Sentences with phrase «usefulness at»

The latter might seem of questionable usefulness at a first glance, but consider its usefulness when browsing the web at night for reading purposes — with the OnePlus 3's AMOLED screen, it's actually nice to have it hanging in there for the occasional insomniac redditing session.
-- is quietly acknowledged to be of limited usefulness at best in leveraging politicians.
As a result, the only readings that have any usefulness at all are the extreme outliers (to which the current reading is not even close).

Not exact matches

More broadly, he questions the overall usefulness of calculating franchise success rates at all.
NEW YORK — An audit of Facebook's privacy practices for the Federal Trade Commission found no problems even though the company knew at the time that a data - mining firm improperly obtained private data from millions of users — raising questions about the usefulness of such audits.
With the value of Bitcoin at record highs, and the holiday season upon us, there's no better time for the cryptocurrency to prove its mainstream usefulness.
However, I do have my doubts about the usefulness of Google Glass, at least for the next couple of years.
other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate Adjusted Revenue differently from how we calculate this measure or not at all, which reduces its usefulness as a comparative measure.
However, if you look at what the core technology of Ethereum is bringing to the table, Ethereum itself and the decentralized applications that are being built on top of it, have the opportunity of completely dismantling all of the exchanges in which we may be listing products on in the first place... crypto out - competes [fiat] in usefulness and in every facet important to a civilization moving away from analog into digital.»
If keeping the blocksize at 1mb was an experiment to see how the fee market would develop, it has already played out its usefulness.
This apparent piqued interest has come at the perfect time for the Ethereum network, as the innovative technology races to explore multiple scaling solutions, as well as ways by which to improve usefulness (e.g. Solidity, mobile SDKs) and security.
But there is, at least, an interpretation offered, and it is theological: God was at work in these events, bringing death to an institution that had outlived its usefulness and working new life beyond that death.
In fact, there seem to be only two good reasons for letting anyone live at all: one's potential usefulness to society and the capacity of one's death to make another grieve.
Any layman or church leader can be at the height of their popularity and usefulness, and yet be yesterday's man or woman.
Even if one can not agree with the particular amalgam of East and West which he is evolving, one can not deny the importance of the task to which he has committed himself nor its usefulness as a stimulus to the overall task of arriving at a new language — or languages — which can communicate to man once again both divine and fully human existence, the goal we are all seeking.
That having been said, however, social scientists who understand both the usefulness and limitations of their craft know that the religious phenomenon, at its heart and in its totality, escapes the nets of social theory and analysis.
This simple observation suggests the usefulness of seeing at least a partial autonomy between the preferred metaphors of the Christian faith (for instance, the metaphors of creator, governor and redeemer applied to God) and its preferred principles of obligation.
I mean, obviously, to support those who think of the future usefulness of these bodies, and of their federative structures, in «gathered - church» more than in «churchly» terms — at that juncture I agree with Dean Kelley (Why Conservative Churches Are Growing [Harper & Row, 1972]-RRB- To put this concretely, let me offer just one example.
The first horn is of primary interest in this debate, because Professor Cobb has shown a strong penchant for the notion of regional inclusion, a notion he acknowledges to be, at least explicitly, unrecognized by Whitehead, but which he, Cobb, finds (1) quite compatible with the Whiteheadian conceptuality and (2) of great philosophical usefulness.
But more important, alternative true Gestalts differ as to their usefulness and relevance to the task and needs at hand.
Whilst the concept is certainly not primary at the level of spiritual communion between persons, actual and potential usefulness, in the sense of functional relationality, is, in the light of modern physics, chemistry and biology at the heart of the very being and metaphysical significance of physical things.
Unfortunately it is a paradigm that has outlived its usefulness, for at least two reasons:
A few years ago two conferences were held at Vanderbilt University to discuss the legacy of the usefulness of the categories for actual historical analysis.
Understanding form itself as a means of grace challenges us to take another look at the sometimes forbidding wildness of the arts, to open the doors of our churches not only to obviously useful and «religious» art, but to unpredictable forms, forms that exist apart from any question of usefulness.
At the same time, the Church has rules or precepts which may have been quite effective in their time, but no longer have the same usefulness for directing and shaping people's lives.»
