Sentence examples for useful thinking from inspiring English sources

Teenagers sometimes ask me if a degree in mathematics is useful, thinking that all you can do is become a teacher or maths professor.

EISF have done some useful thinking on this.

Running in the park gives me useful thinking time - and non-BlackBerry time.

The conflicts that are intrinsic to debate often spur useful thinking, and cause ideas to be articulated that might otherwise remain dormant.

That is why what Edward Said has called "false universals" should be rejected: they stand in the way of useful thinking.

In an interview this week, he said "temperate objections" to Mr. Obama's appearance could stimulate useful thinking about the role of the church in politics and the nature of a Catholic university.

Our reflections on these ideas about persons, together with recent work on what matters about people's experiences of health care delivery (Entwistle et al. 2012a), prompted us to recognize that insights from the capabilities approach might be useful for thinking about the idea of treating patients as persons.

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) general definition of a medical error - 'the failure of a planned action to be completed as intended or the use of a wrong plan to achieve an aim' - is most useful when thinking about harm and potential harm to patients [ 1].

But the model is still useful for thinking about the political world we live in.

I relate this incident because it is very useful in thinking about the task of democratic transition in the Middle East.

It's especially useful for thinking about what the Obama stimulus really involved — and what it didn't.