Sentence examples for lost their utility from inspiring English sources

He distinguished between continuing customs that maintained their function or meaning and those that had both lost their utility and were poorly integrated with the rest of culture.

Sure, they made sense when records were the standard medium for recorded music, but when music became fundamentally portable they lost their utility (though not their retro charm).

The idea is we can use these agents alongside conventional drugs that have lost their utility because of the emergence of resistance.

When penicillins lost their utility as monotherapy for most disease states, penicillins and cephalosporins that were more potent were developed in an effort to retain the favorable clinical properties of the β-lactam antibiotics.

The most baby-centric features, like those tracking the child's breastfeeding or napping habits, obviously lose their utility over time.

Users who are not members might be able to download digitized recordings with a feature that causes them to lose their utility after a certain period.

Eleven emergency public-alert sirens for the Indian Point nuclear power plant lost their connection to the local utility for more than two hours on Thursday as the utility replaced a wooden pole that had snapped in the wind the night before, officials said yesterday.

In California, private utilities, which supply 80% of customers, lost their monopoly last year; municipally-owned utilities are not yet obliged to open their markets.The removal of legal obstacles to competition, says Graham Shuttleworth of National Economic Research Associates, a consultancy, is only one of two steps in opening electricity markets.

Even when sport utility vehicles lost their allure earlier this decade, pickups hung on, fueled by the need among builders and business owners to replace their workhorses, and by the need of some drivers to own the biggest wheels on the block.

The governor, speaking at a National Guard armory in Somerset, said that while 167,000 of the 390,000 homes without power lost their lights in the northeaster, utility companies were working quickly.

Subsidies for renewable energy are running at €16 billion a year in Germany (and rising); the cumulative cost is around €60 billion.Next, utilities have lost their investment role.