Like other valid theorems, this is a truism, but it is not useless, for it helps in organising the argument. |
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The bishop has moral authority over his priests, but if one of them laughs in his face, that moral authority is useless. |
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But their cult is now in disarray, and the best writing of the moment has repudiated useless dogmas in favor of the fundamentals of storytelling. |
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The lines you used for trout and salmon fishing are useless in the warmer climates. |
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But it still sits in our DNA, one of many useless remnants testifying to our evolutionary ancestry. |
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These are aspects of the body that are claimed to be useless leftovers from our animal ancestry. |
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Ereana reseated herself in the stables on a pile of fresh wheat, feeling utterly useless. |
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I had shooting pains, and my right arm and fingers and shoulder were useless. |
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This way they can remove malicious or simply useless software and improve the overall system response time and stability. |
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Neither does one want to waste time learning skills and information which will soon be as useless as hats for silt. |
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I'm rubbish at pacing my alcohol intake, and useless at not mixing my drinks. |
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Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless. |
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In Thailand three of the most common antimalarial drugs are now useless because of resistance. |
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When arresting prisoners, my guards will not allow them to stop and grab a useless trinket of purely sentimental value. |
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Many people speak loosely of others living useless or futile lives, as if a person's worth can be gauged on the basis of his or her activity. |
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Antibiotics are useless and proprietary antiseptic gargles and lozenges if used in excess are likely to further aggravate the throat. |
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Has anyone in the known or unknown universe bought one of these supremely useless, blisteringly overhyped, rideable vacuum cleaners? |
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Non-PostScript printers tend to print misshapenly and so are pretty useless for proofing purposes. |
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Even there, in too many of the pipes, the water trickles out so feebly as to be useless. |
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He was useless with a sword, missed his targets in archery, fell off his horse as soon as he got on, and in general hated fighting. |
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The writer's body finds itself dismantled, brutalised, shook up, helpless, useless puppet, prey to disorganised ideas. |
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Errors in the romanization of Chinese sometimes make bibliographic information useless. |
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They were pretty useless when confronted with the high-pitched whine of the rotor's gears directly above our heads. |
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Others, like the Shetland and rough collie, have been taken up by show breeders and are virtually useless for livestock work. |
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The heart or other organs can be transplanted or kept going by mechanical methodry, but the brain without electrical impulse is useless. |
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He wasn't much of a looker, but the second you started talking to him he took your breath away with all his useless knowledge. |
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Now I'm useless, but it was a great buzz being the best at the thing you love most in the world. |
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They would charge at each other, trade a few useless blows, and then back out of range of the other's strike. |
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On October 6, it cancelled its 11-race card because of an electrical problem that rendered its infield tote board useless. |
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For every useless mouth in a beleaguered place adds to the difficulties of the defenders and facilitates the task of the besiegers. |
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This practice, to a large extent, is responsible for the sale of many useless tonics and drugs without any medical practitioner's prescription. |
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As a result our paper serviettes were useless by the time we reached a table. |
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It also consumes all of your computer's memory so it's basically useless unless I can strip it down slightly. |
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But if I'm looking for imported sparkling white wine, all the info you have about Merlots is useless. |
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These Mucks also have semblances of arms, although they are probably useless. |
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He was useless at b-ball and he spent his lunch break with his friends who did not play, watching them practice. |
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Do you, Senator, want judges and mayors to be able, at their pleasure, to render laws useless? |
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Williams told everyone who would listen that his players were useless, and it eventually proved to be a self-fulfilling prophecy. |
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A year and a half ago a study came out suggesting that breast self-examination was useless. |
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I'm definitely not saying that bass is a useless instrument, or piano, or anything like that at all. |
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Avoid useless and meaningless words, and certain phrases that will place you in the penalty box. |
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Whether it's a car boot sale, a Moroccan souk or a high street store, men are useless barterers. |
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The Europeans in this regards are the worst culprits, with more and more useless regulation being used as barriers to free trade. |
