dispensability

Disappointment and dispensability were merely part of a day's work.

But wasn't the dispensability of reason supposed to follow from the thesis about socialization?

As it turns out, the question of a doorman's dispensability was officially answered by the government six decades ago.

Yes, the premise is at best sticky: still another television youth-stroking exercise suggesting the dispensability of parents.

This was not an admission of dispensability.

It is not a foregone conclusion that essentiality or dispensability of a gene product in S. cerevisiae can be extrapolated to pathogenic fungi.

If in his last years he identified the papacy with antichristianity, the dispensability of this papacy was strong in his mind before the schism.

If contemporary social life in New York's upper echelons breeds little more than party invitations engraved on heavy vellum, it breeds dispensability.

Also, the intangible nature of their service and the speed at which it is consumed increases the dispensability and thereby decreased value of the work that they perform.

Across the region, children awoke to two of their favorite words in the English language, "School canceled," and parents, peeking out frost-covered bedroom windows, pondered their dispensability at work.

For the clerks, receptionists and other relatively low-paid workers who make up the vast majority of temps, it can be a place of mind-numbing boredom, invisibility and dispensability.

Maciunas strived to uphold his stated aims of demonstrating the artist's 'non-professional status...his dispensability and inclusiveness' and that 'anything can be art and anyone can do it.'

Robby's summation to his analyst is: "Twenty-five years he'd been there and you just had such a sense of his utter dispensability, how the next day it would seem that he'd never been there."

Recently, it has been demonstrated that the magnitude of the fitness effects associated with deleterious mutations in protein-coding genes (i.e. proteins' dispensability) correlates with rates of protein evolution [ 1 2 ] .

In molecular biology using B. subtilis as a model organism, the gene encoding subtilisin (aprE) is often the second gene of choice after amyE for integrating reporter constructs into, due to its dispensability.