Sentence examples for superfluous additions from inspiring English sources

But the very structure of development is a brake on innovation: from mass builders that insist on bland design so as to appeal to a wide market; to planners that insist on "in keeping" pastiches of earlier domestic technology leading to superfluous additions such as stick-on fake chimneys; to local authorities that trouser huge payments for enabling developers to throw up flats rapidly.

Models, they hold, are superfluous additions that are at best of pedagogical, aesthetical or psychological value (Carnap 1938, Hempel 1965; see also Bailer-Jones 1999).

Thus, it disheartens me and my fellow campaigners that while these workers are being systematically discriminated against and exploited, there are plans to spend millions of dollars on superfluous additions such as a domed practice field for the football team, hundreds and thousands of flowers around Grounds, and countless other trivialities.

The Touch, however, is a superfluous addition to Apple's iPod roster.

Heidegger's most famous presentation of Van Gogh's painting pivots again on an ambiguous use of "nothing," to which Heidegger now adds an elliptical, intimating locution ("And yet…") in order to encourage his audience to hear a subtle shift and so notice the meaning suggested by his otherwise superfluous addition, "and nothing more".

Nanosized microstructure with pore size less than 10 nm can be observed with small amount of F-127 addition (less than 0.06 g/ml), where as larger spherical or tubular pores are found with superfluous F-127 addition (higher than 0.08 g/ml).

But while these additions are superfluous to many a user's needs, everyone pays for them whether they're used or not.

The crop that enriches the Bertrams is sugar, criticised at the time by Thomas Love Peacock as an "economically superfluous" and "physically pernicious" addition to the English diet; more shockingly, Byrne notices that Austen's father acted as an intermediary for cronies who traded in Indian opium.

These modules help to reduce superfluous computation in the system and in addition reducing the rate of false positives without compromising on the false negatives.

In addition, autophagy facilitates the removal of superfluous and damaged organelles to help cells adapt to changing nutrient conditions and maintain their homeostasis.

In addition, almost all questions were also rated superfluous by some members of each profession.