Sentences with phrase «much purpose except»

Not exact matches

Nor is it particularly important to know the chemical composition of a man, except for the purposes of amusing or shocking audiences in popular lectures by telling them that they are so much hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, potassium, sulfur, and so on, worth one dollar and ninety - eight cents on the current market in chemicals.

And you're right, I do believe Covington is a grinder and even more so when he decides to utilize his wrestling which he didn't do much in the Maia fight, except for defensive purposes.

One of the basic critiques of using test scores for accountability purposes has always been that simple averages, except in rare circumstances, don't tell us much about the quality of a given school or teacher.

The article, however, focuses on the traditional e-ink dedicated device, the one that doesn't do much of anything except download and display books (Note: yes, there are a great number of lesser features like annotation and highlighting, but for all intents and purposes, the job is to show you a book.)

Not much use, except for transactional purposes: Maintaining a variety of currency a / cs, and / or using stock sale (s) to fund a stock purchase in the same currency, is an efficient strategy.

They are similar to the scent glands of a skunk; however, they're smaller and don't serve much purpose anymore — except to gross out cat owners.

Property Damage Liability insurance works much like the above mentioned BIL insurance, except the purpose of PD.L is to cover the cost of damage to other parties» property, including their car, when you are the «at fault» party in an accident.