Sentence examples for it seemed useful from inspiring English sources

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said that the letters had emerged in discussions about the code, and that "it seemed useful to publish them now".

But it is true that the Republican Party has not, as a rule, shied away from using race in politics when it seemed useful (the Willie Horton ad in the 1988 general election, the whisper campaign about John McCain's dark-skinned daughter in the 2000 primary, the birther nonsense in the 2008 and 2012 general elections).

It seemed useful to recall that it wasn't only extremist Muslims who blew themselves up to inflict damage on an enemy.

In principle, we could have finished the paper at this point, but it seemed useful to include two more things.

At this stage in our nation's experience, it seemed useful to ask whether the Government believes in that idea.

To address this, it seemed useful to combine qualitative and traditional quantitative methods in this study.

Since the terms antigenicity and immunogenicity are sometimes used imprecisely, it seems useful to specify that, in this report, immunogenicity refers to the ability of substances, e.g., protein conjugates of mPEG, HO-PEG, or t-butoxyPEG (t-BuO-PEG), to induce the production of antibodies in experimental animals or in humans.

However, given the large amount of patients who prefer psychological treatment instead of ADM [ 9] and the difficulties that many patients have with long term use of ADM [ 7], it seems useful to investigate whether a relatively short, group-based course such as MBCT can help patients taper off their antidepressants.

Even then, he doubted that it would be any use to anyone: but still, his paper concluded, "it seems useful now to present at least some quantitative estimation of the effect".

It seems useful to look back at a short piece Steavenson wrote for us in 2006, about life as a reporter in wartime Iraq: We journalists sat around the hotel coffee shop, swapping nasty stories.

Even though the value of α is zero for the existing approaches, it seems useful to have a general α in (13) as this allows us to capture other approaches which have been proposed in the context of path-based approaches.