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.
How old is Jonathan Taylor Thomas? Jonathan Taylor Thomas is 35 years old (birthdate: September 8, 1981). There are three kinds of answers: ones that are mostly right, ones that are mostly wrong, and those that once were right but now are wrong.