People were disposed of because they were no longer profitable.
Jews looked different now, because they were no longer ashamed of being Jews.
The predators faded from the scene, because they were no longer needed; corporate America embraced its inner Gekko.
And because they were no longer infallible, and because the Beatles no longer defined the zeitgeist, the best of their solo work has been unfairly dismissed.
After the collapse of the centrally planned economies of eastern and central Europe, the use of manufactured fertilisers declined because they were no longer affordable.
After the mechanization of agriculture, even more horses were released into the wild because they were no longer needed to pull plows and the like.
The court found that European data protection laws entitled a Spanish complainant, Mario Costeja González, to require Google to erase links to stories about his debt problems in the 1990s because they were no longer relevant.
Remember how in the 1976 sci-fi film Logan's Run, Michael York and Jenny Agutter ran to escape the terminating Sandmen because they were no longer 29 but illegally 30?
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today that a small number of the nearly 600 prisoners being held in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, would be released to their home countries because they were no longer of interest to the United States.
And in three recent cases, Mr. Weinstein said, owners sold their apartments in short sales — selling for less than the bank is owed, to avoid foreclosure — because they were no longer receiving parental help.
The latest to-do took flight last weekend following a visit to a factory where workers selected to stand behind him say they were chosen because they were no taller than Mr. Sarkozy.
