Sentence examples for more useful purpose from inspiring English sources

Pierce learned hours before game time that he had been fined $25,000 by the N.B.A. for a "menacing gesture" — allegedly gang-related — during Game 3. Before Wednesday's game, he issued a statement denying it was a gang sign, then went out and put his hands to a more useful purpose.

For Sony, it serves another, more useful purpose.

The winds of change, imaginary currents of invention and practicality, often find their way by slowly drifting into an urban neighborhood that has the potential to be reinvigorated into an area with a more useful purpose.

On the other hand, I would like to see a discussion of RRM and other analogous folds at the end of the manuscript, when it could serve a more useful purpose of establishing some trends in evolution (do we see lots of small ligand-binding domains evolving from nucleic-acid binding domains? How about the other way around? And so on).

This methodology, which has been field-tested and revised by the WHO, attempts to quantify information that is usually very difficult to quantify, and while it does not directly measure corruption itself, it serves the more useful purpose of identifying areas where key informants perceive that there are vulnerabilities to corruption in a consistent and systematic manner.

"He wasted billions and billions of dollars that could have been spent on far more useful purposes.

There's also no question that the $70 million at issue could have gone to more useful purposes.

On his calculations when we burn fossil fuels rather than save them for more useful purposes we are incurring a loss worldwide of between $8.8bn and $9.3bn dollars a day.

Rather, it demonstrates that given a large enough data set, fast enough processors, and a sophisticated enough algorithm, computers can begin to accomplish tasks that used to be completely left in the realm of human perception — like recognizing cat videos on the web (and other, perhaps more useful purposes).

Frustrated students making costly spending decisions, a diversion of tax dollars from more useful purposes, and businesses unable to recruit workers with the proper training.

"One of the more useful purposes to which a historian can devote his or her energies," writes the author, "is the correction of false historical beliefs and the elimination of simplified stereotypes". Academic, well-researched, extensively documented, "La Familia" is unlikely to capture the wide readership necessary to do away with stereotypes about Chicanos.