ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD UTILITY
From Old French utelite, from Latin ūtilitās usefulness, from ūtī to use.
10 QUOTES WITH «UTILITY»
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utility.
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is never based, as associations for utility or pleasure are, on a fair exchange.
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour so to rule our lives that we may serve and bless mankind.
All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.
History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Ah, the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills, parenting, cooking elaborate meals, purchasing a grown-up bed, jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?
I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.
The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.
What Google did in Web 1.0 was take a feature, which was search, and built an entire business around that utility. In Web 2.0, Twitter took a feature, which is sharing, and built a utility that allowed people to do that on a massive scale.
The script is a blueprint for the film - there are very few bad scripts that make good movies. If you really like the character and understand the utility it serves within the movie, that's a part of my process.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UTILITY»
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utility in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
utility and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Eight of the eleven essays were written expressly for this book; all of the authors are deeply engaged in the debate over utility and rights, and their essays build upon and extend current thinking on the subject.
Raymond Gillespie Frey, 1984
2
Mathematics: Its Power and
Utility
The first half of the book explores the POWER and historic impact of mathematics and helps students harness that POWER by developing an effective approach to problem solving.
3
A Guide to
Utility Automation: AMR, SCADA, and IT Systems
This publication tells you how electricity is distributed, measured, and billed in order to prepare utilities for the selection and implementation of new solutions needed in an increasingly competitive market.
4
Handbook of
Utility Theory: Volume 2: Extensions
1 Introduction In the last twenty-five years, an enormous amount of work has
been done to develop new decision theories which can accommodate patterns of
choice that contravene expected utility theory. This chapter surveys some of the ...
Salvador Barbera, Peter Hammond, Christian Seidl, 2004
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Handbook
Utility Management
In the context of these developments the Handbook Utility Management reflects current challenges in the utility industries and provides solutions from a managerial perspective.
Andreas Bausch, Burkhard Schwenker, 2009
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Business Essentials for
Utility Engineers
This book covers all business concepts important to utility engineers, including regulation, ratemaking, accounting, finance, risk management, economics, budgeting, and asset management.
7
Forensic Entomology: The
Utility of Arthropods in Legal ...
The first edition of Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations broke ground on all levels, from the caliber of information provided to the inclusion of copious color photographs.
Jason H. Byrd, James L. Castner, 2009
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Utility Reassessed: The Role of Ethics in the Practice of Design
Reassessing the concept of utility, this thought-provoking collection explores the philosophy behind utility, and offer a discussion of rational, or ethical, design theory.
9
Nature The
Utility Of Religion And Theism
1874. John Stuart Mill is one of the foremost representatives of utilitarian thought as well as one of the most influential of nineteenth century liberals.
10
Self-
Utility: A Theory of Everything
In the Creeks of Fire is the inside story of a people as they try to emancipate themselves from a terribly broken down Nigerian system.
Od Michel Listenberger, 2009
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UTILITY»
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utility is used in the context of the following news items.
Utility drones could inspect equipment, scan for outages
Researchers and industry executives predict the drones could provide security surveillance to deter vandalism on remote gear and make it safer for utility ... «U.S. News & World Report, Jul 15»
Threatened salmon die after utility PG&E temporarily shuts canal
PG&E, the state's largest utility, restored the water flow on Wednesday to a remote stretch of Butte Creek, home to the largest of three surviving wild populations ... «89.3 KPCC, Jun 15»
Large fire at utility yard burning pile of power poles in Fresno
The sight of billowing smoke -- and massive flames -- is what many woke up to in Northwest Fresno Thursday. An estimated $3 million in utility poles burst into ... «ABC30.com, Apr 15»
No leaks found in gas line before explosion, California utility says
The California Public Utilities Commission and federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration are leading the investigation into the explosion, ... «UPI.com, Apr 15»
Utility to pay $1.6B after deadly California pipeline rupture
(CNN) The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday said it is ordering Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to pay a record $1.6 billion penalty for unsafe ... «CNN, Apr 15»
Maryland family of 8 died after utility cut off stolen electric meter
Onlookers gathered near the house where seven children and one adult died in Princess Anne, Maryland. An illegal meter was shut off after a utility company ... «Washington Times, Apr 15»
Utility regulators open probe into IPL explosions
As Indianapolis prepares to host the Final Four NCAA basketball tournament in two weeks, a flurry of underground explosions and flying manhole covers ... «Indianapolis Star, Mar 15»
SolarCity Sues Arizona Utility For Antitrust Violations
On Monday, the San Mateo, CA CA-based distributed solar company filed a lawsuit in federal court in Arizona alleging that the Salt River Project (SRP), a utility ... «Forbes, Mar 15»
Spanish company buying US utility serving northeast for $3B
MADRID (AP) — Spain's leading electricity and natural gas company, Iberdrola, will buy the northeastern U.S. utility UIL Holdings Corp. in a deal valued at about ... «Yahoo News, Feb 15»
PG&E email scandal: Top executive at California utility regulator to …
Paul Clanon, the California Public Utilities Commission's executive director, will step down "in the near future," after 30 years with the recently troubled agency, ... «San Francisco Business Times, Dec 14»
