"useless" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It would also help the City (90% of which's activity is socially useless, say the FSA) to become socially useful by contributing some tax revenue from this crazy turbo-gambling.
- She's not a fan of day care and says people who postpone marriage are socially useless "freaks of culture," but in the end she's not all that far from the mean.
- Mr. Gorbachev said the recent "panic" on Wall Street was a "grave warning" against "the senseless and socially useless squandering of resources" on defense.
- Progressive thinker Adair Turner of the FSA has urged reform, castigating as "socially useless" many of the financial instruments that have distracted financiers from their core task.
- On the other hand, I get a little queasy when I hear the phrase "socially useless" activity.
- I think that some of it is socially useless activity.
- Or to someone following some highly profitable and amusing, but socially useless or socially mischievous occupation.
- Heavily regulate any socially useless investments.
- Spiritually motivated self-sacrifice must be freely and unreservedly undertaken; otherwise, it becomes a token of conventional pietism - religiously counterproductive and socially useless.
- This mish-mash is just yet another socially useless instrument along the same lines as the ineffective 'Lisbon Strategy' for European economic growth.
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