The rainy day before, at the new Frank Gehry-designed Art Gallery of Ontario, for instance, I had spotted, above a large and accommodating stand with many slots for many umbrellas, a printed sign reading "Unsecure Umbrella Station!" A useful convenience with a warning about the limits of useful conveniences: your umbrella could pass in a minute, with only yourself to blame.
East of Third, amid an intermittently charming hodgepodge of high-rises, tenements and prewar apartment buildings familiar to me from childhood were all manner of conveniences useful to a grown-up.
Essentially, the argument described it as imperfect but useful: A statistical convenience that reduced a complex relationship into something approximate, yet could provide guidance about risk and return under certain circumstances.
Which sounds about as useful as Ticketmaster's "convenience fee" is convenient.
Telephone interviews were useful for us as they maximised cost-effectiveness and convenience.
For more than three years of use, author has found this to be a useful device, mainly from convenience, fuel saving, economic and also from ecological point of view.
But they're a really useful supplement — they provide convenience and a sense of control that cable cannot currently match.
As it has become routine, inshallah has also become a kind of convenience, a useful dodge, a bit of theological bobbing-and-weaving to avoid commitment.
The new Android analytics aren't just useful because of the convenience factor of having everything in one dashboard view, they're also helping developers gain access to international data, which has been a big pain point for the platform (among other things).
The base is partly a matter of convention, like using centimetres instead of inches, partly a matter of convenience, since it is useful when dealing with digital devices that use binary codes to represent data.
Our preliminary research has disclosed that this software and application are useful and can provide great convenience and efficiency.
