Sentence examples for it useful only from inspiring English sources

Supporters of the "war on terror" tend to argue that such definitional double standards are unavoidable – yet the result of inconsistency on the part of politicians, journalists and law-enforcement officials has been to empty the term virtually of all meaning, and render it useful only for crude propaganda purposes.

The Epworth Sleepiness Scale is a short instrument focusing on only one dimension of the sleep problem, daytime sleepiness, which therefore makes it useful only in specific circumstances [ 29].

However, it has several limitations compared to conventional gastric histological and serological studies, thus making it useful only in certain patient subpopulations or in specific clinical contexts [ 120– 120].

A single-sample ABC estimator (OneSamp; Tallmon et al. 2008) appears to have considerable potential but has not been rigorously evaluated under a wide range of conditions and assumes a specific type of mutation model that makes it useful only for microsatellite data.

8 Serum AFP level is insensitive, such that about one-third of early-staged HCC patients with small tumors (<3 cm) show same level of AFP as those in healthy subjects, making it useful only to identify late-staged HCC patients.

It's dead, sticky and wet, it sucks you down, nothing grows in it, it's useful only to the potter.

Questioning the validity of schizophrenia as a label is not new — even the architects of the DSM acknowledge that it is useful only insofar as it guides research and treatment.

But it was so computationally demanding that it was useful only in solving the behavior of small molecules.

But, in this case, the way it was conducted is so breathtakingly sloppy that it is useful only as an illustration of how you can play fast and loose with statistics.

(We'll leave "financing" out of the picture at this time, because despite how badly you need it, it will be useful only when you use your business plan to get a good job and move up the ladder).

As a painter and photographer, I can tell you that projecting the picture on the canvas and tracing it is useful only to enlarge and position its components.