Sentence examples for superfluous by from inspiring English sources

Anthony, a one-dimensional scorer, seems superfluous by some measures.

"Their outstanding know-how was treated as superfluous by the Soviets, but it survived.

The fat that popular persuasion attributes to alcohol is fat derived from other foods, whose calories have been replaced, and rendered superfluous, by alcohol.

Telmex came encumbered by a powerful union, obsolete copper lines, and seven thousand telephone operators whose jobs had been made superfluous by direct dialling.

In light of the decades of work, the financial outpouring, and the emotional commitment, it may be shocking to learn that Kirstein regarded himself as "superfluous" by early 1934.

"There is not the slightest chance," Kela writes of the Maoist Adivasis, one of the peoples rendered superfluous by industrial capitalism, "that they will ever become a factory proletariat".

The joke is told tenderly by Paul Reiser; urbanely by Martin Mull; seductively by the sublime Sarah Silverman; gravely and in loving, superfluous detail by George Carlin; and shrilly, with an emotion bordering on hysteria, by the inspired pixie Gilbert Gottfried.

But the president warned that "much work remains to be done" if the environment is to be completely phased out by the first quarter of next year and called for the accelerated extinction of all superfluous organisms by the end of fiscal 2008.

It's fun to overcome an ostensibly superfluous challenge by giving it your time, attention, and respect.

Time and again, Verdi's musical-dramatic points are rendered superfluous, overridden by Mr. Tcherniakov's clinical construct, ingenious though it is.

Human rights organizations and other progressive NGOs already fully disclose their funding, rendering the current bill superfluous even by the standards of its supporters.