Sentence examples similar to ancillary to something from inspiring English sources

"Three New Worlds in the Mideast" (editorial, Aug. 14) suggests that "it makes little difference in practical terms" whether "President Bush's orders to U.S. forces to halt shipments of Iraqi oil be termed a blockade, a quarantine, an interdiction or a barricade". This dismisses the rule of law as something ancillary to practical policy, made to be broken in the crunch.

At first, 20-somethings from programs like that were ancillary to the PieLab effort.

Security is not ancillary to any deal.

This section is ancillary to section 256.

It was a surprisingly potent image — something you rarely see in Afghanistan, where the U.S. deliberately fights the stigma of an occupying force by framing its activities as strictly ancillary to the national government.

But they were usually ancillary to the job and dropped at some point.

Still, Mr. Powell sometimes seems to resent suggestions that he is ancillary to the peace effort.

To ponder the social niceties ancillary to your misconduct is quibbling.

Finally, someone whose stated purpose was (at least ancillary to) waging war.

Stationery is associated with dull-witted anal retentiveness, being ancillary to more important tasks.

What artists believe, however, is of secondary importance, ancillary to the work itself.