Sentence examples for poor tool for from inspiring English sources

Still, logic is a poor tool for analyzing political speech in this election.

In that way, Twitter is a very poor tool for judging popular sentiment in Iran and trying to assess who won the presidential election.

Additionally, military force is also a surprisingly poor tool for shaping the behavior of other countries, except when only their peripheral interests are involved.

The Rev. Carl F. Burke, a Buffalo clergyman who works with delinquent boys, has found the King James version of the Bible a poor tool for the task.

"Criminalization is a poor tool for regulating H.I.V. infection and transmission," Edwin Cameron, a justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals in South Africa, said in a plenary session.

The New Yorker, April 3 , 1965P. 35 The Rev. Carl F. Burke, a Buffalo clergyman who works with delinquent boys, has found the King James version of the Bible a poor tool for the task.

A more concrete problem is that postseason series, best-of-five or best-of-seven sprints, are poor tools for separating the evenly matched teams that play them.

Robust variability in the amount of sleep obtained by drivers indicate that models are relatively poor tools for ensuring that all employees obtain sufficient sleep.

In developing countries, distortionary measures that tax, subsidize, or regulate food and energy prices tend to be poor tools for improving income distribution, and frequently have the opposite effect.

They've capitalized on the photo and video limitations of Myspace and other sites (restrictions on number of photos that may be uploaded, and/or poor tools for doing so) by allowing users to upload photos and videos very easily and display them on these third party sites.

Despite their popularity in our culture, cynicism and pessimism have been shown to be poor tools for creating a sense of well-being, although they may provide an illusory sense of power for a short time.