This allows the player to evade unnecessary battles, though some fights are necessary to advance the plot.

Admittedly, that's because the Fatherland uses them up in bloody and unnecessary battles, but they do give you a glorious funeral, I hear.

The concept aims at protecting the historic landmarks and civilians who dwell in the city from an unnecessary battle.

Recognizing those tests for what they are will allow parents to avoid unnecessary battles while encouraging their children's independence.

Salamis was, for the Persians, an unnecessary battle and a strategic mistake.

This allows the player to evade unnecessary battles.

In these cases, using a display behavior that allows the animal to estimate the opponent's fighting ability, may save the costs and risks of fighting an unnecessary battle.

It meant an unnecessary battle and therefore an unnecessary risk.

By the time the Enterprise crew figured out what the Shechenag were trying to tell them, the two ships might well be engaged in a totally unnecessary battle.

An unnecessary battle?