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How to use the word usefulness in a Sentence?

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I think that trust is extremely important and just for the usefulness of the system, getting rid of troll farms and bots and spammers is incredibly important.

Elon Musk

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Since many countries are planning to order, or have already ordered Sinovac's vaccines, it might undermine people's willingness to take them, because people may question the usefulness of the vaccines, it could be a potential stumbling block.

Yanzhong Huang

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It's obvious that this police board has outserved its usefulness.

Patrick Murray

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This visit highlights China's unique influence and makes it easier for China to showcase its potential contribution in helping move the denuclearization diplomacy forward, if China's mediation can prove helpful, it would also help demonstrate the usefulness of China to the United States as a constructive partner over key regional issues.

Tong Zhao

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The key thing about blockchain technology is that you must have a use case for why you need digital data to be persistent and unchangeable, it makes sense for digital currencies and also health data and insurance data. It makes less sense in industries where the usefulness of data is more temporary.

Catherine Tucker

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Steve Bannon.Christopher Wylie has proven once again that Steve Bannon.Christopher Wylie has a very active imagination without actual knowledge to back it up. As with Steve Bannon.Christopher Wylie claims about the usefulness of the data, Steve Bannon.Christopher Wylie claims here also quickly fall apart under any sensible scrutiny.

Aleksandr Kogan

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness.

Abigail Adams

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

Given that even after years of stonewalling these are only a fraction of the documents that were subpoenaed by the House of Representatives, at this point, the usefulness remains to be seen.

Iowa GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

As a matter of general policy, de-radicalization programs are unproven and their usefulness is doubtful, if the judge reduces the sentence that they would have otherwise imposed in a terrorism case by relying on the hope that de-radicalization will work, that just gives an unearned reward based on an unproven theory to a serious offender.

Andy McCarthy

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Italy has done more than question the usefulness of sanctions. Italy has put down a substantial marker. Europe needs Russia to resolve issues in Syria and elsewhere.

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

But these reports worry people, and I think the process has lost its usefulness if all it's doing is generating worry.

Colin Berry

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The strength and weakness of reason is that it imposes a uniform way of thinking and understanding. Hence its usefulness is immediate to society but not to that extent to the individuals in the same society; again the reason evolves all the time. The very evolution happened at differing geographical isolations made individuals with different levels of mental capacity; the uniform force of reason of society threatens individual minds that are not fully evolved to grasp the reason; such minds are weak and only attained a capacity to create questions without an ability to generate answers; having created the questions they are ready to receive any kind of answers instead of handling the reason. The reason is a day to day struggle for them while the religion has been made available as a readymade answer for any circumstances. Hence at the level of society the reason wins but at the individual level of practice the reason often fails and that makes religion to win.

Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

The usefulness or otherwise of wealth, status and power to a possessor depends only on a single factor: the nature and strength of his reason.

Thiruman Archunan

added by Thiruman Archunan
9 years ago

The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness.

Bruce Lee

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.

Richard Nixon

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Theodore Roosevelt

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.

Charles Simmons

added by anonymous
13 years ago

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Josh Billings

added by anonymous
13 years ago

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner, neither do uninterrupted prosperity and success qualify for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude or the voyager. The martyrs of ancient times, in bracing their minds to outward calamities, acquired a loftiness of purpose and a moral heroism worth a lifetime of softness and security.

Author Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.

Marie Curie, Lecture at Vassar College, May 14, 1921

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Walter Savage Landor

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

Josh Billings

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a "common goal" of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail (1979)

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a 'common goal' of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music.

Lewis Thomas

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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