Sentence examples for useful in the short from inspiring English sources

The advertising is also useful in the short term.

The NHS Confederation said the extra cash would be "useful in the short term" but called for a longer term solution to tackle the challenges facing emergency care.

To the Editor: I was disappointed by Hugh Raffles's assertion that if invasive species are pretty or useful in the short term, we ought to let them be.

Avoiding the risks and unsustainable choices that might be useful in the short time, but not for the medium or long term.

"This kind of nudge-nudge, wink-wink xenophobic racist campaign may be politically savvy or useful in the short term but it causes long-term damage to communities," she told the BBC.

Unicoloniality may be useful in the short term, as it is for Argentine ants and some other invasive ants, he said, but in the long run it appears to be an evolutionary dead end because social behavior could not evolve.

Many of the strategies used in pregnancy appeared useful in the short-term but did not reduce their anxiety in the long-term and were sometimes counter-productive.

Even Band Aids can be useful in the short-term.

Corticosteroid injection – this may be useful in the short-term, but must be combined with other treatments as above.

The measurement of plasma glycated albumin is particularly useful in the short-middle term monitoring of glycometabolic control in diabetics.

Few argue that unfunded MFA programs, which put their graduates into crippling debt for a largely-unmarketable art-school degree, are useful in the short-term, just as few credibly argue that fully-funded MFA programs are exploitative in the long-term.