For Apple, France is a dispensable nation.
In a society where economics and hunger drive most decisions, the girl child becomes a dispensable commodity.
Physical activity should be a core educational concern, not a dispensable option.
High culture, especially, is all too frequently viewed as a dispensable frivolity by far too many politicians.
"If you turned your home into an A.T.M. by taking out a home equity loan, then you took a shelter and made it into a dispensable asset," Ms. Ruch said.
The training and guidance of leaders is key during down times, when motivation by methods other than money is needed, yet coaching is often seen as a dispensable luxury when the markets turn sour.
Her indomitable dedication to providing schoolchildren with more healthful-eating options earned Waters a fair share of detractors, who argued that seasonal food was a dispensable luxury for already underfunded schools.
They think the euro is a dispensable experiment, a technical construct or a hedgie's plaything, when it is the solemn gage of German commitment to a united Europe — a project that, like most great undertakings, comes at a price.
Between 1899 and 1993 there were 1900 managerial changes in England, and going even further back it was one of the basic functions of the early secretary-manager to be sacked: he came into being as a dispensable frontman, a visible sacrifice to football's new and slightly alarming mass audience in times of failure.
The inference to generality is a dispensable middle step.
The dilution controlled by a combined parameter as VF−1/2 and laser power was a dispensable factor.
