Sentence examples for obviously helpful from inspiring English sources

"It was obviously helpful to Haim to have someone he could talk to in the White House".

That will weaken banks' ability to cut costs in downturns (see chart), which is not obviously helpful in ensuring the stability of the business.

Beyond this, it is obviously helpful to a basketball player to be able to see a little more than the next man, and the remark is frequently made about basketball superstars that they have unusual peripheral vision.

I rarely remember dreams, let alone give them titles, but I presume that my unconscious self (not usually so lucid or so obviously helpful) was engaged at some deep level in the "writing process", as we glibly call it - as if sentences roll out smoothly on a factory production line rather than being manually wrought in a hellishly tedious part of the brain.

Darwin realized, while writing "On the Origin of Species," that adaptive fitness seemed to reign when it came to those features which were obviously helpful to an animal making a living in a hard world: long beaks to get at hidden insects; long necks to eat hidden leaves; long infancies to learn hidden cultural secrets.

All the results are obviously helpful for further optimization of geometric design systems.

In his filing, Mr. Gupta argues that prosecutors should be required to turn over any evidence "in which the government expressed its own doubts about Rajaratnam's veracity – or simply that he is not to be trusted, even if stopping short of calling him a liar – [because it] would obviously be helpful to the defense, and equally obviously is known to the government".

Johnston is humane, and philosophically nimble, but his rarefied and almost scholastic definition of the ideally non-idolatrous God is not obviously very helpful to anyone but a rarefied scholastic: "The Highest One = the Outpouring of Existence Itself by way of its exemplification in ordinary existents for the sake of the self-disclosure of Existence Itself".

"I don't see cellphones as a magic bullet per se, though they're obviously very helpful," says Ken Banks, founder of kiwanja.net, a nonprofit entity that provides free text-messaging software and information-technology support to grass-roots enterprises, mostly in Africa.

And that has an uncertain effect on returns it's obviously very helpful in bad markets and is a drag in good markets but the beauty of it is that it reduces your impulsive behavior.

It follows the person as they move, too, keeping the face in frame and in focus throughout the capture, which is obviously very helpful should you unfortunately ever need to make use of the footage afterward for reporting a crime to the authorities.