Sentence examples for serving a useful function from inspiring English sources

He also said he thought that Colbert was serving a useful function.

While there isn't all that much skill involved in killing an animal with a high-powered rifle, a case could be made that ridding the nation of its deer and rabbit surplus is serving a useful function.

But some public policy analysts say that the advocate can serve a useful function.

But they say it is also because the bogus lawyers serve a useful function.

It's made of concrete, it's inexpensive and, worst of all, it serves a useful function.

The scorpionfly is harmless to humans and serves a useful function in nature as a scavenger.

Dr. Ruiz participated in a conference at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington in March 2005 to determine whether the Biosphere could still serve a useful function.

But really they're a last desperate plea for a train-track world in which men serve a useful function.

By encapsulating them in specially treated concrete, they can be dumped and serve a useful function, too.

Besides being addictive, the game serves a useful function: helping to index images on the web more accurately.

Acute pain serves a useful function as a protective mechanism that leads to the removal of the source of the pain, whether it be localized injury or infection.