Sentence examples for useless combinations from inspiring English sources

The 19th-century French mathematician Henri Poincaré summed up this creative role thus: "To create consists precisely in not making useless combinations.

For me, it is a mathematician, Henri Poincaré, who best sums up the problems with these attempts: "To create consists precisely in not making useless combinations.

Sometimes the shape of a nanowire changes the way the catalyst interacts with gases such as methane and this can transform a useless combination of elements into an effective one.

But the council rules by public discussion and consensus, often a useless combination compared with the lure of new tax revenues from office parks and strip malls.

Also disappointment for headline writers up and down the nations who have seen their hilarious Tweddle/medal combinations rendered useless.

We talk about Greenwood and Tindall - well, that combination is useless without them being on the same page as Dawson, Wilkinson and Robinson.

But within those 1.2 seconds is a highly intricate three-part piece of performance art, a combination of quirky skills useless in any other walk of life yet essential to the prosperity of every N.F.L. team.

In other words, analgesia was easily achieved with paracetamol in most of the patients making the combination with continuous wound infiltration useless.

The federal child-care tax credit is not refundable, again rendering it useless for many poor families.Frustratingly, the combination of existing tax incentives and benefits itself creates perverse incentives.

When it comes to assessing the chances of some complicated combination of events, gut feelings are pretty much useless.

They capture animals alive and inject the horn with a combination of drug and dye that render it useless as an ornament.