If you've ever been stuck in one of the city's frequent, torrential downpours, the usefulness becomes more obvious — especially in trying to issue a speeding ticket, for example, or check a suspect's criminal history while exposed to the elements.
When you consider the method being utilized to create structures on say, the moon, then the usefulness becomes apparent.
However, their usefulness becomes questionable when age-sex structure and fertility data utilised are defective and incomplete, of which the study found otherwise.
Since its simplicity and usefulness, it became a very popular tool in solving many problems in mathematical analysis.
People may simply have bad ideas, or else items that once were useful might outlive their usefulness, or become garbled in transmission.
"Their goal is plausible," he said, but their usefulness will become clearer as the funds "build a track record and people get a feel for how to use them".
Némirovsky noted that "Corte is one of those writers whose usefulness will become glaringly obvious in the years following the defeat; he has no equal when it comes to finding euphemisms to guard against disagreeable realities".
Like an outmoded piece of technology, a past value which was once constructed to address a problem in one set of circumstances can outlive its usefulness, and become a hindrance to the capacity of those in the present to deal with their practical needs and worries.
