Sentences with phrase «limits its usefulness as»

The Basset Artesien Normand can do well as a watch dog, though they tend to make friends with strangers very quickly, limiting their usefulness as a guard dog.

This test has limited usefulness as it does not provide any additional information if chest x-rays and / or echocardiography have already shown evidence of atrial enlargement.

This does, however, limit the accessibility of the book for many readers, and limits its usefulness as a «cookbook» for practicing programmers, who may not be familiar with assembly, or who may have no particular desire to translate assembly language code into a high - level language.

That the Moto 360 Sport is really only of use for running seriously limits its usefulness as a sport watch.

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This is because technology has eliminated the inconveniences that would otherwise limit gold's usefulness as money, with BitGold being the latest evidence.

This volatility limits the so - called cryptocurrency's usefulness as a store of value.

Thus, we see no limit to the complexity and usefulness of computer programs that have their own history, go through their own development, learn from their own mistakes, and as symbols of Whiteheadian propositions offer both intelligent lures and the means to confirm or deny them.

Since its sample represents only 29 per cent of all births in only 16 per cent of all United States hospitals, its usefulness as illustrative of the whole country is limited.

Unfortunately, the word «evangelism» is so loaded with negative connotations for many thoughtful Christians as to limit its usefulness.

Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.

As anyone who passed beginning stats can tell you, though, means are limited in their usefulness and need to be paired with the distribution.

Until now, the structure of substrates for implantable devices has essentially been two - dimensional, limiting their usefulness to flat tissue such as skin, according to the paper.

Decision theory — the tool of management that suggests making optimal choices by summing discounted future values over the probability distribution of all possible outcomes — is of limited usefulness, as are businesses» five - year plans.

In the first multi-state study of children's and non-children's hospitals, assessing pediatric readmission and revisit rates — being admitted into the hospital again or visiting the emergency room within 30 days of discharge — for common pediatric conditions, UCSF researchers found that diagnosis - specific readmission and revisit rates are limited in their usefulness as a quality indicator for pediatric hospital care.

Scientists have long known that as human embryonic stem (ES) cells age, they develop genetic mutations that could limit their medical usefulness.

It's the physiques with the most development across a spectrum of physical qualities that are most attractive, as opposed to those that have limited usefulness.

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.

The fact that the school choice option was limited to just schools operated by the district (which may often be just as bad as the failure mills kids were leaving) instead of a wide array of charters and parochial schools outside of it has also blunted its usefulness.

While obviously limited in its usefulness, I'm still glad Toyota included EV mode — very short trips will no longer feel quite as wasteful.

This works only on catalogs and on magazines that you purchase; it doesn't apply to books, and the scrapbooks can't be exported to Pinterest or as PDFs, which limits this feature's usefulness.

As a consequence, the GPS can't be used in conjunction with the tablet's namesake keyboard dock, limiting its usefulness on the road.

Described as making «minor system enhancements» to the Android - based ereader by B&N itself, the software significantly limits the general usefulness of the NOOK Tablet for those wanting to do more than basic reading and browsing.

It doesn't apply to books and the scrapbooks can't be exported to Pinterest or as a PDF, which limits this feature's usefulness.

I see that as an issue that is going to severely limit the usefulness of the connected Kindle.

This limits the usefulness of variable life policies as a college savings vehicle to families with very young children.

Overall, this work is accessible to a general audience; however, Randers's limited analysis and justification of model assumption restrict the usefulness of this book as a stand - alone text.

That is why the usefulness of models in science is limited to analytical work such as discovering hidden assumptions.

In addition, the spatial resolution of ASCAT is half that of QuikSCAT, which limits ASCAT's usefulness in coastal applications to those that are about 50 km or farther from land, and in the resolution of small - scale features in the wind field such as hurricane structure, fronts, and jets.

However, despite the usefulness of this free database from SOQUIJ, realize that it is quite limited in scope, providing by my count translations of only 395 decisions broken down by the following courts / tribunals (with the number indicating the total number of translations as of today's date):

FindACase will be supported through advertising and, as noted, lacks some features that limits its usefulness for lawyers.

As stated by Mr. Justice Goepel in Guthrie v. Narayan, 2012 BCSC 734 (at para. 30) in respect to Facebook photos: «Those pictures are of limited usefulness.

Justice Khullar found the explicit inclusion of lenders in the CIBC's position in other provinces» legislation to be of limited usefulness in this case, despite the Supreme Court of Canada's endorsement of such legislation as useful interpretive aids in Canadian Human Rights Commission) v Canada (Attorney General), 2011 SCC 53 (CanLII) at paras 57 - 60.

The latter isn't a great solution as it also turns off the screen completely (which is a bit overkill), limiting the usefulness of it as a time piece.

The Smart Connector is currently limited in usefulness, as Apple's own Smart Keyboard and a few third - party charging stands and keyboard cases are the only accessories that take advantage of the connector.

Though we feel the limited multitasking features of iOS compromise its usefulness as a task - for - task laptop replacement, the Pencil stylus makes the iPad Pro a compelling choice for digital artists or those who prefer to take notes or mark up documents by hand.

Hopefully, we will see a version of the Xiaomi Mi A1 with expanded frequency band coverage, as the current band support will limit its usefulness in countries that rely heavily on LTE bands 2, 4, 7, 12, and 17.

Google's Chromecast... er, Home app is much the same as it has been since its 2015 update, and as such, is still limited in its usefulness.

As a psychological term body image has had significant obstacles in definition and conceptualization, limiting its usefulness in psychoanalytic formulations and interventions.