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How To Use Expendable In A Sentence

  • Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.
  • They were weak, expendable with relatively little power in the committee structure.
  • These institutions were "industrial schools" "reformatories" and "orphanages"; in other words, the children were considered outcasts and, therefore, expendable. No Wall Between Church and State: Ireland and The Largest Child Abuse Scandal in History
  • The group was seen as inferior and therefore expendable.
  • The remote-controlled vehicle is designed to be expendable, carries its own warhead, and uses cheaper components.
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  • It used to be that the Vice President was expendable, relatively unimportant and rather decorative.
  • Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable.
  • The very cultures that men have built, he says, have considered males more "expendable" than women. Testosterone Put to the Test
  • One of his problems as a player is an abundance of expendable energy that he only knows how to use while on the basketball court - he's ‘too amped up,’ as he describes it.
  • The greatest conceit - that pregnancy is not a health issue and women's lives are expendable - underlies the dual standards of Republican Party pronatalist policy demanding female submission to males who assume the right to hold women hostage to biology. Michele Swenson: "Non-Personhood" for Women: Defining Women Down
  • In this scandalous era, savvy operatives like him are expendable.
  • There are other uses for cheap, expendable remote sensors.
  • This forced commercial satellites onto expendable launch vehicles, which had a higher risk of failure than the relatively safe shuttle.
  • My hands commenced a series of tasks they knew instinctively: reseating the refueling probe, putting the flaps in “auto,” turning the expendables on, calling up the targeting pod, selecting the gun, slewing the pod toward the target area. A Nightmare’s Prayer
  • One of the most important decisions to be made is whether Europe's new launchers will be expendable or reusable.
  • Did NASA carefully review to make sure they don't inadvertantly have some of the crew in an "expendable" classification? ISS Expedition 21 Poster Now Online - NASA Watch
  • The orbital space plane will initially launch on an expendable vehicle and provide rescue capability for at least four crew members.
  • What makes some art expendable and some art permanent?
  • Today's NASA, in contrast, is focused on re-engineering big, expensive expendable rockets provided by hand-picked favorite contractors to launch throw-away spacecraft (also provided by hand-picked favorite contractors) whose designs are shackled to ancient architectural mentalities driven almost entirely by lunar access expediencies instead of long-term operational sustainability considerations. Sean O'Keefe Responds to Jay Barbree - NASA Watch
  • She could have at least made an effort at candidness, but Mike reckoned once you'd been to the other side, sincerity was an expendable commodity.
  • In a changed political climate, and with like-minded women unable to defend her publicly, a feminist heroine, it turned out, was a very expendable creature.
  • In these conservation - conscious times, areas of grassland are no longer expendable.
  • So I was found to be expendable and sincere apologies were made to all concerned.
  • The James Webb Space Telescope is scheduled for launch in 2010 aboard an expendable launch vehicle.
  • For Brother Jack, individuals (even entire communities) are expendable, if the historical dialectic so dictates.
  • Have we made marriage less attractive to men by pretending that men are expendable, that fatherless families are just "alternative family forms?"
  • Even huge turnaround time improvements on a refurbished vehicle doesn't seem like it would be such a significant design driver for a commercial payload vehicle to offset proven launch systems such as expendable rockets or something like a 2009 version of an X-15. Masten Space System's Xombie Make First Successful Test Flight - NASA Watch
  • Del Mar and other community colleges have been told to submit plans identifying as expendable up to 5 percent of their state funding. Corpus Christi Caller Times, Caller.com Stories
  • Some may say I have a vested interest in the discussion; because if a child can be defined as expendable, what then of a person in their declining years? Requiring viewing of pre-abortion ultrasounds: I’m with Crist on this one
  • Hard power cannot sustain international leadership because it alienates other states and it is expendable.
  • In these conservation - conscious times, areas of grassland are no longer expendable.
  • She was a small and expendable part of it, to be deleted when, as now, his time was full. AN OLDER WOMAN
  • The countermeasures system can dispense chaff cartridges and infrared flares and the POET and GEN-X active expendable decoys.
  • My hands commenced a series of tasks they knew instinctively: reseating the refueling probe, putting the flaps in “auto,” turning the expendables on, calling up the targeting pod, selecting the gun, slewing the pod toward the target area. A Nightmare’s Prayer
  • So I was found to be expendable and sincere apologies were made to all concerned.
