Sentence examples for useful up from inspiring English sources

Thousands of objects have been exhumed from storage (it's about time) and animated by new touch-screen computers (useful up to a point) and by air and sun.

The metaphor is useful up to a point, but ultimately misleading.

This is useful, up to a point: Mr. Turner is the leading proponent of a tenor saxophone style traceable to Marsh, with a translucent sound, an almost feathery cadence and a brilliantly discursive take on harmony.

Quantitative economic measurement is useful up to a certain point, but the value of human life, of freedom from sickness and pain, of safety on the streets, of clean air, and of opportunity for achievement are hardly measurable in monetary terms.

Normally, Polybius lays great emphasis on causality, and his distinction (III, 6) between the causes of an event (aitiai) and its immediate origins (archai) is useful up to a point, though it is more mechanical than that of the great Greek historian Thucydides and allows nothing for the dialectical character of real historical situations.

(I read widely and can't pinpoint one particular star resource but I will put a list of resources that I found useful up on www.scienceneeds.com for anyone who is interested).

However, beyond these high-class applications, most FSP has not become successful, never attracting external users and contributors to generate a network of peers producing useful, up-to-date public software freely available [12 14].

This is useful for using up juice when you have used the peel for something else.

Q Are auctions useful in "up" markets?

They are sweeping, swooping, graceful, sturdy, useful and up there in the air.

"I will stay in my constituency, make myself useful, pick up dog shit and stay away from Westminster.