Someday computers could even make superfluous a few of those million-dollar-a-year block traders manning banks of telephones.
Fueled by tax-exempt contributions from left-wing foundations, NRDC has forced the deficit-ridden state to squander scarce resources on a superfluous study because a special interest group wants a do-over on a settled regulatory matter.
The industry, however, viewed another organization for cybersecurity issues as a superfluous layer of bureaucracy, a telecom official said.
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What made sense for the Grove with its reputation and targeted services to promote may be a superfluous cost for simpler stores who can make do with a stripped-down mobile version of their website.
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Said differently, the field activities for each superfluous function is a latent political constituency waiting to be activated.
Perhaps because he would rather be out on the water than in a superfluous meeting, he has delegated more responsibility, and established clearer chains of command throughout Serono than did his father, who took a more paternalistic approach.
He takes on a new assistant, in the shape of Troy (Colin Hanks) a pleasant fellow, who keeps telling us (in a superfluous voice-over) how life-changing the experience has been, although he seems no less dull at the end of it than he did at the start.
The first ad the brand showed, during the Oscars telecast last month, gave Volt a largely superfluous cameo.
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The gloom and doomers advise the premier the only way to avert this prospect is to render such a resolution superfluous by preemptively capitulating to all of Obama's demands.
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Obviously such a facility is superfluous given all the world-class academic medical centers in Boston.
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It is reasonable and, unfortunately, even expected that the discovery process results in the production of a certain amount of superfluous data or documents.
But in reality, deflation is the free-market approach to rectify a secular period of superfluous money supply growth, debt accumulation and asset price appreciation.
And perhaps that may prove to be his best business lesson after all: how a great leader eventually makes himself superfluous.
If DVDs and online tests replaced the classroom, a lot of teachers would be rendered superfluous.
The idea of playing around with technology in such a way might appear quirky, even superfluous.
Yet such an agreement, which the conventional wisdom deemed highly significant and urgent just a few months ago, now appears superfluous (or in any event no big deal).
While movie stars are seemingly somewhat superfluous in the age of Transformers and Avatar, a look at the top grossing films of 2010 on Box Office Mojo shows that stars still matter.
But the conceit is smartly wrought, so much so that the attempts at comic relief (using a CGI chipmunk and Timothy Spall as a henchman) seem not just lumpen but superfluous.
But geometry is even more important for the movement: a movement must be geometrically perfect, nothing superfluous, nothing that makes the movement look out of proportion, and it must have the perfect finish.
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Imagine -- you spend all season training this sort-of-rapper guy to stumble around the stage dodging colorful lasers and superfluous dancers, and suddenly he sits perfectly still on a bar stool with (GASP) a musical instrument and delivers one of the best performances of the season!
Kent Schaffer, who held on for six months before being fired earlier this year, said Mr. Stanford wanted the criminal trial to be moved to another city, in spite of being advised by Mr. Schaffer that the priority should be to prepare for trial, not to fight for a change of venue, among other "superfluous" issues.
Sechele had five wives, and Livingstone insisted that to become a Christian he needed get rid of the "superfluous" ones.
Some in the British press sneered: "A crusade has been started to force on London superfluous luxuries such as those overstocked across the Atlantic, " warned the British Weekly, according to Woodhead's history.
With the PowerPoint slides up on a video screen, Doan's presence was almost superfluous for the Democrats.
Seeing them back on the court a month later in red, white and blue is almost superfluous.
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Once he got his flying license, he seemed a liberated man, free to travel as he wished without superfluous demands on time and energy.
If you pause or take a breath in between phrases or sentences when answering a question or talking about yourself, you will be less likely to insert superfluous words into your conversation.
There is the false concept of the football student-athlete that the NCAA endlessly tries to sell, when any major college player will tell you that the demands of the game, a year-round commitment, makes the student half of the equation secondary and superfluous.
Once thought of as superfluous, emoticons are now serious business with downloadable apps and customized, animated expressions used to convey a quick LOL or SMH.
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And in a move that augurs well for those of you averse to branding, there's no superfluous carrier logo blemishing its smooth white back -- at least, not on the model we handled.
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