Academics warned that in some areas, there was beginning to be a "sense of no future" and that the coalition's cuts were "needlessly sacrificing" young people.

I am the unnamed academic quoted in your article as saying that the government's cuts are "needlessly sacrificing" young people.

Why did they needlessly sacrifice valuable ships in attacking Earth machines that ventured into their sectors of space when they knew that the intruders would leave in a few weeks anyway?

It's too valuable a commodity, too versatile, to sacrifice needlessly.

In our anger at Saddam, we are willing to needlessly sacrifice the lives of thousands of innocent civilians.

MANY people who have dutifully given up soy sauce, pickles and pretzels in an attempt to prevent high blood pressure by limiting salt may be sacrificing needlessly, a growing number of researchers now believe.