"It's the luck of the draw whether there is one or there isn't," Mr. Williams said of a useful deed restriction.
The burning of the archheretic would be an even more useful deed if he could be made to renounce his errors in public, and so a number of ways were tried to break him down.
Here was a useful reminder – along with the deeds of Usain Bolt, Hashim Amla, Gabrielle Douglas, Alex Zanardi, David Rudisha, Anna Meares and others – that not everything good about the year came wrapped in a union flag.
When you're young and invincible, with a head full of vague plans for as-yet-unperformed great deeds, it is a useful lesson to learn that quietness does not equate with insignificance.
In this sense, history is not primarily regarded as the memory of great deeds or the source of useful examples, but as a process of development.
Lenin, who enjoyed having intellectual rationalizers for his various deeds, had a term for folks like Ron Paul: "Useful idiots".
It's useful, however, to have been involved in some struggle, done mighty deeds, or have enacted them on stage or screen.
Bold, violent deeds draw the lines and arouse ancient resentments, and are useful even if they have unsought consequences.
As such, it is most useful to companies with a visible interface and direct interaction with consumers, and where the good deeds of the firm are easily observable.
That makes him very useful to Mika (Naomie Harris), an Interpol-style cop who suspects world governments of hiring ninjas to do their dirtiest deeds.
