Any Substantial Use Of Cloning?

Hi, Taka,

I'd go with "Noun 1a." (the act of using; the application or employment of something for a purpose)

Any use of the restrooms is restricted to our customers.

Any use of swearing at students could only be justified by the teacher losing his temper.

Any use of waterboarding detainees could only be justified by national security considerations.

Any use of clearcutting huge areas of the rain forest could only be justified by some very pressing reason, of a kind not now apparent.

- A.

Yes, I thought so too.
But if so, isn't 'use of doing' kind of redundant? Is such redundancy acceptable?

Any substantial use of cloning batches of people could only be justified by some very pressing reason, of a kind not now apparent.
→Cloning batches of people could only be justified by some very pressing reason, of a kind not now apparent.

Any use of swearing at students could only be justified by the teacher losing his temper.
→Swearing at students could only be justified by the teacher losing his temper.

I share you feeling about the redundancy. The use of "use" seems to push the gerund away from it's verb origin, and closer to a pure noun. Likewise, it makes us think of the phrase (swearing at students / cloning batches of people) as a compound noun. That is, we're "using" the whole routine, not just the "doing." Does that make any sense?

I have no idea as to the degree of acceptance this sort of usage enjoys.

OK. Thanks, Avangi!