Sentence examples for supposedly unnecessary from inspiring English sources

Given the technology's environmental benefits, including the fact that the materials can be biodegraded after use, would applying it to manufacture supposedly unnecessary high-end items be counterproductive if it could be scaled up and people could overcome their aversion?

Taking coals to Newcastle – idiom; prov: to do something supposedly unnecessary; orig: Newcastle – an English town from which coal was shipped to other parts of England You might say it's an unlikely story – a bunch of Americans introducing rugby to British schools.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, a clownish racist whose Liberal Democratic Party's policies are as far from liberalism or democracy as they can get, proposed "cleaning" the Russian language of supposedly unnecessary borrowings last year – mentioning words such as singl, butik and performans – though it didn't get much traction then.

Have you ever spoken to someone who got one of these supposedly unnecessary back surgeries?

In the US, the running down of the public psychiatric service was sold as "deinstitutionalisation", supposedly ending unnecessary confinement.

And they've supposedly become unnecessary.

Although Stephen firmly upheld the Roman rule that rendered rebaptism unnecessary, Sixtus, supposedly influenced by Bishop St. Dionysius the Great of Alexandria, adopted a more conciliatory attitude by tolerating the Eastern policies of rebaptism.

Supposedly in order to spare unnecessary costs when the population is too sparse to supply the sufficient exoproduct level, many bacteria have evolved a simple chemical communication system called quorum sensing (QS), to "measure" the population density of clone-mates in their close neighborhood.

Regulation for credit default and interest rate swaps was deemed unnecessary because it would supposedly cause more harm than good by limiting innovation.

The club, which is named after its home district in Queensland, Australia, is instead relying on the hope that the ISIS terrorist group will be eradicated in the near future -- an eradication that would supposedly render a team name-change unnecessary.

On Friday, the fans did not cheer for Isner's opponent, the way they did on Thursday, a gesture that ignited indignation across social media, left Isner "disappointed" and created an unnecessary controversy over the cheering etiquette supposedly required of tennis fans, of all the worthwhile debates.