Sentence examples for was neither needed from inspiring English sources

Initially, all inter-Korean meetings were cancelled, with the North loudly proclaiming that food aid from the South was neither needed nor wanted.

Since subjects cannot be identified and confidentiality was warranted, institutional review board approval for this study was neither needed nor sought.

Marinating is neither needed nor desirable, but a quick touch of olive oil, salt and pepper won't hurt.

The withdrawal of one-third of the American troops stationed in South Korea (front page, June 8), where they are neither needed nor appreciated, is long overdue.

It was like any motorway service station - except that the queues were of troop carriers and trucks with rocket launchers, and credit cards were neither needed nor accepted.

Then there is the relentless and aggressive branch expansion – around 35 new ones every year in this country, even where they are neither needed nor wanted.

While we are included in the list of those exempted from performing same-sex marriages, such "protection" is neither needed nor wanted.

Accordingly, various studies on RC structures subjected to blast loads suggest that the tedious details are neither needed nor desirable (Crawford et al. 2012).

This is accomplished by using a particular definition of social importance: Considering only those areas that are neither needed for food and wood supply nor are covered by natural ecosystems (because of their importance for nature conservation).

However, he also emphasized that translation is neither needed in the comparison of incommensurable theories, nor in the hermeneutic historical method necessary to understand antiquated sciences (Kuhn 2000 [1993], 237, 238, 244).

Someone who thinks this, is likely to see little point in keeping assent in reserve for a kind of certainty which he thinks is neither needed nor possible, though he cannot be certain of this any more than he can be of anything else.