Sentences with phrase «serves little purpose»

Without it the organization serves little purpose, or not enough to warrant the costs.

I am not certain I know how that idea became popular or why it has remained so engrained as it ultimately serves little purpose for most candidates and it can work to the detriment of a job seeker.

As a follow - up to the competent LG V30 released in 2017, this new Android phone serves little purpose beyond confusing people with a different name, yet few other changes.

However, life insurance component of the plan serves little purpose.

Where regulation serves little purpose, we need to remove it.

They recognize that standalone content, produced more or less randomly and left to its own devices, serves little purpose.

Viewing all this as an ideologically defensive maneuver not only explains a lot, it helps us realize that refuting Santorum probably serves little purpose.

These days the Labrador Retriever is still expected to have a thick and muscular neck; however, for most dogs it serves little purpose as they no longer work such laborious duties.

I said «At age 60 with low income an HSA serves little purpose.»

At age 60 with low income an HSA serves little purpose because the tax savings is so marginal and an HDHP is required.

A whole narrative thread with Michael Stuhlbarg's Hoffstetler serving as a covert spy also serves little purpose in the grand scheme of the film, only really establishing the era's geopolitical stakes.

Jason Statham is an incredibly likeable action hero, but his brooding presence just doesn't feel right for the title character, while Jennifer Lopez is terribly miscast in a part that serves little purpose to the overall story.

There is a half - baked uprising against WCKD that is only tangentially related to the main characters and serves little purpose other than to paint an explosive background to what's meant to be the true emotional stakes of the movie: Thomas saving his friends.

Mark Addy has better luck as Donald's brother - in - law, but he serves little purpose in the overall plot, unless a scene featuring him urinating in the kitchen sink is meant to be symbolic.

It's a nice and enjoyable distraction to the regular gameplay, but unfortunately serves little purpose.

Illustrating just how far the cardboard slipcover craze has gone, Diving boasts one which serves little purpose, merely reproducing the artwork below.

, a brief tacked - on action sequence that serves little purpose other than to keep the blood pumping.

The film is also divided into chapters, which serves little purpose other than to give away details about upcoming events, as if intent on spoiling rather than foreshadowing.

The pop star Sting added: «Giving young people criminal records for minor drug possession serves little purpose - it is time to think of more imaginative ways of addressing drug use in our society.»

«Sometimes it's helpful to have the Mayor there, and sometimes it serves little purpose,» spokesman Austin Finan said.

It serves little purpose to examine the Sistine Chapel ceiling with a microscope or to read a play of Shakespeare with minute analysis of phrases (which practice prompted Whitehead to call for teachers of English to be «prosecuted for soul murder»).

Another thing: Each year when Samsung would announce the latest Galaxy device, it would announce a slew of new software - based features that served little purpose.

Some meetings seem to serve little purpose, some can be useful: this meeting was providential.

Government control of information is typical of totalitarian regimes and dictatorships «15 The mailing served little purpose, since virtually all U.S. newspapers regularly carry cigarette ads.

This may serve little purpose in the wider scheme of things but it does help guide this site as it tries to cover the Football League to the largest extent possible without knowing the intricacies of everyday life at each of the clubs that participate.

I have no problem offending Trump, but the present offence would have served little purpose.

That's rightfully so, as they serve little purpose.

I'd love to move to the West Coast someday, where my beloved coat collection would serve little purpose!

Next to the house, there is a very large tree (a Moreton Bay Fig to be precise); and until now, it has served little a purpose aside from providing the children with an expansive and popular addition to their playground; which is essentially their backyard.

It struggles to fill an hour and a half, with most of the cast serving little purpose beyond padding things out a few more minutes.

2 feels exceedingly long at points, with scenes that serve little purpose save to hear the characters talk.

And outside of a few characters that serve little purpose than to move the plot forward, the rest are treated with just as much care as Kendall.

Both plot devices have a weighted build - up and serve little purpose by the end of the film.

At regular intervals, Shark Tale is crammed endlessly with songs that serve little purpose than to hock the soundtrack.

Also, the vulgar dialogue that appears in the novels as well as the film that serve little purpose in moving the story forward, and generate a creepy tone.

Meanwhile, a fine supporting cast feels a bit wasted in roles that serve little purpose save to push forward the plot to its ultimate destination.

They're all quite complex and interesting in their own right, but they serve little purpose in the story other than to be sounding boards for Brian and Neil.

Worse, the movie is padded with montages that serve little purpose.

If everyone could examine numbers like Ben Affleck in The Accountant, charts and graphs would serve little purpose.

Generic information, or theoretical learning serve little purpose here, and are largely time wasters.

But beyond their visual appeal, the running boards serve little purpose, as GLK's cabin is already postured at step - in height.

That's a clear abuse of their market power, and served little purpose while penalizing people who had nothing to do with the core business problem.

(I was surprised to find so many contents pages in the front, I will admit, especially in novels, where they generally serve little purpose to a potential reader, except as a tease.

However, the story itself does little to fill in any blanks left in Kratos» tale, serving little purpose at all.

The combat sections, in my opinion, serve little purpose other than to break you out of your immersion.

Other, less jargony words and terms should be avoided when they serve little purpose to the hiring manager.

So while tempting, you will want to stay away from the overly elaborate development that may look good to captive audiences, but serve little purpose to an overburdened, tired and distracted hiring manger.

Hobbies do not have relevant applicability most of the times, so they serve little purpose in adding on to the actual worth of the document.

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It's not that this little receiver does anything extraordinary; instead, it serves a sole purpose: receiving audio over Bluetooth and outputting it through a standard audio port.

But the half - hour flight, while historic for both the oil and gas and the drone industries, served little commercial purpose beyond testing its sensor payload and navigation systems.