Sentence examples for to be surplus from inspiring English sources

In 2008 he deemed Mathieu Flamini, David Trezeguet, Philippe Mexès and Gaël Clichy to be surplus to requirements.

The misfit Italian, who was deemed by Jürgen Klopp to be surplus to requirements, joins on a one-year deal.

After he exited, the Nationals added insurance in the eighth with Ian Desmond's solo home run, but the run proved to be surplus.

More specifically, Greece officials are being pressed to put thousands of civil servants deemed to be "surplus" on a standby status at a reduced wage.

I'm not keen however; the meat seems to be surplus to requirements here, and I've never been a fan of rubbery boiled bacon in any case.

Some of the food pallets were stamped "Hurricane Harvey," and appeared to be surplus from the catastrophe that had recently struck Houston.

The Giraffe restaurants and Harris + Hoole, the coffee chain, could be surplus to requirements.

It tried to lease 10 which were surplus to requirements to Croydon council in 2011, but failed.

One is the 36-year-old Nick Easter, who continues to excel for Harlequins despite being surplus to requirements throughout Lancaster's regime.

The research nurse was present at thoracic surgery to collect the tissue, which was surplus to diagnostic requirements.

Although Social Security currently has a $2.8 trillion reserve and is projected to be in surplus this year, Congress limits how much it can spend of that surplus on administration.