Sentence examples for matter of utility from inspiring English sources

Bett Padgett, who heads the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society, which petitioned the federal government for funds to restore Bodie Island's once-crumbling lighthouse, warns of solar flares knocking out satellites.All that is true, but defending lighthouses as a matter of utility surely misses the point.

Finally, Hume's proposed resolution also resembles Gassendi's notion that we might simply posit, as a matter of utility, the conformity of all remaining unenumerated particulars.

Such society is not only a matter of utility or convenience but reflects an innate tendency of the person to seek out his fellows and enter into spiritual association with them.

In an economic evaluation of exercise, with health gains expressed in QALY, the monetarized cost of time is only a matter of utility in use.

But the rest of the formality-foiling 1960's made even the women's side of the glove game into a matter of wintry utility.

The optimist's narrow concern with matters of social utility, therefore, "leaves out something that is vital" to our conception of moral responsibility and the justification of the practices associated with it.

It concerns matters of practical utility, such as reading and writing, grammar and poetry (someway close to the "trivium" sciences), but also magic, mechanics, arts, trades, history and so on.

Beyond matters of strict utility, we use our belongings to enrich our lives at home in many ways.

The number of power losses at General Motors has been reduced by two-thirds since the contract began in 1995, and Detroit Edison has improved enough to avoid any penalties so far for power sags, according to John C. Anderson, director of energy services for G.M. Addressing the new economy's power needs, however, is not simply a matter of improving the utility grid.

That is, Hume, following thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, points out that rewards and punishments serve to cause people to act in some ways and not in others and that this is clearly a matter of considerable social utility (T, 2.3.2.5/410; EU, 8.2897 98).

Work is not only a matter of wages and utility in anticipation.