Sentence examples for unnecessary acts from inspiring English sources

Starting next season, referees will be allowed to penalize players for unsportsmanlike or "unnecessary" acts spotted during video review, even if those acts were not whistled in real time.

Although there has been some research on the consequences of unnecessary acts of violence in war zones, the lasting impact of morally injurious experience in war remains chiefly unaddressed.

Though it is too late for him, there is hope that we can prevent these unnecessary acts of lethal force in the future.

First of all, most people have experienced feeling not-the-best after a one-night stand, because things that seem like good ideas in the early hours of the morning often reveal themselves to be unnecessary acts of stupidity and desperation the following day (especially when you're riding the subway home in painful high heels, covered in the bodily secretions of a mediocre stranger).

The release of the tapes was a wholly unnecessary act of self-mortification.

"What they are trying to do is make an unnecessary act seem charitable," he said.

Once he became sick, holding him accountable for seducing the girl she'd been at eighteen — he'd been forty-three — struck her as an unnecessary act of retribution.

In this clip, Chopper's paranoia has him engage in an unnecessary act of extreme violence against a fellow prison inmate.

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In Iraq in 2003, the US dissolved the Iraqi army; this is often recalled as a foolish and unnecessary act by the head of the US occupation, Paul Bremer, which had the disastrous consequence of alienating the Sunni officer class and promoting the rise of al-Qaeda in Iraq.

An immigration attorney I spoke to suggested that, for Idriss, there was little practical risk, and that both Idriss and his employer are paying the price for an unnecessary act of defiance.