The NC-17 rating, created in 1990 to replace the stigmatized X, has become all but useless.
Yet Siilasmaa would be the first to admit that his building's security is all but useless in protecting proprietary information.
Mead and Faggin realized that the rat model was neat but useless.
The mast hit the water, where it remained until it finally snapped under the pressure of the boat, rendering it all but useless.
The new design makes these navigation keys all but useless.
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An unnamed narrator recalls how he met the mysterious Jacques Austerlitz in Belgium, where they talk about architecture in particular the hubristic grandiosity of public buildings, and the extravagant but useless defensive fortifications once beloved of European rulers.
The quest to remake teachers' annual performance grades began in 2010, when the state passed a law requiring districts to jettison systems that allowed principals to judge teachers on a simple up-or-down system that critics considered arbitrary and all but useless.
They are no paupers themselves, of course, but they are useless at making money for their shareholders.
The April jobs estimate range survey that between 15, 000 and 215, 000 jobs were created is so wide as to not only be useless but dangerous as well.
But when seemingly useless possessions and even rotten food pile up, blocking exits and filling beds, sofas, sinks and bathtubs, it's evidence of a psychiatric condition called compulsive hoarding.
No, we don't think this Xbox 360 case mod oddity takes the cake, but it ranks fairly high up there in the long list of mods that are impressive from a technical standpoint, but next to useless from a practicality stance.
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But a tool is useless without its handle, the thing your customers can grasp.
It is true that a player with such a speed-based game is vulnerable to a leg injury rendering him nearly useless, but that is true of everyone.
"I've included all sorts of little things - his Vickers machine gun, bombed and rendered useless, but the man, the spirit of the man survives, " said Mr Doubleday.
Equal Pay: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act provides protection against pay discrimination, but the protection is useless if suits must be brought before employees know of the discrimination.
Like most drive wiping devices, the Guard Dog employs massively powerful magnets that not only render hard drives useless, but VHS tapes, DAT tapes, ZIP drives, and any other magnetic media to boot.
The head of the panel said all the large environmental population based studies done in the VSD were en effect useless, but as bad as they were they were an improvement the other two the Denmark studies.
The alternative is for all the high-risk borrowers to turn to credit unions, leaving credit unions with no choice but to jack up interest rates for those with low credit scores, which would compensate them for the risk but render the legislation useless.
If all goes well, and if the test results are verified to the state government's satisfaction by a third-party auditor, which should happen within a few weeks, the plant will begin trucking mountains of used and otherwise useless (but free) cocoa-bean shells to the plant early next year.
But along with obsolete and useless computers are innumerable valuable parts--at least to an expert eye.
Mr Cervi said he tried to reassure his wife over the phone and dialled 999, but said he felt "useless" he could not help more.
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But data dumps like these are useless without data mining tools.
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But others fear the machine is yet another example of a technological advance that gives doctors useless or ambiguous information in the operating room but can provide a treasure trove of evidence in the courtroom.
But then again he has been absolutely useless everytime there has been any wet weather.
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But not handy enough to justify totally useless degrees and tens of thousands of dollars of debt.
But it still could be a virtually useless test if it wrongly labels all sort of healthy people as sick.
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