Obviates

It's such an obvious threat that the mere mention of his ? name obviates the need for any explanation of the importance of this letter or even a link. ❋ Karoli (2010)

That "obviates" the need to raise taxes of foreign companies operating in the U.S., he said. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That data needn’t be encyclopedic — an advanced chip’s capacity is 2 kilobytes, enough to encode a serial number, where and when the product was manufactured, and a bit more — but the RFID tag obviates the need for bar-code scanning. ❋ Unknown (2002)

And if you have to start worrying about the relative differences between players, then you're going to need a ranking system that makes finer distinctions between players than mere tiering would do, which kind of obviates the whole point of tiering in the first place. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Their case was weak to begin with but this decision obviates the need for a challenge. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If you have engaged in a mind/body practice for any length of time, you have probably experienced qi in a direct way that obviates the need for scientific validation. ❋ Arthur Rosenfeld (2010)

New York City tax revenue this year is expected to be $2 billion higher than budget officials anticipated, a windfall that obviates plans to slash teaching positions beyond the 6,166 slots Mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed cutting in November, administration officials confirmed Wednesday. ❋ Michael Howard Saul (2011)

Palin is a vapid, air-headed, politico whose support of the aerial gunning of wolves completely obviates any right she has to be considered a sportsperson. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I noticed that my Chief used the word Christmas by saying “have a safe and peaceful Christmas”, which obviates the need to celebrate it, enjoy it, rejoice in it or anything that would be incompatible with the Anglo-Saxon, Christian slant. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Such a process avoids hasty consideration of issues, premature and uninformed judgments, embarrassing decisions and obviates the need for the futile pursuit of impractical policies as evidenced in this ban. ❋ Alemayehu G. Mariam (2010)

The other main usefulness of this view, Mr. Baron-Cohen writes, is that it at last obviates words like "evil" for describing behavior that is cruel beyond description. ❋ Raymond Zhong (2011)

I might add: Eating hand-cut fries obviates the need for chips in bags, whatever their volume. ❋ Eric Felten (2010)

At least TrueCrypt obviates the need for BitLocker. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You eliminated the whole bestiality reference, which obviates what I was going for. toby says: ❋ Unknown (2010)

The transformation of Scriptural truth into the existential truth of Jesus and his existence as the son of God obviates the literal meaning of the text. ❋ David Shasha (2010)

Giving investors the freedom to decide whether to use ratings "obviates the need for the approach the commission is taking of micro-managing the choice and content of ratings," said S&P spokesman Martin Winn. ❋ Matthew Dalton (2012)

Storing files and photos online and using Web-based email obviates the need to lug your life around with you. ❋ Mike Malone (2011)