Sentence examples for useless at best from inspiring English sources

When a patient wanted an antibiotic for a cold (a treatment useless at best, dangerous at worst), she cheerfully handed it over.

In return, Mr. Chalabi provided intelligence on weapons that one senior American intelligence official described earlier this week as "useless at best, and misleading at worst".

In a recent lecture, Paul Krugman, winner of the Nobel prize in economics in 2008, argued that much of the past 30 years of macroeconomics was "spectacularly useless at best, and positively harmful at worst".

Most work in macroeconomics in the past 30 years has been useless at best and harmful at worst, said Mr Krugman.As for the economy, the road back to health will be long and painful.

The second grand fallacy — that video games are useless, at best, and dangerous, at worst — receives a calm rebuttal from James Paul Gee, a professor of reading at University of Wisconsin-Madison.

In the last of his Lionel Robbins lectures at the LSE on June 10th, Mr Krugman feared that most macroeconomics of the past 30 years was "spectacularly useless at best, and positively harmful at worst".These internal critics argue that economists missed the origins of the crisis; failed to appreciate its worst symptoms; and cannot now agree about the cure.

Instead, he told the court, the defendants made a series of "banal and self-contradictory" statements during their 2009 meeting, many of which were "at best scientifically useless" or, worse, "misleading".

Acquired bacterial resistance has caused several antibiotics to become useless or, at best, compromised in their ability to counteract bacterial infection [ 1].

However, for Dalkey, knowledge is more reliable than opinion [ 7] and this is why, in the presence of available data, Delphi is a useless technique: at best, results are consistent with empirical results; if results differ, then empirical estimations are a priori better.

3. Pinhole cameras A safe option, but they are pretty useless at the best of times and will be no use at all during totality.

But the targeting categories the company serves via this feature are so broad and lacking in comprehensiveness as to be selectively uninformative and thus pretty useless at very best.