non-vital

The only non-vital piece of kit that Sam had held onto all these years, he had been wearing it since before he sold the hydro farm back on Earth and set out for the asteroids to try his luck extracting ore.

365 tomorrows » 2010 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2010

That is exactly what I want, at least from the point of view of military intervention in non-vital affairs.

If North Korea is bad… « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

Originally, it had a 256 meg RAM chip in it; also, a number of non-vital programs running in the background were filling up the cache to about 80% of its capacity.

I am Awash in Memory JDsg 2007

The spores enter the body of the insect through its spiracles, where they begin to consume the non-vital soft tissues.

PSA 2008

Even if the use of air conditioning is more efficient in some places rather than others or they are replaced by air curtains, like in stores in Hong Kong, can we justify the consumption of electricity in such a non-vital way?

Archive 2008-06-08 papabear 2008

The United States announced Monday it was pulling out non-vital embassy staff from Chad while the UN Security Council and African Union both denounced the rebel assault.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

There can be no doubt about it: any use of the natural resources for the satisfaction of non-vital human needs means a smaller quantity of life in the future.

Environmental and ecological economics 2008

The spores enter the body of the insect through its spiracles, where they begin to consume the non-vital soft tissues.

Fungus among us 2008

This has meant that immediate profits overruled everything else – it meant non-vital entities had to be cut in order to show profit.

Do Flat Out Globalist GOP Traitors INTEND to Kill the USA's Auto Industry? 2008

You should probably take a bullet to a non-vital area for Ken at some point in order to thank him.

My screaming starship David Campbell 2008