Sentence examples for Dispensable from inspiring English sources

The "to be" (einai) is idiomatically dispensable; dispensing with it, we get oida ton Sôkratên sophon, literally "I know (the) wise Socrates".

Mr Putin's next step could be to dump United Russia, leaving it in the hands of his faithful (and dispensable) lieutenant, Mr Medvedev.

Their advisory businesses, full of potential for conflicts of interest with their auditing side, by now seemed dispensable.

That, along with upheaval in the telecoms industry in recent years, has made internet access over landlines in America annoyingly slow, even in the cities, leaving landlines much more dispensable than they are in Europe.All this would not matter much, were it not for the fact that many businesses depend on landlines.

King Hussein should spend whatever remains of his reign making himself dispensable.

Knowledge-support systems, which improve individual employees' performances by giving them access to the company's collective knowledge, encourage employee loyalty while making any individual dispensable.

If he is right about the technology too, future generations will come to see English as something like calligraphy or Latin: prestigious and traditional, but increasingly dispensable.

For all anyone can tell, Mr Sharon's true aim is to fight on from shorter lines, having earned credit with America by sacrificing Israel's most dispensable settlements, all for the sake of holding tighter to the big ones in the West Bank.

Men often feel that they will be be marked down as less committed to the company than those who do not make use of such benefits, and therefore less promotable and more dispensable.

"I believe that our alliances in Europe and Asia are dispensable".

Makers of cars and luxury goods and other dispensable items will be more exposed to a recession than companies that sell necessities.