Sentence examples for in the way of utility from inspiring English sources

Sometimes the simplicity gets in the way of utility, though.

Some apps and games have been enhanced for Dynamic Perspective, but it is a gimmick, with little in the way of utility most of the time.

The problem is still that it doesn't offer a lot in the way of utility to justify replacing something people often cherish (a real watch) or simply don't wear, and for £250-odd it certainly isn't going to be cheap; if it's bundled cheaply or for free, there's no clear user wish for it.

There is no real "camera" app and it's a nice-to-have feature that does not add much in the way of daily utility.

However, the stringent conditions of the traditional concept of consent in medical research stand in direct contradiction to the prospective collection approach – the requirement to specify specific research in advance standing in the way of extracting maximum research utility from collected samples.

At times the language of the patent sounds as if Amazon is thinking of physical item delivery in the way a utility might approach supplying water or electricity to homes — by forecasting demand spikes and lulls, and tweaking its pipeline accordingly, but above all by keeping the stuff flowing (ergo having trucks constantly filled with packages in continuous perpetual motion).

Dickerson was schooled in the ways of water by serving on the board of a small municipal utility in Colorado in the late 1970s.

Utility values were scaled and normalized in a way that the sum of utility points across all levels is equal to the number of attributes (factors) times 100.

The results of the investigation, which would explore everything from underground devices that could alert the public to stray voltage threats to improvements in the way that the state provides oversight of the utility, would be made public, Mr. Lane said.

Utility values were scaled and normalized by this method in such a way that the sum of utility points across all levels is equal to the number of attributes (factors) times 100.

A consumer-oriented transactive model maintains balance through decentralized coordination instead of imposed, hierarchical control i.e., consumers should interact with utilities in the same way that utilities interact with one another.