Sentence examples for are useful rather from inspiring English sources

We are useful, rather than important, thanks to the hangover from our imperial heyday: that permanent seat on the UN security council, for example, and our ability to set an example to others.

His season averages of 27 with the bat and 30 with the ball are useful rather than outstanding, but with Bresnan it's always been about the timing of his contributions – as last week showed.

"The mistake the Psychometrics Centre made in the negotiation is that they believed that models are useful, rather than data," he said.

"They can be used to make something that is useful rather than making just anything," he says.

It's a credit to Sfar that the use of this artistic double is useful, rather than indulgent.

We'll need to be useful rather than invasive though – there's a fine line between being helpful and stalking.

Such studies attempt to be useful rather than broad or necessarily definitive for all time to come.

They gave them ugly metal boxes and told them they'd be useful, rather than working out what they wanted or needed, and making the products seem aspirational".

Agnostics and believers ought to find this cold-hearted promotion of religion as being useful rather than true considerably more repulsive than we do; luckily, these ideas are not all of the story about Eliot and belief.

He likened the challenge to how Google persuaded computer users that ads could be useful rather than annoying, by promising that only relevant ads would be displayed alongside search results.

Second, even if assorted environmental pressures could be aggregated in the way footprinters advocate, WWF's predictions would still look mysteriously gloomy.In principle, there is nothing wrong with trying to come up with a common unit of environmental pressure, provided the simplification is useful rather than misleading.