  • Circumstances cause Vincent to hijack Max's taxicab, and Max becomes collateral - an expendable person in the wrong place at the wrong time.
  • In the Great War soldiers were considered expendable.
  • If the launching vehicle is an expendable rocket, the process is somewhat less complex.
  • The Remote Miniature Weather Station (RMWS), from System Innovations, is an air-droppable version with a lightweight, expendable and modular system comprised of two components; a meteorological (MET) sensor and a ceilometer (cloud ceiling height) with limited MET. Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • Jacob knew he was expendable once he was inside the container.
  • I would like to see NASA develop a flyback, air breathing first stage next with expendable 2nd stages. The 1990 Augustine Commission Revisited - NASA Watch
  • The GOES-O satellite is on the move, on its way to Launch Complex 37 at Cape Canaveral, where it will be moved to the United Launch Alliance Delta IV expendable launch vehicle.
  • Well break out your razor,[sentence dictionary] fire up the grill and crack open a bottle of steak sauce because today's two stars from The Expendables are as macho as they come.
  • The city council ranks them and votes to eliminate the most expendable.
  • Because it was easier to adapt existing military missiles, which are designed for a single flight, most launchers have been expendable.
  • I don't see it, which means TLR may announce next week his plans to audition Craig at the position next spring. dub the beachcomber: wave master, we have too many outfielders and the braves are looking for one. they have lots of pitching. do you see a match up? which card outfielder is most expendable and what caliber player could they bring? thanks joe STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
  • Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet were the ideal diabolical team and Elisha Cook Jr. was perfect as the expendable gunsel.
  • If approved, the telescope mission could be ready for launch in 2014, on board a large expendable rocket.
  • The main victims were overwhelmingly ill-educated working-class boys and therefore expendable.
  • He chuckled at a perky, muff-like dog tottering along as if to remind the Swedes a British dog is what a dog is - unexpendable, functionless, highly ridiculous.
  • Political pundits knew that he was politically expendable, but few expected him to be expended so quickly.
  • I do not want government telling me what doctor to visit, how much to pay him, and when my grandmother will be considered "expendable" by government health care beauracrats. House Democrat: Health care bill in doubt without public plan
  • The problem with present desire for NASA to base its entire Space Program on expendable launch vehicles, is the key word expendable! International Space Plane Program Is The Future
  • I stated that the development and production cost of Shuttle C would approach that of Ares V since the orbiter is an expendable vehicle. The 1990 Augustine Commission Revisited - NASA Watch
  • If anything goes wrong, these expendable crews are abandoned to their fates - at sea or on land.
  • Is it more economical and practical to have reusable launchers or low-cost expendable launchers?
  • Just a few miles away, the company works on another expendable launch vehicle - the Delta IV.
  • Sure, people will see movies regardless of a reviewer's opinion, but this does not make critics expendable, as you infer in your letter.
  • Once the film has killed off all its expendable characters, it spends far too much time trying to explain the source of the evil cell phones.
  • They were expendable anyway, since whenever the ship was hit, control panels and consoles on the bridge would short out in their faces.
  • To treat the resultant civilian casualties as ‘regrettable but inevitable’ is to regard innocent lives as expendable.
  • During the recession, training budgets were seen as an expendable luxury.
  • It's a sad moment when a man loses his job and discovers that he is expendable.
  • Coaches are often treated as utterly expendable.
  • Sylvester Stallone as Barney Ross aka The Schizo, a veteran Expendable and leader of the team.
  • What is worse is that most of these suggestions are, at best modest, and often unambitious - even those that significantly modify the Senate, since it is considered by many to be anachronistic, marginal and even expendable.
  • He argued that expendable vehicles are already called upon to launch high-value unmanned payloads.
  • Therefore, we were expendable and they made sure we knew it.
