Sentence examples for be useful against from inspiring English sources

The application of lytic bacteriophages can be used for the treatment of several infections and could be useful against new drug-resistant bacterial strains.

When Sec. of Defense McNamara announced the decision to go ahead with the ABM system, he said that it would not possible defend us against the large Soviet striking force but would be useful against a smaller Chinese attack.

Access to such compounds, which are already being used in humans and routinely produced, could dramatically accelerate efforts to identify antiviral compounds that would be useful against vaccinia and variola viruses.

At the time, three drugs were known to be useful against ALL.

Whether advertising can ever be useful against terrorism is another question.

Militarily, shells and rockets with chemical warheads may be useful against dense force concentrations.

GENE mapping is useful against all sorts of pests including tree thieves.

(Coincidentally, another Aventis subsidiary makes melarsoprol and a third makes pentamidine, which is useful against early stages of the disease).

Nothing in our stockpile of weapons is useful against the MIGs the Soviets have supplied to Egypt.

Eradication and exclusion of host plants has been useful against citrus canker, angular leaf spot of cotton, fire blight, and crown gall.

But if an antibiotic is useful against only one type of bacterium, relatively few people need it during its patent life.