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But the "farce" served a useful purpose because it showed that "even when the threat of British withdrawal from the EU is real the other member states are still not prepared to offer anything of substance to make us think it might be worthwhile staying".
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"It's one of these areas that's gray," Sheriff Dailey said, "but I think it's serving a very useful purpose because the more miserable we can make these knuckleheads, the better.
As licensed squats remind us all, they sometimes serve a useful purpose just by being there.
George Bush, Dick Cheney and their cohorts may beg to differ, because they believe that their violent actions have served a useful purpose regardless of the cost, financial or otherwise.
The box serves a useful purpose.
Their problem is finding a useful purpose.
It serves a useful purpose sometimes.
Issuing forward guidance had served a useful purpose, she insisted.
Despite - or possibly because - of its longueurs, Three Sisters is a masterful expression of how exasperating people become when deprived of a useful purpose in life.
But the bill has already served a useful purpose.
"You could say that once upon a time it served a useful purpose, in confining Germany.
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