Moshoeshoe quickly appreciated the utility of firearms and horses in the new warfare and of missionaries as diplomatic intermediaries.
Mahan appreciated the utility of naval history for the discovery of strategic constants that is, principles of strategy that have remained valid throughout technological change.
But no one really appreciated the utility of seismometers until 2003, when the instruments picked up magnitude-4 and -5 quakes from the Greenland ice sheet from halfway around the world, says glaciologist Chris Larsen of the Geophysical Institute at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
I don't know about you, but I open a lot of new tabs every day, and I appreciated the utility of the old new tab page as much as I dislike the idea of Google constantly guessing at what I might want to read.
To appreciate the utility of the new scale, which was intended to be analogous to the Richter scale once used to measure earthquakes, consider the question that investors faced as stocks plunged last September: Was this a once-in-a-lifetime market blowout, one from which it would take several years to recover?
We appreciate the utility of looking at multiple people's reservations and will consider that for a future mobile release.
Vehicle assistance service OnStar has always struck me as slightly creepy, but I can appreciate its utility unfamiliar locations and emergency situations.
When presented with deductive proofs, students frequently find them unconvincing (Chazan, 1993), and fail to appreciate the utility of deductive reasoning for communicating generalized arguments based on logical inference (Harel & Sowder, 1998).
This project demonstrated the utility of citizen science to gather a data set across a large geographic area on a feasible budget, while providing opportunities for professional aquarists to understand the acoustic environment of their systems and appreciate the utility of research to improve animal management.
The lesson here is that Apple has always said — and will always say — whatever it needs to in public as it bides its time, continues its analysis and waits until its target mainstream market will appreciate the utility of what it's developing.
We appreciate the utility of direct comparisons between learners and non-learners.
