Sentences with phrase «little usefulness»

Having gcm shown little usefulness on any manageable timescale, scientists are now wasting time to concoct regional models which can not possibly have any predicting skill whatsoever, as recognised even by the RC luminaries.

This is because traditional measures of a stock's value generally are of little usefulness in circumstances where earnings are growing very quickly.

But there is a lot of value to a pretty commodity that has little usefulness aside from beauty.

As any researcher can immediately note, such surveys have little usefulness as objective evidence, because they are based on subjective opinions that can change based on who is working in classrooms, because survey designs can be flawed with leading questions yielding results favorable to the pollster, and because survey designs can change drastically from year to year.

It's a depressing job but John seems to take pride in tracking down the missing relatives and occasionally re-uniting families but the government sees little usefulness in his role and as a cost cutting measure, John is given his walking papers and a few days to tidy up his years of work and wrap his last case.

Not exact matches

This philosophy often regards «usefulness» as of little metaphysical significance.

«Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness.

The farm animals try to divert a busy little spider from spinning her web, but she persists and produces a thing of both beauty and usefulness.

«Anyone planning to break into the field should be well aware that rewards are purely scientific and be sure of their own motivations,» he says, because astronomers have to deal with little funding and sometimes doubts from family and friends about the usefulness of their research.

Then there are curiosities that, having outlived their apparent usefulness, linger simply because there's no real reason to leave: What good or bad is hair on the little toe — or even the little toe itself?

I've recently discovered the joy and usefulness of these little bookish accessories, and I now I find myself reaching for them all the time.

The typical math curriculum is a good example of how we want learners to move toward expertise in a subject, with little regard for usefulness.

Despite enduring interest in the form and usefulness of student reports, little research about them has been conducted over the last 15 years.

Fewer than 30 per cent identified a high level of usefulness of netbooks and the majority of primary schools considered smartphones to be of very little or no use at all.

Your social media pages help bring a little extra personality and community involvement to your online presence, but you should also strive to use them to grow awareness about the importance and usefulness of your school website.

But these are picky little things, far outweighed with the delightful driving experience and usefulness of the vehicle.

It's one of the reasons I turn to my e-reader after all of this time, because at least it does a little better job — but there is no question that the resolution is lacking and it limits the usefulness of the device.

Throw in its potency as a gaming machine (and, even if you're not a gamer, the usefulness of being able to control media playback from the sofa with a low - cost gamepad) and you have a capable little slate with the flexibility of untampered Android.

Now, after six months, I have a little doubt about the usefulness of the program.

I know there's nothing formal available for most of them, but at least a rough grouping into say 3 categories... (1) considered useful by many veterinarians; (2) controversial; (3) little evidence for usefulness would have been very helpful.

Given that both of these buttons are for DPI swapping and that you likely won't reprogram them for anything else the fact that they're in a slightly awkward position isn't a huge flaw, but being able to swap DPI on - the - fly in a game is handy and thus having them fall a little more naturally under the finger would have augmented their usefulness.

By contrast, a lay person might focus much more on the easy - to - understand «throwaway» comments, and spend little time evaluating the usefulness of the technique, or the implications of any missing context... This is where blogs can help.

Keyboards haven't yet outlived their usefulness, and Logitech continues to make some of the best for adding a little something extra to your iPad.

While the native Windows Phone calendar app has it's usefulness, it can be a little lacking with regards to features.

Windows Phone Central App Roundup: Calendar Apps While the native Windows Phone calendar app has it's usefulness, it can be a little lacking with regards to features.

Although the SURPS personality dimensions demonstrated their usefulness in samples that already were using substances (Conrod et al. 1998; Jackson and Sher 2003; Pulkkinen and Pitkänen 1994; Shall et al. 1992; Sher et al. 2000; Stewart et al. 1995), little attention has been paid to the role of these personality dimensions with regard to the early onset of alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use (Krank et al. 2011; Malmberg et al. 2010b).