Sentence examples for seemed useful from inspiring English sources

But it is true that the Republican Party has not, as a rule, shied away from using race in politics when it seemed useful (the Willie Horton ad in the 1988 general election, the whisper campaign about John McCain's dark-skinned daughter in the 2000 primary, the birther nonsense in the 2008 and 2012 general elections).

Our more detailed findings about which problems students were able to independently solve, given their approximate stage classifications, and which problems seemed useful to differentiating between students at different stages, gives us and other researchers some insight into what types of problems may be useful when making a similar written assessment.

At the very least, certain forms of irony and social satire in which I'd trafficked no longer seemed useful.

It seemed useful to recall that it wasn't only extremist Muslims who blew themselves up to inflict damage on an enemy.

As he grew older, he discarded the forms that no longer interested him or seemed useful to his purposes as an independent composer.

In Hitler's death camps, twins were singled out for especially terrible "experiments" because they seemed useful, not because they were considered any less human than Hitler's other victims.

The device is currently in use in our centre, and seems useful for the nursing staff and the children.

The use of steroids does not seem useful in preventing hypersensitivity in patients having experienced previous reactions.

All this might seem useful ammunition for the far left to use against those New Labour sell-outs.

The models ask different questions using different data, but several broad comparisons seem useful.

Other than that, the things I gather are things I could imagine using in an art project, if they look interesting and seem useful to me.