Sentence examples for extraneous units from inspiring English sources

Home Depot's new management had planned to shed all extraneous units to focus on its core retail chain.

Two months ago, Bain Capital Partners, the Carlyle Group and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, agreed to buy the supply unit from Home Depot, which was looking to shed extraneous units and concentrate on its core retail chain.

It also fits with Chief Executive Brian Moynihan's efforts to sell off extraneous business units.

He ended up editing YoungTrigg's edits, toning down entries that seemed biased, removing material that seemed extraneous, like the exact unit that Ms. Palin's son is serving in that will be going to Iraq.

Although some investors see the unit as extraneous to Pfizer's core pharmaceuticals business, that is not likely to stop other drug giants — most notably GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis — from plunking down bids for the business.

Herrnstein's (1970) response-strength equation defines a hyperbolic relation between response rate, R, and reinforcement rate, r, thus: (4) R = R max × r K H + r where Rmax and KH are free parameters. 1 Herrnstein (1970 , 1974 interpreted KH (r0 in his notation) as the rate of extraneous (unobserved) reinforcement, expressed in units of the reference (food) reinforcer.

Therefore Einstein's mass-energy equation, E = mc2, does not require extraneous constants when expressed in coherent units.

The angular effect described above can also be observed in the noiseless case when the LP model order, in which case the "extraneous" PEF zeros tend to be uniformly distributed around the unit circle if a minimum norm constraint is incorporated in the LP criterion [45].

However, because the newer 2010 Census used higher resolution census units (blocks) to define Urban Area boundaries, we retroactively removed extraneous non-urban areas from the 2000 data by eliminating any part that extended outside the more-refined 2010 boundary, with the assumption that a non-urban location from 2010 was also not an urban location in 2000.

Units drop gear in gunfights and abandoned vehicles and positions are sometimes littered with extraneous radios and weapons that are quickly picked up.

There is nothing extraneous.