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.

The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.

These differences in turn result from the fact that my Yokuts vocabularies were built up of terms selected mainly to insure unambiguity of English meaning between illiterate informants and myself, within a compact and uniform territorial area, but that Hoijer's vocabulary is based on Swadesh's second glottochronological list which aims at eliminating all items which might be culturally or geographically determined.

It is probably more effective than the expanded scholarship programs of the past decade, because the scholarship programs mainly aided the students with the best academic records ( who were usually middle-class ), and these students tended to use the scholarship funds to go to more expensive colleges.

The need that we not give unqualified approval to any but a limited use of economic pressure directed against the actual doers of injustice is clear also in light of the fact that White Citizens' Councils seem resolved to maintain segregation mainly by the use of these same means and not ordinarily by physical violence.

The United States, State Department officials explain, now is mainly interested in setting up an international inspection system which will prevent Laos from being used as a base for Communist attacks on neighboring Thailand and South Viet Nam.

When thus deposited, Keys says that cholesterol is mainly responsible for the arterial blockages that culminate in heart attacks.

Or you could hope the parachute wouldn't open just so you could say you saw it not open, not because you meant any harm to Starkey Poe in his suit of red underwear, but mainly because you were tired of being an old maid -- a thing which cannot admit when it thinks it might be pregnant, but must stand the dizzy feeling all alone and go on like everything is all right instead of being able to say to somebody in a normal voice: `` I think I'm pregnant ''.

This is mainly due to the immigration wave of the 1990s.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

It is the study of culture, and is based mainly on ethnography.

In aquatic amphibians, the liver plays only a small role in processing nitrogen for excretion, and ammonia is diffused mainly through the skin.

Amateur astronomy, also called backyard astronomy and stargazing, is a hobby whose participants enjoy watching the sky, and the plethora of objects found in it, mainly with portable telescopes and binoculars.

The physical oceanography of the Aegean Sea is controlled mainly by the regional climate, the fresh water discharge from major rivers draining southeastern Europe, and the seasonal variations in the Black Sea surface water outflow through the Dardanelles Strait.

Flat or gently sloping land is rare and largely confined to the deltas of the Kızıl River, the coastal plains of Çukurova and the valley floors of the Gediz River and the Büyük Menderes River as well as some interior high plains in Anatolia, mainly around Tuz Gölü ( Salt Lake ) and the Konya Basin ( Konya Ovasi ).

A lustrous gray metalloid, it is found in nature mainly as the sulfide mineral stibnite ( Sb < sub > 2 </ sub > S < sub > 3 </ sub >).

It is a clear liquid resembling ethanol in smell and properties, with a slightly lower boiling point ( 64. 7 ° C ), and is used mainly as a solvent, fuel, and raw material.

This is mainly to do with the breaking up of a topic to make it easier to understand.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

Tottsuru is mainly enjoyed with sake.

Amber is globally distributed, mainly in rocks of Cretaceous age or younger.

This class is mainly based on enantio-labdatrienonic acids, such as ozic and zanzibaric acids.

This class is something of a wastebasket ; its ambers are not polymerized, but mainly consist of cedrane-based sesquiterpenoids.

The general ground-plan is a parallelogram, with irregular outlines, one side overlooking the Tweed ; and the style is mainly the Scottish Baronial.