Sentence examples for relatively expendable from inspiring English sources

In some species, tadpole's survival depends on its ability to attract a predator's attention to the tail, a relatively expendable body part, rather than maximum swimming velocity [ 26– 28].

Compared to neurons, microglia are relatively expendable cells since there is renewal capacity from within the CNS (mitosis) as well as from bone marrow [ 66, 68, 145– 149], and one might draw the analogy to the game of chess where pawns are sacrificed to save the more valuable pieces.

Another new technology to be increased in the Persian Gulf is the SeaFox mine neutralization system, a relatively inexpensive and expendable underwater drone that can approach a mine and detonate.

In the Lockerbie case - which Britain still hopes will be heard under Scottish law in a former Nato airbase in Holland - the two accused are relatively junior, and perhaps expendable, agents.

The minor diplomatic contretemps over the fallen drone did, however, shine an unwanted light on the growing role of these relatively low-cost, nearly expendable unmanned surveillance aircraft in military operations over the Persian Gulf, as well as in North Africa and the Horn of Africa, and in the Asia-Pacific region.

Yet "The Expendables," a relatively high-budget production from the usually low-budget operators Nu Image and Millennium Films, is beginning to look like a potential late-summer winner for Lionsgate, which is to release it on Aug. 13, after a big promotional push at the Comic-Con International fan convention in late July.

Coaches have to make an example out of somebody, and who is more expendable than a relatively runty, slow and weak specimen who makes a living with his foot?

Given the relatively low stakes of the "Expendables" franchise, which no one seems to take too seriously but has also grossed $580 million in combined global box office with its first two films, it seems like as good a place to start as any.

"You make the trade-off of having a shuttle fly up every ninety days to resupply expendables like filters because the system uses relatively little power," he says.

Until relatively recently, mental-health professionals considered sexual orientation the most expendable.

It said that children -- small, agile and relatively powerless -- are "widely perceived to be a cheap and expendable commodity," and that lighter-weight weapons make it easier to arm them.