Sentence examples for handy formula from inspiring English sources

It's a handy formula by which to test the weasel words brigade; many fail and would this time if pressed.

"Picking a fight with themselves" seems a handy formula for the plight of Rankin's leading men, even in the swift and satirical pages of Doors Open.

This US Department of Energy webpage has a handy formula for estimating the energy use of various household appliances, including the iron.

It is also easy to poke fun at a conference that advises invitees to monitor their own greenhouse gas emissions: the forum provided a handy formula to determine how much carbon dioxide each guest was likely to produce during the week.

A handy formula for a magazine feature is "X gets all the attention - but why don't we focus on the far more interesting and neglected Y?" The story of the neglected finally receiving their just deserts is one we love to hear: not just because we can cast ourselves in the same role, but also because we can experience a warm moral glow at the underdog getting their due.

But as you identify high-value decisions, make sure you don't miss everyday decisions that add up over time: decision value multiplied by frequency is a handy formula to remember.

Various handy formulae are presented here to describe the particle motion, with these applications in mind.

These data are fitted so as to obtain handy formulae, providing e.g. the velocity of the freely moving sphere with a 1% error.

The importance of this measure of noncompactness is given by the fact that in certain Banach spaces it can be expressed by means of handy formulas.

Definitions like (1) or (2) merely condense some trivial idioms into handy formulas; they don't deserve the grand label "theory": there is no theoretical weight behind them (cf. Woozley 1949, chap. 6; Davidson 1969; Blackburn 1984, chap. 7.1).

Perhaps one could imitate that formula, and suggest a handy rule of thumb: the best artist's films are a meeting of the arcade and the atelier.