Sentence examples for once helpful from inspiring English sources

Each of these guidebooks was intended to be a comprehensive description of the country or region, with once helpful, and now merely captivating, introductory information about culture and history, customs and the logistics of travel by ship, train or diligence.

A restless nature was once helpful to people who needed to find food sources in the wild, but in today's classrooms, it's often classified as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Dr. Frieden intended his warning, which he has applied to all four New York deaths so far linked to the H1N1 virus, to be at once helpful to those who might be more at risk for the disease and reassuring to those who are not.

Other stories pointed to an "orgy" at the villa; a local priest who had once helped the McCanns removing helpful posters; the McCanns as the "main suspects"; DNA tests confirming Maddy's blood in the hired car; and Maddy sold into "white slavery" by her parents.

Once-helpful distinctions become useless.

But these once-helpful institutions eventually put the Muslim world at a commercial disadvantage.

However, Trending's reliance on clicks and re-shares in this case makes Facebook's once-helpful news module far less useful for everyone.

But the Department of State, once so helpful, itself ran up $28,333 in tickets in 2007, according to data through Dec. 9, the committee says in the report, to be released on Friday.

Children who were once sweet, helpful and good fun to be around turn, almost overnight, into grunting creatures, who wear nothing but black, lie abed until noon and consume 5,000-calorie 5,000-caloriewed immediately by snacks that they are still hungry).

In thinking about Leibniz's positive views on the laws of motion, it might prove once again helpful to first look at his reasons for being dissatisfied with the account offered by Descartes.

While a warm, soft meal is a treat many horses enjoy, and was once considered helpful for its laxative effect, it is not nutritionally necessary.