At the same time, the Church has rules or precepts which may have been quite effective in their time, but no longer have the same usefulness for DIRECTING and SHAPING people's lives.»
However, it is also clear at this point that the usefulness of «myth» is limited.
This is the utilitarian principle at its evangelical best: evaluating and explaining learning and the arts in terms of their personal usefulness, in particular, in terms of what they do for an individual's personal piety.
At some point i had started doubting Jack's usefulness @Arsenal but later on realised it's the managers fault not his, same thing with Ozill, Carzola n» podolski (playing them out of position)
Burnley's James Tarkowski, Swansea's Alfie Mawson, and Leicester's Harry Maguire might not have been obvious England internationals at the beginning of the season, but they've managed to suggest their usefulness to Southgate, and many longer shots have gone to World Cups.
McNair may have not played many games for Louis van Gaal at club level but he has shown his usefulness to Northern Ireland, who are sure to want his services at Euro 2016.
In the case of van Persie we need to reassess his usefulness, in view of his appalling injury record can we afford to keep him at the club?
At the moment the scientific evidence on the usefulness of cycling compression socks in enhancing sports performance and helping recovery is inconclusive.
I became informed on the usefulness on behavior charts while working at a children's home.
The mattress spring is pretty low even at it's highest position, and has several more rungs down to go before it outlives it's usefulness.
Changing tables quickly outgrow their usefulness - if used at all.
But does it's usefulness outweigh the fact it has limited battery life, breaks often, barely reads at 100 feet through walls, and sometimes decides to turn off?
Both vaccines and antibiotics have saved millions of lives, but by overusing antibiotics we are destroying their usefulness and putting everyone at risk.
It may not always be possible to pin down the exact results of a given outreach effort, but proxy measurements should let you compare the relative usefulness of different strategies, at the very least.
And once relevant self - deception can become ingrained after time, even though its usefulness is debatable at best.
We are aware that the initial decision by past governments to pay allowance to students in various training institutions was to motivate and incentivise students to promote entry but looking at the current status of those institutions that initial decision has outlived its policy usefulness considering the level of competition in the admission process.
Therefore the very usefulness of DNA, rarity of false matches, not only fades but begins to beget injustice, as courts accept deeply - flawed statistical evidence (expert witnesses are notoriously poor at stats, ask poor Sally Clark).
Fully promote improvements in the quality and usefulness of your portfolio at all times.
Though Higgins said he had grown increasingly disillusioned with the agency and even questioned whether it had outlived its usefulness, the congressman appeared Wednesday with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Gioia to announce new funds for a vintage carousel at Canalside.
Currently, the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) prepares the most comprehensive view of state and local economic development efforts statewide; however, the usefulness of this presentation is limited because it is based mostly on available data published for past years.1 A UEDB should be part of the Executive and Enacted budgets and should include prospective information showing the costs of all economic development programs for the coming fiscal year.2 To capture the full scope of economic development costs, a UEDB should bring together tax expenditures and spending at state agencies and authorities, as well as the value of discounted power offered by the New York Power Authority.
But the mere fact that Cuomo is facing a challenge at all has been interpreted as a weakness by the national media, especially when it comes to 1) his usefulness to potential 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton in the brave new world of progressive - dominated Democratic politics, (NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio is poised to rise even higher there), and 2) his own White House aspirations.
It was our collective contributions, our collective sacrifices, the usefulness of our relationships at the time and the perceived mutuality of interest into the future that led to our victory.
But the results of their study, they add, offer at least one path to extending the usefulness of nusinersen.
Discover caught up with Baltimore on his final presidential vacation at his second home near Missoula, Montana, where his plans to fly - fish were interrupted by our questions about the future of AIDS prevention, the usefulness of stem cell research, and what really happened in the most famous fraud scandal prior to this year's South Korean stem cell debacle.
Prior studies have looked at the usefulness of laboratory monitoring during isotretinoin therapy.
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