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I dropped the now useless pocket pistol and scrambled for the Mauser rifle that had dropped to the floorboards. |
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One cannot lament its influence, for one thing because to do so would be useless. |
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When it comes to driving a hard bargain, they don't come much more useless than Yours Truly. |
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Worse, they're also tremendous space hogs, gobbling up dozens of precious square feet in useless aisle area. |
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I felt pretty useless, and began to drift around aimlessly, asking if anyone needed help. |
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The misreading of the way of the world led to the construction of several almost completely useless marshalling yards. |
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The warship was then hit by a torpedo, which rendered her screws and rudders useless. |
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I flipped open a pouch on my thigh and took out an electrical scrambler, made specifically for rendering anything electronic useless. |
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That could cause bits of information to disappear or become scrambled in transmission, and render the chip useless. |
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I felt so bad, so ashamed of the person I am today, so worthless, so empty, so useless. |
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Telephone and electric lines drooped in useless loops from poles and then disappeared entirely where scavengers had picked them clean. |
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Of course, these weapons were useless if they could not be brought to bear against the Axis powers. |
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You can spend an awful lot of time as an addict, an awful lot of useless time, debating such stuff. |
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I left my tent poles in the garage, making my tent useless, so we borrowed my brother-in-law's backpacking tent. |
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Sophisticated hardware including helicopters, tanks and armoured vehicles is often useless because it is an easy target for enemies. |
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Leaving the court mafia intact would make the fight against corruption useless. |
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They made their way carefully inside, trudging past sagging curls of wallpaper and rusted and useless light sconces. |
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A sad and unfortunate chain of events last night has rendered my computer useless. |
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Michael, the Human Onion, a useless fairground attraction, sits lumpishly in a tent, failing to impress his young audience. |
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I found the salesperson to be so aggressively unknowledgeable and remarkably useless that I fled. |
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Most were thieves or assassins but others were there to make good money off of their useless junk. |
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He painted government as the slothful bloated protector of welfare cheats, overpaid bureaucrats and useless politicians. |
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Celestial navigation used a sextant built right into the cockpit but if the plane was wallowing at all, it was useless. |
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I think the last time I wore a tie was March, and a watch is useless since your cell phone already has the time on it. |
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Such stones were useless to the early quarriers, although they would often take the specimens home as curiosities. |
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The eyes need one to two seconds for accommodation before they can focus, so a continuous sweep is useless for identifying targets. |
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This coach had a condensation problem, and water from the air conditioning system had rendered the luggage rack, and the seats near it, useless. |
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Zeph was definitely not the wimpy, useless, weak coward that he had originally seemed and she found herself almost inexplicably drawn to him. |
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To him, she was a precious jewel among thousands of massive and useless rocks. |
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You think all this caterwauling about the deficit is just a bunch of useless jibber-jabber that will never go anywhere? |
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Mr. X's drawing of the joint was not so much useless as directed at a different objective. |
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Apart from being useless money grubbers who are not into shoe culture, they are criminals. |
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Hiring a skip, we spent days clearing the place of his useless tat before we could move our own piles of useless tat in. |
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So a few weeks ago, the two astronauts who live there tossed out some useless junk, like so many old hubcaps for the trash heap. |
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You can hardly enter or leave the Royal Garden Plaza without tripping over someone's junk or having useless articles thrust into your face. |
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With everything put away, and relatively all garbage, junk, and useless things in their respective places, there was only one more thing to do. |
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The manufactured sleeve boards you buy in the shops are pretty useless, so you're much better getting your local carpenter to make you one. |
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Some prefer it straight, although the alcohol burn of anything but the softest undiluted whisky generally renders your tastebuds fairly useless. |
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Jack dies and Will is left to feel that again the money is entirely useless, undeserved and with no real purpose. |
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You take your useless junk and list it, and if someone wants it, you send it to them instead of putting it out with the trash. |
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I think the Internet has still got a strong element of co-operation when you delve beyond all the useless junk and corporate machinery. |
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I felt useless, knew full well that I was underachieving, but still refused point blank to do anything about it. |
