Sentence examples for uselessness in from inspiring English sources

I was against a Libyan no-fly zone, having seen its uselessness in Bosnia.

Its program includes exhibitions on conflicting interpretations of uselessness in design and a treasure trail of personal collections of objects and memorabilia exhibited in different places along the route of the city's famous No. 28 yellow tram.

This country was gripped by the penalty shootout against Portugal, Wayne Rooney's dismissal and Cristiano Ronaldo's wink at the bench, Sven-Goran Eriksson's ongoing uselessness in trying to outfox Big Phil Scolari, and that's not even mentioning the football.

Unfortunately, the relative unpopularity of the Wii U makes that scenario unlikely, which is why despite their uselessness in the game itself I hope those Yarn Yoshi Amiibo sell well.

The occasion was a speech that almost wasn't given at all, for an anniversary that was still a month off, delivered by a man who had grown weary of his apparent uselessness in an office that neither interested him nor engaged his capacious gifts.

Other reasons for Scots' unease include the costs – never mind relocation, the cost of replacing Trident will be at least £115bn over the next 30 years – its uselessness in the "war on terror", and its deployment as part of the Nato missile defence system, which involves firing missiles at missiles.

In trying to convey the uselessness inherent in a) articulate, verbal spectrumites invalidating the seriousness endured by the families of significantly-challenged individuals, or b) vice versa; I called this fruitless endeavor, "the competition of suffering," thinking I'd invented a phrase so perfect that the world would be shamed into overnight change.

Uselessness is in the eye of the beholder.

Replaced by machines The second spectre of uselessness lurks in automation.

Given the uselessness of utilities in scoring the EQ-5D, the only point in effecting this type of activity is to obtain rankings or 'league tables' that permit trans-cultural comparison of different health states.

The historian John Ferguson summed it up in 1906, writing, "His works in number, bulk and uselessness are not surpassed in the whole field of learning".