Sentence examples for is useless in that from inspiring English sources

On questions of fact, therefore, even the Pope (who, Pascal accepted, was an authoritative teacher of revealed truths) could be mistaken, and it is inappropriate to appeal to any authority apart from one's senses to decide a factual question: 'authority is useless in that context' (Preface to the Traité du vide: I, 452).

Oscar Wilde said that "art is useless", in that it has no utility and yet it is central to our "humanness" as perhaps its most central element.

Critics say nuclear weapons are useless in that they could never be used and would not combat the new threats from international terrorism.

Sadly, Lively doesn't really have an emergency notification system in case someone has fallen and can't get up nor is it particularly useful if a loved one wanders off – without a GPS tracking system, it's useless in that case.

In conclusion, given these data, it is premature to decide that echocardiography is useless in detecting factors that predispose patients to endocarditis.

However, there is one wall in Kabul that is useless in this war, but provides a physical timeline of Afghanistan's history of conflict, which stretches back more than a thousand years.

A lot of the data that is useless in a court of law is still important historically and for truth-telling, of course.

That reason is useless in the face of emotion — and, perhaps unintentionally, that metaphor may be as well?

In a new research paper, he argues that the DNA of modern dogs is so mixed up that it is useless in figuring out when and where dogs originated.

In order to verify that Theorem 1.2 is useless in proving the existence of fixed points of T, we need to show that (1.2) does not hold.

This does not mean that exercise is useless in alleviating depressive symptoms.