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Here is the junkyard, not as a repository of useless and discreet things, but as the living space of the working artist. |
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The entire nation passes the useless time watching the coloured balls wheek round each Saturday lottery evening. |
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So, while online petitions are useless, as everyone says, surely they can do no harm. |
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When we skimp on any one component, the others suffer, and therefore render a weekend almost completely useless. |
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She waits for another useless barrage of platitudes and axioms, but all she catches is the harsh rasp of his breathing. |
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His left arm was nearly useless, and he tried to shield it with his body, but a sudden kick into his side threw him to the right. |
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They also claimed that moves to protect her new identity were useless as she was so instantly recognisable. |
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These and other factors not mentioned may count against him, rendering his financial support from Smith useless. |
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The useless surplus is the surplus of freedom itself, the margin of free production unconstrained by production for necessity. |
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Indeed, some of the founding organisations have left the alliance and struck out once again into glorious, and useless, isolation. |
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They sent us a multitude of useless video tapes, books and other assorted junk that we did not want. |
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Holmes' department is making moves to better manage the land that most Australians write off as useless. |
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He lays the ball off to Heskey, who drives a useless cross against the legs of the nearest Swedish defender. |
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He tried to make some noises but received a hard blow to the back, which caused him to stop his useless attempts at speech. |
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Having a coarse run, she carried a huge body of water in her wake, in which the rudder was useless. |
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I tossed the useless tent stake aside and stood up, wiping the sweat off my face. |
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In this way they make Christ not only useless to us but also a judge and a tyrant who is angry because of our sins and who damns sinners. |
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Some people use cleaners like bleach, not knowing that it is useless in a barn. |
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A prominent historian at the time described it as the most monumentally useless book ever written. |
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The gun was now sitting useless on the small table in the hall, the ammo vanished in to his pocket. |
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Clearly a map or a language would be rendered useless if mere replication replaced representation. |
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They turned useless prairies into golden wheat fields, their wagons into powerful locomotives, and a savage wilderness into a network of commerce and trade. |
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He also had a distinct air of annoyance at being given such a useless job. |
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A more useless, empty-headed crowd of saddos I've seldom if ever met. |
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I astound myself with my memory for useless childhood trivia. |
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Most pythons have atrophied useless pelvises floating inside their abdomens, not connected to anything. |
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Newham has more CCTV cameras than any other authority, but they were useless when the workers monitoring them kicked off the strike by walking out on the stroke of midnight. |
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I bought every 12-inch mix of the single that was available, and played them endlessly on the useless radiogram that comprised my state of the art hi-fi at the time. |
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Hey, you'd be surprised at the useless junk people will buy for a buck. |
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Sometimes, nothing works and the result is a pile of useless junk. |
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Only old junk and useless metal compartments were still around. |
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Speed ramps along College Road, put in to try and dissuade boy racers who use the road to cut from one side of the town to the other, have been branded useless. |
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I hate this weak whingy little piece of useless nothing I'm turning into. |
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That makes any introduction I could write for him useless and redundant. |
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Using her pole as a staff, her temporarily lamed left hand useless at her side, she turned, beginning her hunt for the tricky sorceress and a place to camp once more. |
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As you know I have created a weapon that will render all others useless. |
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Lab and diagnostic equipment is strewn about, rendered useless. |
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Windshield mounting places such products far outside the laser beam radius at operational distances at which laser guns are used, making them useless. |
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For the happiness and the amour propre of the people living within it, in order to make them proud, the great city requires the elaborate display of otherwise useless emblems. |
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I think he was just trying to make me feel like a useless punk, since the only thing I've ever done with my own hands over any Thanksgiving was stuff a turkey. |
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She was brilliant, there was no doubt about that, but when it came to escaping from awkward situations, coming up with valid excuses or witty retorts, she was useless. |
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As her severely rheumatoid hands are useless, an adequate range of movement in just one of her knees means that she can still get out of the chair without help. |
