Sentence examples for as a serviceable from inspiring English sources

They fall because they have too few friends left.Fall, however, Suharto did, in 1998, disqualifying Indonesia's recent history as a serviceable model for Than Shwe.

In Mike Nichols's 2001 TV-movie version of Margaret Edson's play "Wit," McDonald struck me as a serviceable actress, but not a standout.

What started out as a serviceable electropop song has been given a tropical house remix for its official release, because it's 2016.

Failure as a learning tool ("instructive and authoritative"), as a womb for success, at the very least as a serviceable excuse to smoke a Montecristo cigar – these things people will discuss with me.

United's very pursuit of Bale last summer underlined an internal chaos of their own: a club now determined to go out and buy a marquee signing in each summer transfer window, yet lacking so much as a serviceable defence and not even sure whether the Welshman would go the same way as the last player they paid out a huge sum to Real for: Angel Di Maria.

Writing in Mojo magazine, John Harris describes "This Guitar" as "a serviceable sequel … in which GH 1) does a neat Dylan impression, and 2) plays yet another lovely slide solo".

Djibouti has other advantages for the American military as well, including a serviceable airport and harbor.

The Devour comes with an 8 gigabyte microSD memory card, which can be replaced with one as large as 16 gigabytes, a serviceable 3.1 inch touchscreen and a lackluster 3-megapixel camera.

There are swaths of material here, and Tyldum and Moore have fashioned something as sturdy, as tweedy, and as serviceable as the jackets sported by their hero.

Not even the most die-hard Broadway nostalgist could describe Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison's Charleston-flavored score for "The Drowsy Chaperone" as more than a serviceable pastiche of Jazz Age froth.

"Nuremberg" is the story of a young American soldier of mixed parentage, assigned to be a translator at the trials, who discovers that he is more personally connected to the proceedings than he anticipated, and as such is a serviceable, if schematic, device to explore a fascinating time and place.