Sentence examples for useless in preventing from inspiring English sources

New laws and regulations adopted in the aftermath of scandal are almost always useless in preventing future wrongdoing, especially in financial matters.

"I started doing research about car alarms and discovered that they were totally useless in preventing car theft," he said recently.

Unlike with murder alone, where prior assaults are a strong indicator of future homicides, in many murder-suicide cases, no one is ever arrested or even suspected of domestic violence until it's too late, making much of what we know about how to help domestic violence victims virtually useless in preventing murder-suicides.

98 This can be attributed to the multicomponent and heterogeneous immunologic response between patients that renders single component therapies useless in preventing disease onset.

Cotton is notorious for soaking up water, making the clothing useless in preventing hypothermia.

Afterwards, a Cochrane review, on seven studies [ 67], and a recent meta-analysis [ 68], on eight randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial, confirmed that probiotics are useless in maintaining remission and preventing recurrence in CD.

To make insulin powder that could be safely rehydrated, they had to find ingredients to surround the molecule to prevent it from turning useless in its dry state what Lechuga-Ballesteros calls "the dough that surrounds the insulin raisins".

Arms that are useless in the defense of Catholics should not be allowed to prevent a peaceful settlement.

Because the government has proven largely useless in stopping the pandemic of cybercrime and cyber-espionage, companies have been forced to rely increasingly on data encryption to prevent its theft by the Chinese government and foreign criminal gangs.

Hydrocortisone cream can separate and become useless in the heat.

That plan was essentially useless in the BP accident.