Sentence examples for useless practice from inspiring English sources

Case in point: the common, often useless practice swing.

It should also develop and enforce guidelines for the prudent use of new and old antibiotics, starting with the elimination of sub-therapeutic levels of antibiotics in livestock feed, and clamp down on the useless practice of prescribing antibiotics for colds.

Thanksgiving Day is also thankfully devoid of the costly and mostly useless practice euphemistically called Gift Giving, which in reality is called Buying Stuff.

It is simply a useless practice to ask a parent, who may be completely new to the facility and the city, if there is anything that they need.

But their ideas, while perhaps attractive to voters, as well as to special-interest constituents, are probably useless in practice.

Not according to Andrew Smithers, the consultant, who has just produced a (privately-circulated) report called "The Equity Risk Premium: Useless in Practice and a Source of Confusion and Error".

I would think the reason for taking a specialized reference course would be the hope or expectation of having a good understanding of the field, rather than a cursory glance that would be useless in practice, and in my opinion this knowledge (at least at a basic level) is necessary.

Bottom line: good in theory, useless in practice.

The low-priority links that can be accepted by conservative yielding may still be subject to Rx yielding, which makes conservative yielding useless in practice.

The 110-pounders blew up when other ships used them in action, were labour-intensive to load and fire, and were henceforth only used with a reduced propellant charge, which left them useless in practice.

New bike and bus lanes are great in theory, but they're useless in practice when ride-share drivers, police, delivery drivers and construction workers use them as parking lots.