Translation of "Etwas sinnvolles machen" in English

Have you ever considered trying to do something useful?

I finally have a chance to do something useful.

I'd support you if you did something that made sense.

I wanted to do something worthwhile, something that is really important.

Your logical mind wants to make sense of what I say.

By supporting the activity here, one can do something very meaningful.

I was to resign my commission in the Navy and do something useful, the stock market.

I want to find some useful kind of work.

And if you are bored, then what is wrong with doing something useful?

I believe, Mr President, that if we were to do anything useful and long-standing - and I would like the opinion of the Commissioner on this - then that would have to be the setting up of that wonderful organisation we have been talking about - the one for the study of earthquakes, etc - which, in turn, would have to have a main code of ethics as regards its constitution and when, where, how and to whom information on earthquakes should be publicised.

Obviously, while working in this fragmented and piecemeal way, we are already dealing with an extremely difficult framework, and Parliament has tried to make sense of this.

Yet when we do something really sensible, like imposing standard rules for traffic restrictions, he questions whether the Community is competent to do so.

So the companies that are developing these technologies are actually interested in taking the CO2 and making something useful out of it, a marketable product.

They're just a part of a program to get kids out of their neighborhood, you know, gang area, get them out here doing something useful, train them to be hotshots, show them a different path.

They're not talking about the people who work there and that try to do something worthwhile.

Not only have I found something that gives my life meaning and purpose, but I finally have the perfect use for these.

Only if women are present among the delegates and staff of the social partner organizations in proportion to their presence in the constituencies they represent, and only if there is provision for women's particular concerns to be adequately voiced, can women play a full part in this new international forum and lend their efforts to making something meaningful of it.

When you are from Carlsbad, New Mexico, a town of 25.000, there not really anything you can do besides go hunting, dig a hole somewhere in the wilderness and lie in it, or you can do something useful: Brachial modern metal!

If the EU was really interested in doing reasonable developing efforts, the EU should stop to overstock the markets of the developing countries with cheap goods.

It often help to talk to others in order to make the factual knowledge to something useful – a methodological approach to this is the Knowledge Cafe.

If you've given up hope of doing something "useful" with it, do something destructive with it.

But what common thread with all the loss I have seen is to continue to make something positive and meaningful out of the person's life.

According to her, the most effective ways of making the most out of it are: put it on containers for the needy, donate it or give it to a friend or relative that may want it, or remake it or use the fabric to make new things as bags or tableclothes.

Why don't you do something useful and turn on the lights, 'cause we can't see shit down there.