Sentence examples for could be useless from inspiring English sources
The controversy follows the revelations from the scientist's sister Maxine that he could be "useless" in everyday life.
It is littered with scaremongering, including: "Around a third of all humans could easily die off" and "The viruses killed the young and healthy" and also runs a handy sidebar on "why facemasks could be useless".
Independent: Prepared for the apocalypse: Mexico's masked metropolis Daily Express: Killer flu: it is here Daily Express: Why face masks could be useless CARLA BRUNI UPSTAGED BY SPAIN'S 'REAL PRINCESS' The photo-opportunity was just too good to let slip away.
Secondly, when concept drift happens, previous support vectors could be useless.
Although signature-based bot detection techniques are accurate, they could be useless when bot variants are encountered.
And by the time it's finished, the station could be useless, outdated-a space-age white elephant by any rational cost-benefit analysis.
Next (though this could be me being useless, but I don't think so) I couldn't get it to exchange files via Bluetooth with my Macbook Air, which means that you can't dump a few photos on to the device on the fly – you have to fire up iTunes and go through the whole syncing process.
In White Noise, Don DeLillo's anxiety-ridden narrator Jack Gladney is tormented by the concept of masculinity and how he measures up: "What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet – fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes?" And what if, instead of a broken faucet it is a broken mind?
My son studied the popular programming language C++ in his home-school year; that knowledge could be economically useless soon.
(In the unlikely event that this trend were to persist, it could be entirely useless in a few decades).
"Consumers would revolt if this was the case, and applications could be rendered useless," said Senator Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican, who promulgated industry arguments during the committee meeting.
