Sentences with phrase «often defeats the purpose»

This one also acts as a reminder that turning poetry into actual images often defeats the purpose of the written words.

As is typical in warrant applications, only the government party seeking the warrant is allowed to attend most FISC proceedings, since including the party the warrant is sought against would often defeat the purpose of the application itself.

Not exact matches

I often want to fast forward through the difficulties of life to get to the more enjoyable parts, but that would defeat the whole purpose of the trial, wouldn't it?

So often God's purpose, if it can be discerned, seems to be defeated.

Courses without those independent checks can be, and often are, dumbed down, defeating their purpose.

Performing the test irregularly (or not often enough) defeats its purpose.

Many people do this, but then they often end up eating too much when they do have a meal, so that defeats the entire purpose.

I'd definitely agree, but not if it's simply used as some kind of excuse / short - cut to reducing growth investing back down into a purely quantitative exercise... which would surely defeat the purpose, and quite often proves the most efficient way to find broken growth stocks & business models.]

«More often than that can be irritating, and irritation can cause more exudate or ear gunk, defeating the purpose of cleaning,» she says.

[11] This, however, would probably defeat the purpose of having a jury at all, as most often I suspect the purpose of selecting a jury relates directly to the assessment of general damages.

You don't want to be pulling out and re-hiding your money belt often because that draws attention to it, which kinda defeats the purpose.

Often I would get frustrated with the SmartWatch's slow response and just dig my phone out of my pocket to read the notification, thus defeating the purpose of wearing the SmartWatch.