Sentence examples for otiose for from inspiring English sources

If fatalism is true, then human deliberation, choice, and action are completely otiose, for what is fated will transpire no matter what one chooses to do.

Notice that the previous points, that an agent might avoid book by refusing to bet and that one might end up on the side of a sure gain, are now otiose, for here it is the agent's evaluations, rather than their consequences that are implicated by the Dutch Book.

They expect companies that claim SEPs to license their technology on terms that are "reasonable and non-discriminatory" (RAND, or FRAND, with an otiose F for "fair").

Alas, it would be equally otiose to look for legislation to change corporate governance.That does not, fortunately, mean that nothing can be done.

But let's get real: it is otiose to wait for a different art world dispensation in the ruptured economy we have built, especially in the United States, this land without a culture ministry.

"We're just giving mothers the choice," said the spokesperson for Queen's, making the mistake so otiose that it must be deliberate, of portraying a choice for people who can afford it as a meaningful choice.

She's a "moderniser", but calls for "reform" may seem a little otiose by 2020 if few services remain in the public realm.

Even here Martin's struggles for "balance" come across as slightly otiose: "While more and more inmates died as a result of malnutrition, the political prison camps continued to be run more as slave-labor and slow death camps than as instant death camps.

The explanation is not vitiated by the discovery that microstructural processes are involved, any more than explanations concerning solidity and liquidity are rendered otiose by the discovery of the microstructural base for these properties.

As for Crace's language, it would be otiose with this writer to note its blazing clarity of vision, its passionate microscopic observation and the untiring swing and spring of its rhythm.

What was rendered otiose was the sole reliance on ecological selection as the explanation for the maintenance of sex and recombination.