Garner's Modern American Usage (2009) notes that phrases like obviate the necessity or obviate the need are sometimes considered redundant, but these phrases are not redundancies, for the true sense of obviate the necessity is 'to prevent the necessity (from arising),' hence to make unnecessary..
At the Redskins game against the New York Giants on November 30, 2008, Clinton Portis ran down the field with a flag in the team's colors with the number 21 on it to honor the anniversary of Sean Taylor's death.
James Taylor: five things you never knew. James Taylor has had a notoriously colouful life, but did you know he had a run in with Mark David Chapman just 24 hours before Chapman assassinated John Lennon? 1. Taylor had a run in with Mark David Chapman just 24 hours before he assassinated John Lennon. He told the BBC in 2010: The guy had sort of pinned me to the wall and was glistening with maniacal sweat and talking some freak speak about what he was going to do..