Sentences with phrase «serve a useful purpose by»

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.

Critics of federally - sponsored school - to - work programs serve a useful purpose by pointing to possible problems.

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These are expensive exercises, which do not seem to serve any useful purpose The Committee failed to abide by the last part of its first recommendation — «irresponsible spending».

No useful purpose is served by denying that such friends are conservatives.

No useful purpose will be served by labeling everyone with whom we disagree as a «right - winger.»

Because it would serve no useful purpose, we will refrain from spreading upon these pages the attacks made by each party as to the character and fitness of the other.

«If the President is of the view that any useful purpose will be served by the person who is the subject of this investigation stepping aside or being suspended in the meantime [he can do so].

The Advisory Group of Independent Experts, convened by the WHO, recently argued that keeping the virus will never serve any useful purpose.

We should not forget that apple juice is a useful source of vitamin C, and no good public purpose whatever is served by creating quite unnecessary public alarm and confusion.»

In a series of questions about the state's dismissal laws, and whether they serve a useful purpose, Seymour agreed that they do, saying they help «protect teachers from arbitrary decisions that might be made by a principal or district for reasons not related to their teaching competence.»

Additionally, by blocking digital tools that serve a useful purpose in learning, schools effectively stop educators from teaching and modeling appropriate online behavior.

It flexes and shakes over bumps due to its lack of structural rigidity caused by the huge aperture for the convertible roof, and the ride height serves no useful purpose other than to make the CrossCabriolet look ridiculous and be less efficient.

These activities serve many purposes: they benefit the dog by keeping him in shape, giving him useful employment, and building a bond with his human companion; they benefit people by providing opportunities to work hand in paw with another species, gain assistance in hobbies or jobs, and broaden horizons and abilities.

As such, it serves no useful purpose, except to enable politicians to launch a fight against industrialization or to restrict, if not, prevent the introduction of new technologies by invoking the precautionary principle.

Leggatt J rejected the contention that such a principle of futility exists, stating that a court will not disapply «a contractual precondition to the accrual of a right or obligation... just because complying with it is considered by the court to serve no useful purpose».

The Supreme Court held that the judge was entitled to conclude, in substance, that no useful purpose would have been served by continuing the hearing.

Opening up legal citation means abandoning those forms of citation that serve no useful purpose, or, where the limited purpose they serve is outweighed by the complexity of their form.

By contrast, a business would not have machinery etc simply so that it could be programmed, transported, repaired or cleaned: if that were all that it was there for, the machinery would serve no useful, practical purpose in the undertaking.

I can not see that any useful purpose will be served by requiring the existing recognised representative bodies to respond to an initial invitation to apply for recognition (for a period of between one and six years) in the transition period.

The cap rate formula commonly serves two useful real estate investing purposes: To calculate a property's cap rate, or by transposing the formula, to calculate a property's reasonable estimate of value.