In writing the report, use only information that is germane to the main topic.    From LearnThat.org. 

He asks questions that are germane and central to the issue.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Most germane is its inclusion of uncertainty in any interpretation of reality and the facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [February « 2009 « Sentence first] Reference

Possibly the spirit of the artist is foreign to you, sir, yet perhaps I may put it in terms germane to your own profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Star]

He felt 'black people' were not 'germane' to his plot.    From Wordnik.com.  [the misogyny post (updated)] Reference

"Academic freedom" only protects a professor's speech that is "germane" to the class 'subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greg Lukianoff: UC Santa Barbara Investigates Professor for Anti-Israel E-Mail] Reference

(D-Mass.), who ruled that they were not "germane" to the legislation under consideration.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Mitchell had pressed Steele for reading an amendment which was not "germane" because it couldn't pass (Sanders 'single payer amendment).    From Wordnik.com.  [Media Matters for America - Limbaugh Wire] Reference

I suppose that’s kind of germane to the threadjack.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy » The 82-Minute Sentence:] Reference

The first person was more germane to my existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [THIS BOY'S LIFE] Reference

But that's not germane to the question I asked you.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2007] Reference

Hussein's argument is especially germane to Thailand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Amsterdam: Emergency Powers and Thailand's Internal Colonization] Reference

It's not a phenomenon that is germane just to this area.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2007] Reference

But it's -- germane to the point I'm trying to make here.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 27, 2002] Reference

The loss "wasn't germane to what we were doing here," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [After $9 Billion Loss, Trader Revives Career] Reference

So my question about America's high fertility is still germane.    From Wordnik.com.  [Philip N. Cohen: Are Low Birth Rates A Milestone or a Tipping Point?] Reference

The mere fact that he had seen her the day before was not germane.    From Wordnik.com.  [White Ashes] Reference

He's talking about things that are not germane for the discussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 11, 2008] Reference

In this connection it is germane to ask what the Protestant people of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ireland and the Home Rule Movement] Reference

With reference to that point it is surely germane to remember that the.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

The sacrificial heart has at all times been accounted germane to nobility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference

And this is not something that is germane just to this Long Island school.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 17, 2007] Reference

To do so would be to treat the creatures by a law not germane to their nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election] Reference

As this issue was germane to him, he thought that nothing truer could have been spoken.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference

I asked Maillot a good many questions, but elicited no further information germane to the tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Paternoster Ruby] Reference

But seriously, some of my past experiences of less-than-great times are germane to what's going on now.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oldies Are Back] Reference

It is not germane to the subject to name the various ocular diseases which were treated in this manner, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913] Reference

The issue of privatization is germane when one considers the members of the Commission approved by the President.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marshall Auerback: Which Party Poses the Real Risk to Social Security's Future?] Reference

"It is important for us to focus on what areas of corruption are the most germane," said a senior defense official.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Shifts Afghan Graft Plan] Reference

There is a curious document germane to the subject of this sloka copied in the official notes of Sir Robert Chambers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya] Reference

It having been intimated to me that this was in a measure true, I have selected as such an event one germane to this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1] Reference

Each of these suggestions contains a truth, and that, too, a truth which is germane to the main lesson of the parable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference

Image, 66, is of sufficient interest to be shown here, despite the fact that it is not strictly germane to our subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Lettering A Treatise With 200 Examples] Reference

Of the nature of the variations, however, there are some points to be considered which are very germane to our subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Living Machine A Review of the Conclusions of Modern Biology in Regard to the Mechanism Which Controls the Phenomena of Living Activity] Reference

Try and strike something germane to the moment, something that stands out prominently in the limelight of the passing show.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Speak and Write Correctly] Reference

"Shall we wet your salmon inside?" asked Grey, very quietly, and with a seriousness not obviously germane to a festive occasion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

First, Snowe knows as well as anybody that for more than 200 years the Senate has put zero value in whether an amendment is germane.    From Wordnik.com.  [HUFFPOST HILL - SEPTEMBER 20TH, 2010] Reference

We append, as germane to the subject, the following piece of sensible advice given by Rev. J.C. Price of Salisbury, N.C., to his brethren.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 44, No. 05, May, 1890] Reference