Sentence examples for extraneous assets from inspiring English sources

With the finds in Mozambique, along with others in the Barents Sea and off Indonesia, Mr. Scaroni has leeway to do what one of Eni's big shareholders, Knight Vinke Asset Management, an activist fund manager based in Monaco, has been urging: focus on exploration and production and get rid of extraneous assets.

A lanky, genial man whose close-cropped hair has turned grayer in the last 18 months, Mr. Ricke favors incremental, often painful, steps: cutting costs, through a deep reduction in the number of employees, selling off extraneous assets, and raising profits in basic services.

Big question: Does he have the stomach to cut away extraneous or underperforming assets?

Do military officials on the whole tend to see these companies as valuable assets or extraneous and harmful?

All of these pieces could be considered extraneous in the face of the debt load Dell is facing, and the assets it will acquire once the EMC deal is done.

The effort is extraneous.

Slushy details are extraneous.

They are comforting, extraneous debris.

"No extraneous marks," he said.

There must be nothing extraneous.

All extraneous at this stage.