Sentence examples for useless step from inspiring English sources

They also called it a useless step that would achieve little.

In case you don't remember, Frank Gilbreth was the time-and-motion man who went into factories in the early 20th century and eliminated all kinds of useless steps.

Thus a 45-minute operation was reduced to a mere 30.Frederick's central idea, that "stove, sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely", directly informs modern kitchen design, based on the "work triangle" between fridge, cooker and sink.

Good communication will ensure that you can skip the first four useless steps of beating around the bush.

Then, in step the useless ones, wasting time.

Lymphocyte development involves selection steps when useless or harmful clones are deleted by programmed cell death.

But resistance was always one step behind, rendering useless the miracle drugs that once stopped bacteria in their tracks.

Unfortunately the target was facing the opposite direction at the time so this step was completely useless.

Talk your way out of it if step one proves useless.

But their macabre case turns uglier once the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ("the most useless agency on the planet") steps in and tries to pass the victim off as an anonymous American tourist.

It will bring up interference in the afterward steps because of useless signal collection.