Sentence examples for put to useful from inspiring English sources

The people in the countries directly involved will suffer less, and the IMF will have a chance to improve its reputation and be put to useful work where it has a chance to succeed.

The hard part of creating a working quantum computer is keeping enough of its constituent computational elements, called qubits, stable so they can interact and be put to useful work.

BG pics were a bit of a holdover from the MySpace era, but they could be put to useful ends, as with our masthead on the TechCrunch account, or with others who use it as a sort of personal contact info listing.

Their cash-strapped temporary employers, meanwhile, get talented staff they can put to socially useful ends.

Since this depended upon public funds, as did many of the firm's civilian products, workers argued state support be better put to developing more socially useful products.

That can be useful, put to the service of the nation he loves, at a time when America, enmeshed in two wars, needs to cut deals in Iraq, with Iraq's neighbors, and in Afghanistan.

It is sometimes hypothesized that at some moment it was decided that persons detained for a crime or as a result of warfare would be more useful if put to work in some way rather than if killed outright and discarded or eaten.

You can dam it up... put it to useful purposes... deflect it, but you can't argue with it.