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useful and metaphor
The metaphor has been useful in helping a new generation of thought leaders to reason through new military strategies around the world, led largely by the US Department of Defense ( DoD ).
The futurist and cold war strategist Herman Kahn ( 1922 – 1982 ) believed that although MAD was useful as a metaphor, when pushed to its logical conclusion it became absurd.
The recognition of city rhythms is a useful metaphor, helping to understand modern city life.
Although it is useful, some authors take pupillary poetry too far, and, " drunk on metaphor ", they produce " bad science "; i. e. postulate faulty theories.
The simplification provided by a good abstraction layer allows for easy reuse by distilling a useful concept or metaphor so that situations where it may be accurately applied can be quickly recognized.
It begins with an analysis of the theory of metaphor and its relationship with the concepts of Freudian Unconscious and Marxian concept of ideology. It is argued that in their classical form Dhvani and Rasa are not useful in reading modern texts. Rasa is rejected as such, and the Dhvani theory is given a more prosaic interpretation along the lines suggested by Mukulabhatta.
Similes are only occasionally useful in speech since they are poetic and how similar there actually are to a metaphor.
An example of an engineered meme is Godwin's Law, a meme which propagates on mail-lists, and which its author professes to have initiated to reduce spam on those lists ; one version is " When someone posts a metaphor about Nazis the thread is no longer useful.
The initial techniques are simply a learning metaphor useful for teaching more important concepts, such as dominating an opponent with superior body position during ground grappling or how to control someone during clinch fighting.
Wayne Goodman, Chair of the US Food and Drug Administration Psychopharmacological Advisory Committee, has described the serotonergic theory of depression as a " useful metaphor " for understanding depression, though not one that he uses with his own psychiatric patients.
For example, it has been useful in some aspects of language training in developmentally disabled children, but it has not led to a robust research program in the range of areas relevant to language and cognition, such as problem-solving, reasoning, metaphor, logic, and so on.

useful and is
Or is it relevant because it teaches us something useful to know about ourselves??
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
RCA Victor has an ambitious and useful project in a stereo series called `` Adventures In Music '', which is an instructional record library for elementary schools.
The adjustable fly cutter is very useful for cutting large diameter holes and can be used to cut exact-size discs by reversing the cutter blade.
This is true because of savings in utility lines and the fact that your buildings have a useful radius equal in all directions.
Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.
The latter is useful for modifying information about some or all forms of a word, hence reducing the work required to improve dictionary contents.
It is of course useful to have a sovereign cause on one's social criticism, for it makes diagnosis and prescription much easier than they might otherwise be.
In Coriolanus the agnomen of Marcius is used deliberately and pointedly, but the Homeric epithets and the Anglo-Saxon kennings are used casually and recall to the hearer `` a familiar story or situation or a useful or pleasant quality of the referent ''.
He knew instinctively that next to voice and face an actor's hands are his most useful possession -- that in fiction as in the theatre, gesture is an indispensable shorthand for individualizing character and dramatizing action and response.
A concurrent effort is needed to make oceanographic data useful on the spot.
The aim is to collect a very broad range of physical, chemical, morphological, and structural data for crystals on an encyclopedic scale and to seek all possible useful and revealing correlations of properties with internal structure.
A useful by-product of this system is that the information necessary to set the gyro drift biases is available from the currents necessary to hold the system in level.
In spite of the shading of one type of course into another, I believe it is useful to talk about vocational courses as apart from academic courses.
In practice, a bidirectional reflectance distribution function ( BRDF ) may be required to characterize the scattering properties of a surface accurately, although the albedo is a very useful first approximation.
ANOVA " is probably the most useful technique in the field of
Regression is often useful.
A new computer program is used to create the most comfortable and useful prosthetics.
While the Arrhenius concept is useful for describing many reactions, it is also quite limited in its scope.
" Good ", for example, can mean " useful " or " functional " ( That's a good hammer ), " exemplary " ( She's a good student ), " pleasing " ( This is good soup ), " moral ( a good person versus the lesson to be learned from a story ), " righteous ", etc.
Straw is useful in binding the brick together and allowing the brick to dry evenly.
Astronomy is sometimes promoted as one of the few remaining sciences for which amateurs can still contribute useful data.

useful and deck
Knowledge of a burn card might be marginally useful, such as knowing there is one less Ace in the deck, but far less so than having it in play.
This rule is useful for low-stakes social games where many players will stay for the draw, and will help avoid depletion of the deck.
They are also useful for computing on boats or other unstable platforms where a rolling deck could produce undesirable input.
The DPICM round is effective against armored vehicles, even tanks ( since the deck armor is usually the thinnest on the vehicle ), and is also extremely useful against entrenched infantry in positions with overhead cover.
While the astrolabe could be useful for determining latitude on land, it was an awkward instrument for use on the heaving deck of a ship or in wind.
It is useful for a dinghy carried this way to have handholds built into the bottom, making launching easier and providing handholds on deck.
Second dealing is only useful when the cheat knows the value of the top card of the deck.
However, the length of the deck would then be a better candidate, because the wheelbase affects characteristics useful in different speeds or terrains regardless of the height of the skateboarder.
The semi-submersible design is very useful for hyperbaric tie-ins because the significant deck space allowed the transportation and manipulation of a 75 tonne welding habitat and pipe manipulation equipment that have the capability of maneuvering 36-inch-diameter, 1. 5-inch-thick steel pipe.
Toyota made the new Tundra useful for many construction workers, by including extra large door handles, deck rail system, integrated tow hitch, and head restraints that can fit a worker with a hardhat.
For this rotation to serve a useful purpose, namely facilitating boat traffic underneath, its deck must follow a curved shape.
As a result, this method is uniquely useful in poker-style games, in which the number of cards dealt is very small compared to the size of the whole deck.
When combined with library shuffling effects, it could quickly pull the best and most useful cards out of a deck.
These may have been dislodged by the casualty falling into the water, or may have been thrown later by people on deck trying to help, but once around the propeller, they can put the engine out of use, just when it could have been most useful.

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