Sentence examples for serves a valuable function from inspiring English sources

Unlike most comics on the fringe, Stewart Lee is in the fortunate position of being able to sell out all the dates at his chosen venue several times over, but his poster still serves a valuable function.

It is further argued by some observers that the House of Lords serves a valuable function by providing a national forum of debate free from the constraints of party discipline.

Though the channel is still a moneyloser, airing 20 games, it serves a valuable function, sparking demand from rival broadcasters to carry the games on terms very favorable to the Leafs.

But "Shahs" could actually serve a valuable function.

This would change, Mr. Gephardt said, mostly because committees serve a valuable function.

Credit-default swaps are vilified, by contrast, but they serve a valuable function.

Y.S. Chi '83, management-committee chairman of the scientific and medical research publisher Elsevier, said that subscription journals will continue to serve a valuable function even when content is available for free.

Historically, the parties have served a valuable function in aggregating and reconciling interest-group pressures; they will be less able to resist such pressures in a campaign finance system that drives them to use the groups as their surrogates for raising money and communicating with the voters.

Considering that these cells have been preserved through evolution they must serve a valuable function.

As noted by Reason and Lucas (1984) diaries "serve a valuable function as wide-gauge trawl nets, picking up the more salient types of lapse" (p. 56).

"But I think they (we) serve a valuable function and help make democracy work.