Sentence examples for Rarely useful from inspiring English sources

Until recently, serological tests for antibodies to HSV were rarely useful to diagnosis and not routinely used in clinical practice.

Prophesying in a time of trouble is always tempting, but rarely useful.

In both cases, it should be noted, preseason results are often misleading and rarely useful.

Some advocates say that the F.D.A. should also require comparative studies, but Dr. Robert Temple, the agency's associate director of medical policy, said that such trials were rarely useful.

If hand-washing is the first lesson of the SARS epidemic to apply to today's swine flu outbreak, the others are: Masks, the symbol of protection, are only rarely useful.

While we speak only for ourselves, we have seen firsthand that many standard approaches are rarely useful in eliciting reliable intelligence, and often serve only to harden a detainee's resistance.

You can choose to hide any of your system icons, which can be useful for items you rarely use.

Although there are many Web APIs that could be useful for M&S applications, they are rarely used.

The statute was rarely used until recently, when the Justice Department apparently found it useful for cases arising out of the financial crisis.

Inversion therapy is rarely used to treat chronic pain, so it is only useful for mild relief.

What it does have is useful social lubricants such as please (absent or rarely used in some other languages).