Sentence examples for considers superfluous from inspiring English sources

A commission has identified some 5,000 functions of government, 1,000 of which it considers superfluous.

Celebrating, Heinrich told me, was considered "superfluous," and, for security reasons, was not encouraged.

This means not only curbing spending on, say, vacations, but acting across the board to forgo anything considered superfluous.

Then, Chrysler could sell or jettison any assets it did not want to keep and cancel franchise agreements with car dealers it considered superfluous.

The designers also reduced the amount of textual information on some screens, eliminating navigation details that may be considered superfluous or excessive.

"We were all considered superfluous men and girls, and of this we were of course deeply proud," says one of his closest friends at the time, Vagrich Bakhchanyan, invoking the traditional Russian literary conceit.

But at least with standard repertory, such cuts tend to be nicks and trims, or an aria for a minor character generally considered superfluous, not whole sections of a score.

Mixing foundation money with their own to go beyond the standard curriculum, the schools are teaching the nuts and bolts of running a business, setting up client referral networks for fledgling practitioners and holding seminars to tackle the mundane challenges of going it alone that are often considered superfluous to the study of law.

Between 2010 and 2012, BP conducted something of a garage sale of oil and gas fields that its leaders considered superfluous, pulling in about $38 billion, only a few billion dollars short of what it has estimated that it will pay out in Gulf spill damages.

And considering that PCs can do most of the same tasks as tablets, buying a tablet for anything other than games could be considered superfluous.

"Adaptation" is not explained at all in the teachers' textbooks of the lower grades, probably because the explanation is considered superfluous or self-evident, given that the word is used in everyday language as well, or because the writers think that the meaning of adaptation in evolution is the same as the one used in everyday language, or as the meaning the word has in physiology4.