Examples of using Were useless in English and their translations into Russian
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You were useless in there!
Expostulations were useless.
Weapons were useless against them.
Everyone said they were useless.
Their arrows were useless and could not touch us.
All our defensive weapons were useless.
All the files were useless or sealed by a court order.
Those lions you bought me were useless.
They were useless, the triumph of advertising over good medical sense!
Energy weapons were useless.
And sometimes my fists were useless, I had to take my knives, because you're weaker than a knife.
In the morning,I woke up and my legs were useless.
Unilateral measures were useless and served only to make the problem worse.
Partial easings of restrictions on access and movement were useless.
With them, words were useless and that suited me, not being one to open my mouth even at home.
We understood from resolute faces of drivers,that any further tenders were useless.
Even if the best people were available, they were useless if there was no will to assign them.
You want to say that all those things for which I have spent the money were useless?
While domestic remedies were useless and ineffective in the first place they had simply become unavailable.
I have been polite to the friends i have called, all of whom were useless.
They were useless in addressing poverty, health care, climate change, terrorism or transnational crime.
The look on Frodo's face was enough for him he knew that words of his were useless.
Increase buoyancy steam and iron were useless in the face of nature's onslaught for 14 hours we ran before the wind far from the trade route.
The Texians also deposited their cache of captured ammunition and muskets in the river; in their opinion,the supplies were useless.
Consequently they flared up in rage, andrefused to imagine that all of these precious treasures were useless, and that Gentiles could receive all these graces through faith alone, without any effort given toward keeping the law.
I realized that my life needed to reflect the transformational power of Jesus, or else my logic andwisdom and answers were useless.
Distraught at the fact that his superpowers were useless at the one time he actually needed them, he flew straight into the anti-matter cloud that was destroying Earth-Three, grimly informing Power Ring,"I do what I have done all my life.
Even if any time in the future would be shown,that some of my efforts were useless, at least Iadvised to mankind.
On reaching Zanzibar he learned that his efforts were useless, as on 1 July 1890 the Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty between Germany and the UK had been signed, whereby Uganda was left as an area of British influence and Peters' agreement with Mwanga became null and void.
It supported speedy approval and implementation of the remaining reform proposals, buteven the best blueprints were useless without the money to implement them.