Basic research is very useful, but it should be more geared toward application than it was before.
A risk-insensitive leverage ratio can be a useful backstop to risk-based capital requirements. But such a ratio can have perverse incentives if it is the binding capital requirement because it treats relatively safe activities, such as central clearing, as equivalent to the most risky activities.
In many cases, the line between a thriller and a crime novel has become too blurred to be useful.
To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
I don't crave fame. I mean, it's nice to be recognized. It is useful.
Dams have harmed our wildlife and made rivers less useful for recreation.
A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.
Britain's most useful role is somewhere between bee and dinosaur.
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
Every hour of useful work is precious.
This above all makes history useful and desirable; it unfolds before our eyes a glorious record of exemplary actions.
The most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
Trump is what the Russians call a useful idiot, someone in service to the Russian Federation, either unwitting or wittingly.
Medicine is a supremely useful profession. Fiction writing is not.
Hemp is a part of the cannabis plant, and it is very useful.
I find humming is very useful.
In becoming an icon, it is useful to die young.
Genre is a useful thing when organizing texts in a bookshop but immaterial to the particular exchange between writer and reader.
