Sentence examples for makes for useful from inspiring English sources

So what makes for useful expertise in the kinds of geopolitical issues that the Pentagon's futures market would have covered?

Nonetheless, "Capital Offense" does a highly informed, if decidedly opinionated, job of situating these developments within a historical context, and the book makes for useful and succinct reading at a time when the state of the economy — and President Obama's handling of the recession — are being vociferously debated in Washington and around the country.

There's plenty of fascinating detail for the reader, here--the kind of analysis that makes for useful sales talk.

Because of its failure to deliver the evocative "little differences" which make a film a classic, Elysium's excellent website makes for useful supplemental viewing.

Neither glibness or prolixity make for useful advice.

I'm guessing that slippery Stanley bumped her off because he realised she couldn't sing for toffee and the front-page headlines would make for useful publicity.

Yes... because the Hell's Angels gang back in Norway did a lot of international trading, and fine art made for useful collateral.

However, scales of governance, institutions and the regional territory of electricity providers (for example) can make for useful scales of analysis.

And his tales from the underground — for example, getting stranded on a northbound No. 4 train for half an hour — have made for useful anecdotes at his news conferences.

Although greenhouse gases are most likely not considered when calculating the amount of air time for the competition vs. the amount of commercial air time sold to turn a profit, it might make for useful conversation before the Summer Olympics.

This makes for a useful collaborative team space and keeps group projects on track.