(1) This formulation of the argument begins by asking a simple question: When looking at the inherited traditions of a society, how can we know with certainty which are essential and which are dispensable ?(2) And finally, would the government get to decide which red streams were necessary and which were dispensable ?(3) Yet these aren't dispensable technicalities or bits of mere philosophical jargon; they're essential to any useful discussion of ethics.(4) In short, he has become politically dispensable .(5) If we could, the manuscripts would become unnecessary, dispensable .(6) The fourth group can be characterized as the urban working class, most of whom are increasingly dispensable and replaceable; their diminished prospects cause them to be generally opposed to globalization.(7) Strange as it may seem, most people, especially men with their precious egos, do not like being told that the arrogance bred into them by their proud parents is an overbearing and dispensable quality.(8) There is always something happening in the European style villageu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u252cu00ac festivals, wine-tasting, shops that sell more than dispensable souvenirs, and entertainment.(9) In evolutionary terms, human beings are clearly dispensable .(10) We should not, however, assume from this that for Augustine-or for us-this parable is dispensable , a redundant repetition of a message that we already know from elsewhere.(11) But acquisition of a land title was often a dispensable technicality for those too poor to purchase one, or who were not inclined to do so because of the vastness of the land.(12) And I have come to feel really dispensable , as though my initiative and judgment - the things that I personally can bring to the job - are not only unnecessary but unwelcome.(13) Novelists seem to have as much to say as ever, but maybe books are becoming more and more dispensable to the modern human animal.(14) This is achieved by doubling all the components, effectively making each component dispensable or u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510redundantu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(15) During the last century, when communism attempted to conquer the world, the poor were never better than its dispensable foot-soldiers.(16) Speaking at the presentation ceremony, the Minister condemned those who have said that Irish has no place in modern society and that it is a dispensable relic from the past.