The market, as Ted Wragg appositely put it in 2005, is a "useful servant".
Nkoloso had been "quite politically active when we were fighting for independence," he said, and "a useful servant to the nation".
Steinem was savvy enough to understand that the thorny gift of brains and beauty had made her attractive to the mass media and an unexpectedly useful servant of the cause.
When science becomes the sole or even primary arbiter of such basic notions as personhood, it ceases to be mankind's most useful servant and threatens, instead, to become its dictator.
Abigail's husband, Samuel Masham, was made a baron, although Anne protested to Harley that she "never had any design to make a great lady of [Abigail], and should lose a useful servant".
Government, Clinton Rossiter once wrote, is something like fire: "Under control, it is the most useful of servants; out of control, it is a ravaging tyrant".
In this way, he would help to supply "efficient" missionaries, "useful" civil servants, and "distinguished" Boden scholars.
How will it prove useful to civil servants and policy making?
This is useful: if civil servants and military men could no longer aspire to bits of enamel and ribbon, they might ask for money, which would be quite awkward for the taxpayer.As for the charge that honours are doled out to donors, this should surely be encouraged.
The think tank said the coalition agreement had proved useful to civil servants by "clarifying the policy compromises and shared values underpinning the coalition".
