It is when money is spent that it becomes more than an inert bundle of useless paper.

To me, useless jobs are, well, useless.

Everything in between is virtually useless.

That's it. I'm a useless person and there's no Buddha, no Maitreya, and everything is all hopeless.

In other cases, the definition of a green job is so fuzzy that it becomes virtually useless.

Netanyahu s Useless Demand

It was useless and it caused me a lot of physical and psychological pain.

They will not hear any useless speech in it , or any sin .

They will not hear any useless speech in it , or any sin .

It's useless to argue.

Because they are devoid of understanding , they ridicule your call for prayers saying that it is a useless act .

Because they are devoid of understanding , they ridicule your call for prayers saying that it is a useless act .

The problem is that a US military response is essentially useless under these conditions, and can easily inflame the situation rather than resolve it.

It's useless to try and resist.

It's useless to talk to Tom.

So, although it is common today in Russia to blame Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin for the collapse of the USSR, it is both useless and unfair to do so.

Package inserts in fine print are useless

We indulged and persisted in useless disputes ,

It is widely believed that such a strategy would be useless if the only effect is to allow others to get rich faster by opting out.

Information stored in a phone is thus useless for medical care prior to hospital.

The right s fatalism about the chances of peace is a useless adviser in foreign policy.

who once was useless to you, but now is useful to you and to me.

You useless politicians just keep talking as always.

Do you build useless monuments on every mountain

Do you build useless monuments on every mountain

Our models are, to put it bluntly, useless for predicting currency movements over a few weeks or months.

And it only succeeded in doing so by subsidizing a lot of unnecessary jobs and useless training schemes.

This criterion is subject to an exception where the application of the remedies is unreasonably prolonged or useless.

To me, useless jobs are, well, useless. And, while redundant domain names are not evil, I do think that they are a waste of resources.

The quality of this metadata varies considerably across agencies and, in some cases, is almost useless

They are useless at fighting today's new terrorist enemy.

A final reason for the West to change course is that Western sanctions are proving increasingly useless.

But a wake up call that allows the IAEA s board to go back to sleep is useless.

There is an old saying about monetary policy being useless in recession because the effect of lowering interest rates is like pushing on a string. That happens when confidence and wealth have been destroyed, at which point rate cuts do indeed become useless.

And plunged into useless things with those who were obstinate ,

If major consumer countries and most producer countries do not join the agreement to reduce CO2 emissions, it could be useless.

In this way, it was more efficient than other contemporary devices, such as sundials, which were rendered useless during the dark.

As Ariely points out, general advice is generally useless. Individuals need their own tricks, and each person knows best what will work for them if they think about it.

If central banks save their rate cut bullets for a later day, they may find that their ammunition is useless.

Of course, putting all conclusions in one category does nothing to distinguish between them, and is therefore a useless descriptor.

Americans read this as affirmation of their belief that all intervention was useless.

Today, I came home to find the TV service broken and Facebook useless!

Most studies of parenting on which this advice is based are useless. They're useless because they don't control for heritability. They measure some correlation between what the parents do, how the children turn out and assume a causal relation that the parenting shaped the child.

There is an old saying about monetary policy being useless in recession because the effect of lowering interest rates is like pushing on a string.

Somebody once said that nostalgia is the one utterly most useless human emotion so I think that s a case for serious play.