Sentence examples for certain utility from inspiring English sources

This hardiness gives Wisconsin sandstones certain utility in the Anthropocene.

The goal is to build a network that optimizes a certain utility function when failures occur.

Such traits might not make for a beloved officeholder, but they could have a certain utility in a political campaign.

The term had a certain utility in business correspondence, when the marital status of a female addressee was unknown.

And weird as it may seem, there is a certain utility in a Web locale dedicated to charting the fortunes of people who are beautiful occupationally.

May does not want to do either of those things but there is a certain utility for her in Tory backbenchers worrying that she is capable of it.

Nowadays, I take the view that a laptop can be more or less empty, apart from Microsoft Office and certain utilities.

The F.C.C. has limited authority over information services but it has vast powers to regulate certain utilities.

The legislation involved consists of a series of acts passed under the authority of the state Constitution, which are: (1) An act creating an Industrial Commission of North Dakota, which is authorized to conduct and manage on behalf of that state certain utilities, industries, enterprises, and business projects, to be established by law.

5Gross rents are measured to include certain utilities payments.

That list could include a food company like Campbell's Soup, a general consumer-products company like Procter & Gamble, a retailer like Wal-Mart, a large computer company like IBM or Hewlett-Packard, or certain utilities, like Duke Power and others.