But challenging pre-game rhetoric was a ploy that had seemed unnecessary.

After all, it has seemed increasingly unnecessary.

"If there's a patrol heading there, it seems unnecessary for you to go as well."

He had been about to give his full name and honorific, but it had suddenly seemed unnecessary.

The economy was growing handsomely, and worrying about what the city was doing to invest in its future may have seemed unnecessary.

Seemed a bit unnecessary to me, I must say, but I suppose they think differently.

But by 2001, the controls had expired and seemed unnecessary.

Lance had intended to bring him into town again; but had postponed that plan because it had seemed unnecessary.

To the casual reader the "Policy Wonk" story may have seemed unnecessary, but not to me.

A week ago, such comments would have seemed unnecessary.