Sentence examples for rather than useful from inspiring English sources

I would say their presence is disruptive rather than useful".

A little further west is another English Heritage property, Lanercost Priory whose monks pioneered the General Wade policy of stone-pillaging but made something beautiful rather than useful.

The government was criticized in April for buying fighter jets from Russia for approximately $740 million, which some analysts saw as being costly status symbols rather than useful weaponry.

And the measure would produce windfall profits for retailers and producers rather than useful tax receipts for the state.But partially devolved Scotland does not have the power to set taxes, whereas the government does have the votes to enact minimum pricing.

Devil's advocates are often tedious rather than useful interlocutors.

This is more "cute and fun" rather than "useful in any way" but it's nice to know you can pull it off.

No wonder WAP was a flop.Yet the industry went on making the same mistake, promoting technologies rather than creating useful services using those technologies.

Anyone teaching a class would reasonably worry that students using Facebook were gossiping rather than learning useful information from their network of friends.

Virtually all the big providers used a business model based on extracting public subsidies, rather than providing useful education.

In the not-too-distant past, Braille on bleach bottles used to have paternalistic messages like "irritant" or "do not drink" rather than giving useful information about what the product was, like "kitchen surface cleaner".

The analogy, however, was pushed too far, and became doctrinal rather than merely useful.