume going physical.

The rogue's bow is also pretty effective, but the wizard is largely useless unless you upgrade him a little to allow him to trap enemies in cages, at which point you can merrily hurl them off cliffs and such.

It only marginally hindered my progress, and besides; the remote - controlled robot, a tool designed to allow you to speedily navigate the world in search of clues, was rendered largely useless purely by the size of the world.

Yet naval units seemed to be largely useless within the game as planets with sufficient amounts of water are a rare commodity.

Upon the removal of the online databases, these requirements became largely useless.

So technical analysis is largely useless to them.

There's a mountain of sales going to Indy authors who don't bother with an ISBN because they're a hassle, cost money and are largely useless.

The options list does offer extras such as web browsing, which are reasonably priced but largely useless.

There are interesting side - by - side storyboard / finished scene comparisons for the film's more visually complex sequences; a selection of rather understandably deleted scenes that can be viewed with commentary by director and producer as well as within the context of the film (albeit in rather cumbersome fashion); a largely useless montage of still photos from the production cut to a cue of John Murphy's score; the usual cast and crew filmographies and production notes; plus a full - frame version of the film to go with the nicely transferred anamorphic widescreen one.

Tatum's Jimmy Logan is an embodiment of an America that has fallen short of its promise to most people: A former high school football star who blew out his knee in college and is now largely useless to the masters of the universe, but for his ability to take commands in the service economy.

Once vitamin C supplementation was proven largely useless to prevent disease, the next great hope was vitamin E. Its main claim to glory was as an «antioxidant».

It seems simple enough, but it's a largely useless proposition without a plan.

Political Twitter followers are largely useless filler according to Obama's re-election architect

With arsenic forcing the production of largely useless telomerase in cell lines that simulate acute promyelocytic leukemia, the chromosomes in cancer cells fuse together, causing the cell death that helps fight the cancer.

It had been thought that Jeholornis only had feathers at the tip of its tail, spread out like a palm frond and largely useless for flight.

For example, there was the classic (and, in my experience, largely useless) question about how we each found our current jobs.

The mosquitoes that transmit the virus from person to person typically bite during the day, rendering mosquito nets largely useless.

Advocates who support a hard cap fear that if too many exemptions are included the measure would turn into the cap in place in New Jersey, which they consider largely useless.

My story began on a hot summer afternoon when horse and rider from the Kingston Police Department's much - celebrated but largely useless mounted patrol crossed a homeowner's lawn on Lipton Street off Albany Avenue and the horse acted naturally.

Pogba and Matuidi were largely useless, and Payet was carrying the entire squad.

In the coming week, the price of the NASDAQ could easily «undercut» the 4,050 to 4,100 area of support and bounce higher from near - term «oversold» conditions (though I think «overbought» and «oversold» are largely useless words).

As technology analyst Ben Thompson points out, Facebook is quite right when it says that most news sites load too slowly and look terrible, rendering the ads on those pages largely useless.

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Such was Paul's dynamic theology, and Erasmus had failed, so Luther judged, to understand on the one hand the relative dignity and goodness of the Law, on its own merits, and on the other the fact that in any case to keep it was useless, and indeed largely impossible for most men without Christ: «Fulfilment without faith in Christ, even if it creates men like Fabricius, Regulus and others [heroes of Roman history] who are wholly irreproachable in the sight of men — no more resembles righteousness than sorb apples resemble figs.»

On the other hand people who think wenger is useless are failed manager, ex-footbalkers with zero knowledge about football administration, sports journalists who manufacture news, and fans who are largely failures in their personal lives.

From 2012 it is largely populated by a matrix of zeros, so it means to a large extent, the carried interest in mining is virtually useless as far as Ghana is concerned because we are earning zero for it.»

Yes Labour have failed and most of their leading lights are fairly useless people but their voters have largely turned to us rather than the Lib Dems for which the leadership and CCHQ should be heartily congratulated.

How they become published is largely a matter of luck: as long as traditional publishers feed the market with ghost - written crap signed by some useless celebrity instead of nurturing real writing talent, the reading public will be ill - served by them.

It might seem like the PE ratio is very useful, but it's actually pretty useless as a measure used to make buy or sell decisions, and taken largely on its own, pretty useless becomes utterly and completely useless.

To that extent, melee weapons felt largely like a useless addition online — aside from in playlists specific to them.

Unfortunately that mea culpa only further illustrated just how out of touch the developer is as their proposed changes really do nothing to address the core issues with this game, namely that PvP is in its most broken state in Destiny history largely due to a strive for «balance» that has neutered all weapons useless and that there is no real end game to keep players involved once the story is concluded.

I don't suppose you could possibly spare us the useless unwelcome largely insensible semantic nitpickery could you, Willard?

Apple is also expected to revamp its Maps feature, which has been largely inaccurate and therefore useless since many years.

With Xiaomi's aggressive app management enabled, the staying power of the Mi Mix 2 is astronomical, but that's largely because it throttles background processes to the point of them being almost useless — hardly ideal when you want notifications to come through instantly.