Sentences with phrase «more useful purpose»

And, this rational thinking is magnified even more if the product being purchased isn't just a new big - screen TV, but one that serves a more useful purpose, like a new family car.

This so - called serial area studies could, thus, serve a more useful purpose.

Not exact matches

Today, some organizations are using biometric technologies to keep outsiders out, but others are finding the technology — especially the less - expensive fingertip and hand scanners — far more useful for in - house security purposes.

This concept was originally extremely useful for heuristic purposes and has made possible a great many individual analytical investigations, but it now threatens to degenerate into a mere slogan which conceals more than it is able to illuminate, and therefore itself requires analysis.

Religion no longer serves a useful purpose, other than to perhaps give some measure of comfort to the dying that there's somehow more after «lights - out».

At the very least it provides us with a useful summary of more detailed expositions for didactic and other purposes.

They are more useful now for entertainment purposes than for anything else.

It's great for adding coconut flavor and can serve other purposes, but not very useful as a thickening agent (after all it's just tiny shavings of coconut that are hardly more absorbant than a nut flour).

Chairman of the Dairy Farmers Milk Co-op, Ian Zandstra has claimed the supermarkets must be more transparent and that it is for them to prove they have not engaged in loss leading or predatory pricing; while this may be useful for PR purposes, it's clearly not their legal obligation.

But beyond this important policy implication is a second implication in Jackson's study that is more relevant for our purposes: There is a more creative and potentially more useful way to measure noncognitive skills than what most researchers are currently focused on.

Spending a bit more on the areas and items that matter (in this case, a pool table) is a great way to make a statement piece out of something useful and integral to the purpose of the room.

Many more did not necessarily embrace such ideas, but saw its legacy as useful for present purposes and one that could be applied in their opposition to state power and the existing system.

For policy makers, revising the National Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance System to allow reporting of outcomes on a per - couple basis (including oocyte donors) would provide significantly more useful information for decision - making purposes.»

Well - qualified and savvy Ph.D. scientists could very likely land substantially more lucrative offers on their own, but the program serves a useful purpose by aiming to ease the way to a first industrial position for scientists unfamiliar with or intimidated by the nonacademic job market.

These particles would be even more useful if such properties could be deliberately and reversibly tuned for specific purposes.

We do this in order to make our sites more interesting and useful to you and for various purposes related to NEA.

The purpose of Anvarol is to increase the adenosine Triphosphate levels in the body, which are useful for increasing the energy levels of the body, and lets the body to store more of it.

If you do want to know which specific supplements I recommend for various purposes including the exact recommended brands, dosages and other useful tips, then make sure to download my complete Fitness Supplementation Guide for more information.

As the popularity of these sites has boomed, more people have realized that online networking can also be useful for business purposes.

These Advanced Spreadsheets resources were developed originally to help students build skills required for the Level 3 Advanced ECDL, but are also useful for developing more complex spreadsheet skills for other purposes, both at KS4 and KS5.

My purpose in pointing out these differences is simply to draw a useful line of distinction and acknowledge that teachers of skill - driven and fact - driven courses probably will find it more challenging to come up with the type of problem scenarios described earlier.

Small, handheld devices may be useful for recording data and evidence whilst on a geography field trip but a PC with a large display screen and plenty of data storage is far more relevant for a music technology lesson or for CAD (computer aided design) purposes.

Results from annual standardized tests can be useful for accountability purposes, but student progress must be measured on a far more frequent basis if the data are being used to inform instruction and improve achievement.

Furthermore, measuring performance using the full range of achievement provides additional and useful information for parents, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers for the purposes of decisionmaking and accountability, including more accurate information about the differences among schools.

Another topic of conversation among attendees was the purpose behind research - practice partnerships and how the collaboration between researchers and practitioners can yield more relevant and useful study findings.

Those responsible for selecting assessments will benefit from knowing that «less is more» so that type I errors (false positives) are avoided and all assessment results are reliable, valid, and useful for their intended purpose.

But while Goldstein assumes that the purpose of a value - added model is to assess individual teachers, it's worth noting that value - added methods can be much more useful if we focus on larger units of analysis, such as the performance of a whole school or mathematics achievement across a whole district.

While some of these technologies may be more useful and effective than others, they all serve a purpose.

Amazon, Kobo and Sony say that if they were forced to comply with FCC regulations and make e-readers fully accessible to people with disabilities, the essential nature of the devices would change, making them more like tablets, more expensive and, overall, less useful for their express purpose.

As useful as this is for business purposes, the Kindle devices and apps can do more than PDFs.

XHTML Content Documents also include the means of annotating document markup with rich metadata, making them more semantically meaningful and useful both for processing and accessibility purposes (XHTML Semantic Inflection [Content Docs 3.1]-RRB-.

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Since most of these tablets are targeted to be inexpensive, they'd likely not have features that would make them more useful than netbooks, at least for my purposes.

Quicken is more useful when it comes to analyzing long - term spending trends, monitoring your investments, and recording expenses for tax purposes

Lines of credit are useful for a variety of purposes but it makes more sense to use them for recurring and continuous expenses such as funding a wedding or a major home renovation project.

It also includes an array of other benefits that make it even more useful for travel purposes.

Silver also serves a more than useful industrial purpose and is used extensively in a growing number of manufacturing processes, including solar energy panels for example.

However, regret literally servers no useful purpose to a trader, in fact, it will ONLY result in other more dangerous emotions, if you allow it to.

However, the RSI is also very useful for this purpose, if not more useful.

We decided that a more in - depth analysis would be useful confirmation for our own investment purposes and to alert our clients and friends to the high risks we see going forward.

For planning purposes, it's much more useful to work with your effective tax rate — what you actually pay relative to income from all sources.

Conceptually and pedagogically, I find the division into location (Assets and Liabilities) and purpose (Capital, Income, and Expenses) more useful than the division into activa and passiva.

In addition, since many breeds were created for more than one purpose, any categorization — while useful — is less than perfect.

It serves a useful purpose in many dog foods (read more).

It serves a useful purpose in many dog foods (read more here).

Look for a card that will be usable — and useful — in more locations, offering all - purpose rewards or financing rates that earn it a spot in your financial armory.

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The physical Steam Link box could still end up being useful by working with even more types of controllers, as well as running general purpose software using the Steam Link SDK.

Delsin's neon ability is more useful for transportation purposes, allowing you to turn into a bright beam of neon light and literally fly up the side of buildings.

The story of how the Israelis resurrected a language that was dead except for religious purposes and made a scientifically useful language out of it is even more interesting.