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Of course I was useless with women, but that's another story. |
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I am continually surprised as more useless government departments are dragged out into the light of day to be displayed to the ever more annoyed populace. |
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In another generation, it will be useless, leading visitors straight into a pillar. |
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Most people could agree on whether a given configuration of materials is a functioning vehicle or a useless set of parts. |
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Unless these conditions are fulfilled, we consider any assistance given to the artels and the co-operatives not only useless, but definitely harmful. |
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Nothing about him is explained at all, in fact, and many of the characters in the film prove to be completely useless and exist only to eat up running time. |
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In 1995, villagers complained about the deteriorating state of the sago palms, which, they claimed, were increasingly useless as they never matured. |
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But I'm salivating at the prospect of buying a wireless with DAB which I know will probably be useless where we live but they look cool, as the kids say these days. |
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Then, because it was useless, redundant, only destructive, or so it seemed, she shrank back again, defeated. |
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It took at least fifteen minutes to open and all the time he was pulling and tearing with useless fingers at the layers of tape and glossy paper, she was watching him. |
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Is she saying she thinks more lefty kids think voting is useless? |
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I probably should've been a bit more schmoozy, but I'm just useless at it. |
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This is not the case certainly with the fine ropes of Manilla hemp, which, though stronger than the best Russian hemp, are almost useless when worn out. |
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Do I become a faculty member in a University, get a tenure, become an Associate Professor and then a Full Professor, publish useless articles, and die? |
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I felt as though I was useless, I just screwed everything up. |
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She thinks of running away but realizes that it would be useless to try. |
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No, it was too much for a dog, a dog who, by all accounts, at the end amounted to nothing more than a useless pile of bones in a wrinkled sack of skin. |
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It was just a useless coach trip to follow a meaningless tradition. |
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The previous night had rendered me absolutely useless, as I had stayed up all night working on the next-to-last chapter of my book, and was exhausted beyond measure. |
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No wonder, many victims readily conclude that thrift and self-reliance are useless and even injurious and that spending and debt are preferable by far. |
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I think it was just hormones or something equally useless and transitory. |
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This book is intended as a treasure trove of useless information. |
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But, after all the tribulation I had given myself about not letting him know how I felt, it would be stupid to make that work useless and give in. |
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Summarizing the plot, a gleeful morass of B-movie humour involving an evil sibling, a bionic bigfoot and radioactive pearls, is not only difficult, but also useless. |
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Throughout the film, we see how society shuns them as unclean and useless. |
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Although this is adequate for some common proteins, it is useless for, say, enzyme complexes that commonly have molecular weights of 5 MDa or more. |
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While antibiotics are hardly a silver bullet and they are useless against viruses, they raise the simple possibility of treatment for bacterial or fungal illnesses. |
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But policies and cheap raw materials are useless if businesses fail to take advantage of them. |
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Although there's not a trace left on the outside, boas, pythons, and blind snakes all have completely useless vestigial hipbones buried in their bodies. |
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It's not all useless back surgery and unnecessary appendectomies and needlessly prolonging Grandma's death throes. |
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This method enhances the drink's natural thirst-quenching qualities, while not getting you so blotto so fast that you are rendered useless as a caregiver to small children. |
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So the vile and useless pop culture anecdotes will continue unabated. |
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I feel seriously underprepared, but I have discovered that briefings from teachers are pretty useless, and I need to find out from the kids what they have actually done. |
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You slimeballs are all here because you're useless at everything else. |
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Outside of the basic reading, writing, and math skills, and having an idea of what's out there, they were just spewing useless information. |
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The Callums were originally seen as useless to the group, until it was realized that they had great skating ability. |
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I was a lightning rod, now cold, now hotflashes, all weather gathered into my epicenter, reality a useless thermometer on the wall. |
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She saw all of the fightings as useless bloodshed and a waste of human life. |
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A huge salary for a government approved civil service timeserver is a sickening proposal and another useless burden on taxpayers. |
