Sentences with phrase «serves the useful purpose of»

In that regard, Common Core served a useful purpose of blowing up the status quo.

Any investigation serves the useful purpose of intimidating your political opponents.

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Suits and ties in an offi ce are just another type of uniform, but in an arena where uniforms no longer serve any useful purpose.

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».

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».

It is essentially a game, a contract valid within circumscribed limits, serving no useful purpose but yielding pleasure, relaxation, and an elevation of spirit 36

In acquiescing to the rising, and seemingly irreversible tide of liberation in Eastern Europe, Gorbachev serves a useful purpose.

A preface may serve a useful purpose if it provides the prospective reader with some indication of what he may expect in the pages to follow.

I'm not a practice, but I think if done right (picking something that really impacts your life) this kind of practice could serve a useful purpose as a reminder of the target of contemplation.

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).

Clearly had the season of his life last term but if Sir Alex Ferguson is not going to use him as first choice then having an unhappy player in the dressing room will serve no useful purpose.

Your straight - to - the - shoulder, no - doubletalk reporting rates SPORTS ILLUSTRATED as an outstanding magazine serving a useful purpose with the interest of the reader in mind first.

When it comes to buying a new mom gifts, you want to get her something special, but also something useful, as everything in those early days needs to serve some sort of purpose — whether the purpose is to make their life easier, taste good, or provide self - care.

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.

Baby Milk Action has been engaged in «dialogue» with Nestlé since long before the creation of the UN Global Compact and the involvement of the GCO has served no useful purpose: Baby Milk Action has copied the GCO in on its correspondence to Nestlé and the GCO's sole action has been to copy these letters to Nestlé a second time.

Acoba serves little useful purpose either as a watchdog or as a source of public information.

«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].

His plan to ban large soft drinks will serve only one useful purpose; forcing people to buy two, full price, servings instead of one, discounted, large one.

This ladder of categories serves several useful purposes, in Lipscomb's opinion.

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 this special issue, we pay some serious attention to drugs and how they are made available for the myriad of useful purposes they serve in the world's health care system.

doing stuff like 5 × 5 is only necessary if you're training for powerlifting competition or you're in some other sport that requires a high power - to - bodyweight ratio; it really doesn't serve any useful purpose as part of a general health regimen.

Not that Black Panther is an R - rated bloodbath a là «Logan» — it is as family accessible as any of its Marvel predecessors and might even serve a useful educational purpose.

All of these programs incorporate some explicit instruction, but they make clear how focusing in on the specific skills serves the larger purpose of accomplishing a dynamic, useful task.

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.»

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

The Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education says that to make portfolios really useful, remember that their purpose is to serve as authentic assessments — evaluations of real student work over a given time period.

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.

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

I'm not generally a fam of supernatural stuff in literature, but the first Mrs Hockaday seemed to me to serve a good and useful purpose.

But even a short period will serve a useful purpose in allowing country and regional markets to get established in the face of large, global competitors.

Kobo reckons to have two million books listed, but most of those are freebies - free books serve a useful purpose in giving customers the confidence that they can read, and enjoy, an eBook, but they present a dilemma for a book store unused to giving away the product.

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.

Market - capitalization based indexes have served a useful purpose as indicators of broad market performance and as benchmarks against which to measure active manager performance.

The claws of a domestic cat serve a very useful purpose for the animal.

Some of these items, like the gravity refillable water dishes and food bowls, serve a very useful purpose, others - the dog bandanna comes to mind - serve no real purpose and are merely decorative or just plain silly.

Your blog article underscores the need for planning in advance regarding one's estate and also serves a useful purpose; to highlight for the general public the need and importance of including ones pets in their estate planning.

Speaking of, a wonderfully original idea from the mind of Andy Murdock, «The 10 most bromantic destinations,» died on the vine after it became clear that it served no useful purpose and publishing it would incur the wrath of several DMOs.

Some of it had its uses, but the upgrades only serve to make you feel good about unlocking something new rather than having a specific, useful purpose and improvement.

One is serious in its interest in social and political issues, like what Brecht and Weill were doing with their work that served socially, politically useful purposes, and the other is playful and humorous, which was insightfully brought up in Lynne Cooke's excellent catalogue essay for your show at the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands [Allan McCollum: The Art of Duplicitous Ingemination, 1989]?

So blogs serve an incredibly useful purpose, enabling the interested and well - educated reader to share insights with researchers who are at the cutting edge of new knowledge.

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.

What useful purpose is served when group of scientists involved in the debate accuse the other of religious thinking as an insult, as a negative comment (since religious belief is the opposite of reason in all contexts where it occurs, but especially in the realm of science)?

It's economics 102 that teaches us about the process of technical progress, a place where Breakthrough could serve a very useful purpose.

But it served a purpose: to uncover the iniquity of the Heartland Institute, and in that respect, it was useful.

These documents, while serving a useful purpose in providing guidelines for scenario use, did not fully address the science of climate scenario development.

In the last couple of days I have put up a few posts at RealClimate to suggest that a common public forum would serve a useful purpose in the climate debate.

The blazing lights our satellites photograph while whizzing above us in their orbits, well, that's light that's serving no useful purpose (unless you want to think of our glowing cities as a form of art meant for distant eyes).

Cyclists recognize that, unlike most Toronto stop signs, traffic lights serve a useful purpose, determining right of way.