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This would have worked if only the first two acts (set in the Philippines circa 1883 and 1943, respectively) didn't turn out to be inessential backstories for the original script, which is now act three.

Solskjaer almost certainly won't specify which players are inessential at next week's press conference opener but he was still a mere caretaker when he informed Woodward which players needed to go.

The PDP maintained that the security of lives of all Nigerians, ought to have been paramount to the President and not determined by inessential factors, if indeed he has the interest of the people at heart.

'What passes is excess, what fades is the inessential, what stays is simplicity; therein lies the universal appeal of Japanese culture.'

One obvious result is the weakening of analytic ability -- the capacity to distinguish between the essential and the inessential, truth and untruth.

Leading lady Mouni Roy appears more inessential than her last Bollywood outing, Gold .

In a commencement speech to Harvard University, international bestselling author JK Rowling talked about failure as a "stripping away of the inessential." It allowed her to stop pretending to herself about who she was and start to focus her energy on what mattered most, her writing.

He is the youngish assistant to a New York City councilwoman, and a college graduate with an "inessential" degree and a dwindling sense of life's purpose.

A building that is well-insulated saves inessential wastage and encourages the conservation of heat energy.

Lately I've pushed a dozen or so boxes of inessential items out the door, things I will no longer wash or iron or take to the dry cleaners.

There is an attempt to restrain inessential imports and reduce cost of imported inputs for exports, but it is woefully inadequate, given the massive current account deficit.