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Dog collars draped over mudroom hooks are worn out, oily soft and stretched so thin they are next to useless. |
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Serving mainly to absorb water and to anchor the plant to the ground, the roots are relatively useless for nutrient uptake. |
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Although superseded by their stone successors, timber and earthwork castles were by no means useless. |
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Soon afterwards, it became impossible for people to read Old English, and the texts became useless. |
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Lindwyrms are wingless dragons that look like huge snakes. Some lindwyrms have two tiny feet that are almost useless. |
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We also don't have to pack a bunch of useless kinderspullen and stinky juices and cereals to keep the kiddies entertained while at daycare. |
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He of the fabulous long-range shot or the useless blooter professes to love everything about Rangers. |
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Kitchen tools and gadgets encompass some of the most useful and useless tools in a cook's batterie de cuisine. |
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Interacting with media persons, veteran actor Rishi said the film is purely a crime thriller and there are no useless things in the film. |
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Classification may very well not be useless, but it is never analysis, no matter how baroquely detailed and comprehensive-seeming its categories. |
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The local constable is useless, neither trying to find the Colonel's killer nor protecting the sheepherders from the cattle ranchers. |
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A group of women more useless at laundry than a bacon rasher at a bar mitzvah. |
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You don't have to be a quitter, nor do you have to remain on the couch, indecisive, unmanned, and useless. |
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Having 200,000 entries is all well and good, but the data will be useless unless people can find what they need. |
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Frequently the overseer would come to me and say a certain jackeroo was useless, and would never be any good, when the boy had only just started. |
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Wishing for unlimited money would hyperinflate the market and make your money useless. |
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My brother is useless at most computer games, but he is an awesome PS2 player. |
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Bill never mows the lawn, takes out the trash or anything. He's useless, but I love him anyways. |
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But the videodiscs far outlived the computer system, without which they proved useless. |
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I think it's useless to keep this discussion going. It's like talking to a wall. |
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I tried my best to make him quit smoking, but my efforts were useless. He now smokes six packs a day. |
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The town grows like Topsy after the railway age begins. The fortifications are now quite useless since the city has outgrown them. |
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It is also useless for the 90 percent of molestations that take place in the homes of predators or prey. |
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Danish Aid Association will detonate useless ammunition at the vicinity of Koneen village in the south. |
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Some entomologists assert that it is useless to sugar when ivy is in bloom. |
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There was a vicious rumour that the final was rigged, as the defense seemed useless. |
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There now appear a series of useful improvements that are contained in patents for useless devices. |
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It has been suggested that an oral hearing will almost be as good as useless if the affected person has no prior knowledge of the case. |
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It continues until the entire tuber is oxidized and blackened within two to three days after harvest, rendering it unpalatable and useless. |
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Both John Major and Tony Blair have given peerages and knighthoods to useless deadbeats. |
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Finally, it required a stable viewing platform, rendering the technique useless on the rolling deck of a ship at sea. |
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They felt very sorry for the poor old eleventh company having been buncoed into taking such an awful pack of useless recruits. |
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If the user is unable to identify what is being demonstrated in a reasonable fashion, the map may be regarded as useless. |
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Let's give up the useless, trainspotterish, British habit of glorying in old timetables. |
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He capitulated only when further resistance had become impossible and useless. |
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Using the sophisticated code was useless since the spy merely stole the plain text from the waste basket. |
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The Italian peninsula was left open to all for the recruitment of soldiers, but in reality, this provision was useless for Antony in the East. |
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Many of the objects deposited, especially the weapons, have been made useless by breaking, bending, etc. |
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The moated ramparts, the embattled towers, and the trophied halls, are magnificent and venerable, but useless. |
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Although pinnipeds have a fairly good sense of smell on land, it is useless underwater as their nostrils are closed. |
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But this raised the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless. |
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Old scientific data do not distinguish between the two species, making it useless for determining structural differences between them. |
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I shouted at the screen telling her not to bother but I knew it was useless and we were in for one of those endless two-handers. |
