Tyrie's complaint is that the minutes of the failed Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS were next to useless for investigators conducting postmortems.
But, whereas the Clinton administration was all too effectively hamstrung by their investigations and the threat of impeachment, our guess this time is that if Issa defies his party's leadership and insists on conducting endless negative and ultimately useless hearings, it will rebound on him and his Republican allies.
The judge told McCormick as he sat impassive in the dock: "Your fraudulent conduct in selling so many useless devices for simply enormous profit promoted a false sense of security and in all probability materially contributed to causing death and injury to innocent individuals".
In a typical batch of nanotubes, as much as 30percentt of them act as a metal, constantly conducting electricity (unlike a semiconductor), making them useless as transistors.
The authors conclude that bioequivalence of endogenous substances conducted with standard procedures in most cases is a useless exercise.
They sometimes talk about "expressive conduct," which can seem like another way of saying "useless speech": utterances that do little more than disclose a point of view.
If the police conduct an illegal search, or follow improper procedure, any evidence obtained is useless.
According to respondents, once the soul and spirit departs from the body at death, the body and its parts are useless because the soul becomes 'a complete being' capable of conducting all functions.
A study may be misleading, useless, or even harmful, even though it seems to be perfectly designed, conducted, analyzed, and reported.
But sovereigns must conduct these as judiciously and effectively as their states' internal affairs, for it is useless to have internal peace if a state is externally weak.
