Removing an Item from Magento's Admin Panel Navigation

Using the Magento Ecommerce system, is is possible to remove an item from the Admin Panel Navigation menu? More generally, is there a way to use the config override system to remove existing elements from a configuration?

I know I can add to the navigation with an override that looks something like this

0.1.0

<adminhtml>
    <menu>
         <cms translate="title" module="cms">
            <title>The CMS</title>
            <sort_order>70</sort_order>
            <children>
                <foo translate="title" module="cms">
                    <title>Foo Item</title>
                    <action>adminhtml/foo</action>
                </foo>
            </children>
         </cms>
    </menu>    
</adminhtml>

but how would/could I completely suppress the CMS navigation item?

From stackoverflow

• You could inject a bogus module dependency into the menu item in your config.xml.

  In your case,

  <adminhtml>
    <menu>
      <cms translate="title" module="cms">
        <depends><module>HideMe</module></depends>
      </cms>
    </menu>
  </adminhtml>
  

  Alan Storm : Your science impresses me! Will depends work like that in other areas of the config file? I'd only even seen it used to ensure correct module loading order.

  Scott Moorhouse : It seems to be only for initializing Magento's modules (as you stated) and building the adminhtml menu. Module dependencies seem to be checked in these classes: Mage_Adminhtml_Block_Page_Menu Mage_Adminhtml_Model_Config Mage_Adminhtml_Model_System_Config_Source_Admin_Page Mage_Api_Model_Config Mage_Core_Model_Config