Sentence examples for in effect, useless from inspiring English sources

I want to warn Tesco Hudl tablet users that the retailer has withdrawn software support which means if you try to restore your tablet to factory settings, it will not restart and is, in effect, useless.

Even for those fortunate enough to find some cash — the government has set a temporary $66 daily limit for withdrawals — a newly released 2,000-rupee 2,000-rupee in effect useless for daily purchases banknotemost merchants can't make change.

Even for those fortunate enough to find some cash — the government has set a temporary $66 daily limit for withdrawals — a newly released 2,000-rupee 2,000-rupee in effect useless for daily purchases banknotemost merchants can't make change.

It will be up to the winning bidders somehow to coax the stations to give up their valuable frequencies; but most stations have refused to budge, since this would usually mean going off the air entirely.If the stations do not give way, the wireless licences will, in effect, be useless.

A pundit making that admission would in effect be saying that everything he has said and done for the past several years was not just useless but harmful, actively misleading readers about the state of the debate.

Instead of thanking the PM for suspending collective responsibility over the referendum – so that she can in effect call her boss useless, a failure in the greatest challenge of his political career, and still keep her job – Patel says that his most senior official is stitching the whole thing up.

Brocchi (1814; Dominici 2010; Dominici and Eldredge 2010) says, in effect, that it is useless to study lineages of Mesozoic fossils (including invertebrates ammonoids are wholly extinct, as are most other Mesozoic molluscan taxa) as they lead nowhere: they shed no light on the origin of the modern fauna.

The IRA may have, in effect, rendered its war machine useless by destroying or sealing away forever the overwhelming majority of its arsenal, but the Ulster loyalists have failed to follow suit, and hold on to hundreds of guns, grenades, powergel explosive and rocket launchers.

In other words, the over-parameterized model naturally reduces, but does not abolish, the effect of useless parameters, but is logically penalized in model comparison.

NOT that knowledge of the January Effect is useless.

You've basically got a brain but it's trapped in a useless body.