Sentence examples for partly useful from inspiring English sources

As I tightened the laces of my snazzy Nike hiking shoes, an eyelet on the left shoe popped, rendering the lace only partly useful.

Electronic mosquito repellents or a $30 coffee sling -- a strap that suspends hot beverages from interior tent poles -- seem only partly useful.

This rated quality as: 1 – not useful, 2 – partly useful, 3 – moderately good, 4 – very good (safe for clinical practice) and 5 – excellent.> The principal investigator had directly observed the majority of the children in a clinical context as they were videoed, and made a clinical judgement of PVC quality against the McFaul system, which was used as the gold criterion standard.

Since citric acid is partly used up during fermentation tartaric acid will be a useful addition for very low acidity fruits; it is also a good yeast nutrient.

It was erected over decades, partly on useful innovations and the desire for higher returns and partly as a way to avoid the cost of regulation.

The merging operation can solve the disocclusion problem partly, because the useful background information in C SS and M SS is limited.

But on their own those data didn't prove terribly useful, partly because complex behaviours don't tend to be controlled by individual brain areas.

Consequentialists can of course portray punishment as useful partly in virtue of its expressive character (see Lacey 1988; Braithwaite & Pettit 1990): but a portrayal of punishment as a mode of moral communication has been central to some recent versions of retributivism.

It is partly because we provide useful balance between other big beasts in the EU.

In 2007 the CBOE's volume of contracts reached almost 1 trillion.Trading has exploded partly because derivatives are useful.

And paper handouts are still a presence at meetings partly because they are useful for taking notes.