Sentence examples for but a poor guide from inspiring English sources

The cold war, for example, is a good organiser for world affairs but a poor guide to social history.

Whether or not Mr Piketty succeeds in changing policy, he will have influenced the way thousands of readers and plenty of economists think about these issues.Dig deeper: "Capital" is a great piece of scholarship, but a poor guide to policy (May 2014) Why did the French version of "Capital" not make the same splash?

But headlines are a poor guide to history.

The sublime offers solace and inspiration, but it makes a poor guide to policy.

But these prices are a poor guide for India's monetary policy.

Interview and referee ratings may well be successful in screening out unsuitable candidates, but appear to be a poor guide to performance on the course.

But past performance may be a poor guide to the future.

The political scientist Peter Hoberg (the great Richard Jenkins, who had a similar role as the lonely economics professor in The Visitor), welcomes him with great affection but turns out to be a poor guide when it comes to moving on in life.

But this measure tends to be a poor guide to peaks and troughs.

"She is an ex-grammar school girl," said the Times, "but autobiography in this case would be a poor guide to good policy".

Not every procedure should be allowed, but a general sense of what is "unnatural" is a poor guide to what to ban.