  • They learn James went to Scotland with friends who know his aunt is a vampire; their fathers belong to belong to the Order of the Silver Palm who will use Olivia and James as expendable pawns to get the Blood Grail they think Reign has. Let the Night Begin-Kathryn Smith « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
  • This would enable the launch of an Orion and an expendable orbital work platform that includes an EVA airlock, a remote manipulator arm and the necessary berthing equipment as well as the replacement components on shuttle-style payload racks. New Uses for Constellation Systems? - NASA Watch
  • Millions of people - who have suffered decades of war and sanctions - are once again used as expendable stakes in an imperial gambit by the rich and powerful.
  • Both were more or less expendable from his point of view.
  • The workshop will address system studies and technology developments for future European expendable launchers and reusable launch vehicles.
  • Nowadays, most tool purchases involve replacing the expendable items such as drill bits, sanding belts and specialty taps and anything else that wears out.
  • These points appear to have been manufactured with expediency, and they were therefore likely expendable.
  • New vehicles are expected to be developed in the future, including a few more expendables and a new generation of reusables.
  • So far, sites have focused their attention on a younger demographic, which is finite, fickle and limited in expendable income. Selling Ad Space on Social Networks | Impact Lab
  • We are expendable pawns in a political chess game, and we resent the very real damage they do to us every single day.
  • Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable.
  • Is it more economical and practical to have reusable launchers or low-cost expendable launchers?
  • The harsh reality of military life is that the guy would have to be someone relatively expendable.
  • From this Stratfordian retreat of an Old World cottage I would penetrate New World perfidies of expendable media personalities, crime new and old under the sun, the fate of lost body doubles, and the world wide web of crime and extortion and immortality that made modern Las Vegas all things extravagant and evil. Dancing with Werewolves
  • Reps are not trying to dictate your healthcare, we do not want dems having govt dictate that the unborn is expendable via Obama reform healthcare bill. Abortion issue clouds health care debate
  • She was a small and expendable part of it, to be deleted when, as now, his time was full. AN OLDER WOMAN
  • It was not supposed to do anything that an expendable launcher would not do.
  • Since January, eight spacecraft were deployed on seven expendable launch vehicles.
  • Which type of launcher can best meet these criteria: expendable or reusable?
  • His sword impaled one, but the weapon was wrenched aside as the leader flung the expendable one forward and raised his axe in both hands. The Gates of Thorbardin
  • One or two such sorties are capable of supplying the entire expendable needs of the theater for a day.
  • If the transport is an expendable, throwaway rocket, there are no people present when the craft arrives in space.
  • This involved a number of factors such as pogo suppression, structural stiffening, and other details not particularly germane to today's expendable vehicles. NASA Watch: February 2008 Archives
  • System composition, capability of mine hunting sonar and expendable are briefly introduced in the article.
  • Once our services cease to be useful to them, we're expendable.
  • Where he may have erred is in adding the stress and strain of another job when others could have carried it out just as well, others who were, perhaps, more expendable.
  • As disastrous as the space shuttle destruction was, it resulted in reviving America's expendable launch vehicle industry.
  • The real reason such plans would be scraped is that the RECURRING operations and production cost of an expendable Constellation dual-vehicle architecture, the cost of getting there only, transportation only, leaves no remaining funds in 2020 given (1) current ops and production projections and (2) considering small growth in those costs as likely. A Shift in Policy? Moon Base Axed? - NASA Watch
  • Moss Street residents reacted with anger to news that their homes were expendable.
  • The vast majority is taken by expendable launch vehicles.
  • What I find warped is the desire people have to pull down their own country, and to look at the people who are defending it, covertly or not, as expendable. Guardian column: Secrets « BuzzMachine
  • -- Palestinians will settle for a cantonized "prison state," according to Jeff Halper, director of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions; Israel will relax its military harshness and replace it with colonial exploitation masquerading as economic development; the process is well-advanced, Palestinian cities are ghettos, agricultural land is disappearing, Israel plunders the land, intends to exploit an expendable cheap labor pool, and the Territories are being "asphyxiated;" and/or Jonathan Cook's "Blood and Religion"
  • Most are expendable packages attached to helium or hydrogen-filled weather balloons and only a small number of the sensors are retrieved.
  • Nowadays, most tool purchases involve replacing the expendable items such as drill bits, sanding belts and specialty taps and anything else that wears out.
  • Under the hood, all original T-Bird parts were used in the restorations except for expendable items like the carburetor and the battery.

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