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Without such protection, a coat of arms would be useless as a form of identification and worthless as a piece of private property. |
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The lightning spell was originally pretty powerful, but in the sequel they nerfed it so it became completely useless. |
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He considered Heidegger to be the worst example of such philosophy, which Ayer believed to be entirely useless. |
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Against these causal forces, quarantines and cordons sanitaires were utterly useless. |
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Whether they were mindwiped upon their return to base, or simply terminated like useless equipment, Deutsch never knew. |
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The nuclear physics laboratories of the university, consequently, have been rendered useless. |
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Freeping is one of the reasons Internet surveys are useless as a gauge of public opinion because the results can reflect an organized campaign. |
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They have never before felt so inadequate, useless, unloveable and rejected. |
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He knelt beside Crusher and watched, briefly useless, as she passed her medscanner over the body. Except that it wasn't a body. |
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A student may become a very Daniel Lambert of learning, and remain utterly useless to himself and all others. |
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The creature in Frankenstein, for example, reads books associated with radical ideals but the education he gains from them is ultimately useless. |
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They turned out to be the same sort of detritus as everything else. Junk and mathoms and useless geegaws. |
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Never again can the old-boy network be allowed to protect useless doctors at the expense of patients' lives. |
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He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over. |
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Morris' vision of the future socialist society was centred around his concept of useful work as opposed to useless toil and the redemption of human labour. |
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Female hatchlings, who are useless to foie gras producers, may be drowned in scalding water, suffocated in plastic bags or shredded alive in macerators. |
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Out of anger towards Spain and the unique opportunity to sell something that was useless and not truly his yet, Napoleon decided to sell the entire territory. |
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In middle of April with considering climate conditions used of Ganister and topic methods for controlling useless grasses of dung leafs and narrow leafs. |
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A white-handed, useless young aristocrat, by your account, married to a preacher's daughter, without capital, or useful knowledge, or any handicraft to live by. |
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This was exacerbated by the appointment to the Court of useless, highly paid officials by the Lord Chancellor or Master of the Rolls, many of whom were their friends. |
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Clegg is a useless brown-noser and Miliband is a millionaire playboy. |
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Then there is the prime example of a useless column, the overscaled monument to Nelson in Trafalgar Square, 52 metres high, designed by William Railton. |
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Thomas Varghese is an artist who creates beautiful pieces of art using discarded and useless items and through them he conveys his Christmas message. |
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Consultant John Roberts and Dr Mahesh Goel took out Graham Reeves' left organ instead of the right, which was so severely diseased it was useless. |
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The detective believes that the mind has a finite capacity for information storage, and learning useless things reduces one's ability to learn useful things. |
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Five minutes is the average nookie time for these lazy, useless creatures. |
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The gunk that collects in the corners of the eyes. Gound is the perfect example of a word that is practically useless, and yet still nice to know. |
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I blegged about it all over the Internet, but it was useless. |
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Holding the Zhengtong Emperor in captivity was a useless bargaining chip for the Oirats as long as another sat on his throne, so they released him back into Ming China. |
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The reptiles roared, throwing their heads back in exultation, and threw away their useless weapons, which they could no longer hold efficiently with their clampy hands. |
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And huge sums can be saved by junking expensive and useless weapons systems such as the stealth bomber, the fraudulent case for which is exposed by Shuger. |
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Secondly, as to the composition of the Lords, Meg Russell suggests that the composition must be distinct from the Commons, otherwise it would render the Lords useless. |
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I went over and asked him to let down the clews or corners of the mainsail, which had been drawn up in order to lessen the useless flapping of the sail against the rigging. |
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Why do you clutter up your mind with such useless knowledge? |
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For example, Part II of the phenolic urethane binder system is reactive enough that a half-cup of water can render a 55-gal drum of material useless. |
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This rendered the restrictions on submarines effectively useless. |
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You should use verbose logging sparingly. Turning on verbose logging for every process would result in log files so large they would become useless. |
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My desire evaporates as fast as the sky train that will bring him home to his festering suburb later tonight, a few bahts in his pockets to spend on useless trinkets. |
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