The phrase
"limited usefulness" means that something is only helpful or valuable to a certain extent or for specific purposes. It suggests that it has limitations or is not very practical in various situations.
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While this is not a big risk — a user won't gain personal advantage by doing so — it does
limit the usefulness of large groups.
For that reason, this scooter is of
limited usefulness in crowds and in indoor spaces like shopping malls.
But a single bold - faced dollar amount has only
limited usefulness for real estate practitioners and consumers given the wide variation in job markets, housing inventory, and sales trends.
Studies suggest that these drugs have
limited usefulness when combined with surgery, and even less so when used alone.
It seems to be targeted at users who use nothing but those kinds of apps, which
greatly limits its usefulness and makes the premium price tag harder to swallow.
This does
however limit the usefulness of the balance transfer as checks could be used to not only pay off existing balances but also to pay for car repairs or other necessities.
The instant messaging feature makes it easier to connect with people, but not everyone has this feature set up,
which limits its usefulness.
The trouble is, once the samples are removed from those conditions, their physical properties or reactions can change significantly,
limiting the usefulness of the data.
[24,27] The extent to which the abovementioned factors affect the way lactate accumulates, independent of exercise intensity, makes the importance of the lactate threshold less definitive, [26]
thus limiting its usefulness in monitoring and prescribing training intensity.
The short bed decidedly
limits usefulness if you have oversize objects to carry (e.g. motorcycles or surfboards), but it's still plenty big for a family weekend at the lake or a day trip to the beach.
Alan Jacobs of Wheaton College is another close reader of Lewis, and he suggests that the Lewis project is of
limited usefulness today («The Second Coming of C. S. Lewis,» FT, November 1994).
Only two of the cards are regularly selling for under 4,000 MT right now, and the other — Emerald Corliss Williamson — is a tweener - rebounding specialist
with limited usefulness.
Right now the device's low
efficiency limits its usefulness, comments Paul G. Kwiat, a quantum optics expert at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
I was able to max out both versions this morning and while that will attract some players, it does
rather limit the usefulness of the game as after the platinum there's no reason to come back to it because there are no leaderboards.
Another drawback is the «College Match» feature — of
limited usefulness since searching by desired major and state returns a list of schools that are not compared in any meaningful way.
On the other hand, the Outlander's tight third
row limits its usefulness, and the driving experience is more on the buttered - toast end of the stimulation spectrum.
But Kindle Fire's Gallery
app limits the usefulness of this indispensable tool: It resizes all the photos loaded into the Gallery app, regardless of whether you add them by dragging and dropping to the tablet when it's connected to your PC, or download the image via e-mail.
As a consequence, the GPS can't be used in conjunction with the tablet's namesake keyboard dock,
limiting its usefulness on the road.
The HadSST3 analysis works from the bottom up, so that there are consistent adjustments at all scales, whereas your method, being top down, does not specify what the adjustments would be at smaller
scales limiting their usefulness and also the possibility of validating them against independent data.
Beyond laboratory tests, which have
only limited usefulness in explaining the enormously complex global climate, most of the attempts to develop empirical evidence have involved trying to develop and correlate historical CO2 and temperature records.
The conclusion is that the RADQ has
limited usefulness due to its lack of specificity with implications for treatment of children in foster care».
In fact, it is the judgment of the Subcommittee that lack of consideration of the totality of exposures from other sources
severely limits the usefulness of the safety assessment with respect to food contact applications.