Lending a hand

Usage examples of helpful.

Given his blue-blood heritage, the kid had expected to advance his military career with a few helpful nudges and memos directed to the appropriate commanding officers.

Miss Morville, accepting the civility with equanimity, pointed out to him, in a helpful spirit, that Abney was still waiting to relieve him of his driving-coat.

Stimpson, it was thought that a proven warehouseman would be more helpful than a third alieni st Even with the most rigorous schedule and the briefest of consultations, it was clear to Thomas that he would not be able to follow the course of six hundred illnesses, let alone devote to them the long-term observation they required.

Menelaus and Helen or Perseus and Andromeda, that I found appropriate to my purposes, a brief summary might be helpful.

NATO member and the Turks had been helpful on Afghanistan: Ankara approved within an hour the American request to fly over Turkish territory and had agreed to lead the small peacekeeping contingent in Kabul.

With a helpful hand from Giles, who shouldered Royce aside and apologized for their belated assistance, Arden got to her feet.

Martin Gutzeit, the Berliner Landesbeauftragte fur die Stasi Unterlagen, was helpful, as were staff at the Antistalinistische Action Berlin-Normannenstrabe e.

The Washington planners are trying to be helpful in this, and there are new programs for the centralized organization of science all over the place, especially in the biomedical field.

Australia, Lewis Wainright, Thomas Reid and Kevin Westbrook were helpful, and Bill Wood in Canberra provided living quarters.

The reason for this is simple: Many people are trying to watch their calories as well as their carbs, and calling their attention to those dishes in this book that are particularly low in calories seemed helpful.

I anticipated, were most helpful, speaking freely before, and to, one whom they thought destined to the chains of a slave.

They were in a very damaged condition, but among them he raked out a few Spanish volumes, and determined forthwith to set to work to master the language of Cer-vantes, as no one on board understood it, and it would be helpful in their search along the Chilian coast.

Stanford Paglia, the Sports Aloft corespondent, with helpful tips by Pike Resnick.

In such instances green crops that can be grown on such lands, as rye, for instance, plowed under when the ear begins to shoot, will be found helpful.

Lebanon, a little bit southeast of here, had been the source of particularly violent opposition, while the people of Dayton, at that time the same size as Lebanon, had been kind and helpful.