Sentences with phrase «about as irrelevant»

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Responding with an excuse or dismissing the feedback as irrelevant or incorrect will foster beliefs about that leader's willingness to change.

This is why the scammers don't bother to go into too much detail about the robot; ultimately its performance is irrelevant as the scammers have already gotten paid before you have even started using the robot.

They really don't — the concept of somebody saving their lives from a crucified execution occurring 2,000 years ago is appropriately distant and irrelevant to them, because the vast majority of believers put as much thought and effort into what they believe about their religion as WHY they believe what they believe about their religion.

The best part about living in a secular country is that religious opinions of marriage are irrelevant to the legal definition as «Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.»

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

That is to say, any attempt to cover - up something about the situation would have seemed sort of irrelevant to me since I never really saw the success or failure of the emerging movement as particularly hinging on people like Tony in the first place.

All this, which is only a part of what ought to be said about the Atonement, is not irrelevant to our discussion; for like Professor MacKinnon, though in a rather different way, I want to lay the greatest emphasis on the decisiveness and uniqueness of the Cross and the Resurrection In both these acts of God, however, I find no inconsistency between their decisiveness and «objectivity» and the fact that they are directed towards men: the former as conveying to them the divine acceptance which is also judgement, the latter by bringing to them, in the Easter experiences, the active presence of the living Lord.

It's an irrational anger, expressing itself in such irrelevant things as holding me responsible for a printer's error about Paulus's birthday in the first copies off the press.

Or more precisely, he is willing to regard the bulk of his book as «irrelevant» to his thesis that there is something about Christianity as practiced today that is inherently off - putting to masculine men, and so won't bother to defend it.

The study also found that students are significantly less cynical about politics and government than their elders; they simply tend to view politics as irrelevant to their lives and to the issues they care about.

Like it or not, men view the church as irrelevant because much of what concerns men is either not addressed or when it is talked about it is done so in a feminine manner.

They may tell us that in dealing with such phenomena as «religiosity» or «humanism» it is irrelevant and out of order to inquire about the «something» that lies behind them, and thereby protest against the conclusion that the only answer to all ultimate questions is the Nihil.

Their desire to accommodate Christian symbols to the reigning paradigms of knowledge is so great that questions about the descriptive power of those symbols are often dismissed as fruitless or irrelevant.

This does not make the Bible irrelevant, for what may be most relevant is not a Bible verse about womanhood or divorce but Paul's powerful analysis of the self in conflict as found in Romans 7.

In the organic responses of the adverbial level, selective processes operate according to what is relevant to the fulfilment of the organism as a whole.12 At the same time, although some selectivity may occur, adverbial responses tend to take the character of «total assertions» of the whole organism about the whole object it confronts.13 At the accusative level, or level of conscious symbolization, whole masses of irrelevant detail are excluded according to some principle of relevance operating in consciousness at the time.

This is why we can not follow certain existentialist writers in speaking about human history as if it were being played out against a background of irrelevant natural recurrence.

Far from indicating effete and irrelevant erudition, the capacity to talk about Jane Austen or T.S. Eliot or James Joyce was once seen as clear indication of a highly developed and socially relevant mind.

Even if this pope's opinions about suffering are as well - developed as you think they are he's irrelevant to me.

The other teams» failures is absolutely irrelevant for us, as it doesn't change jack sh!t about the state our club is in.

As are the irrelevant statements about City and United playing before us next weekend.

Frankly, I really don't care about your opinion of me... it is IRRELEVANT as is whether you are «shocked».

This philosophy or belief is exactly why I picked you up on your — as I thought - «racist» comment about Brits not liking or rating Iwobi as he is not British but Nigerian, as if either of these things irrelevant matter one jot.

Both are irrelevant seeing as we play that weird old 4 -1-1-3-1 that is about as gimped as you get when trying to put it accurately on a position board.

Many dismiss them as irrelevant, pointless identifiers, but it's clear that a number of the players genuinely care about the one they wear.

I think Greg did a wonderful, open - minded, genuine thing and I respect the hell out of the fact that he kept coming back to this blog, updating people as to the progress of the event, taking questions to pass along, being open to having information about Nestle's actions provided to him in order to educate him because he was open to being educated, and even taking more than his share of condescension directly or indirectly from people on the previous thread about things as irrelevant as his sense of humour.

That might be the first place I breastfeed in public as we asked questions, I was sitting there waiting and like I don't know why, though they must be ready to go [laughs] and so am sitting there and I had my baby and was he probably 5 weeks old and in my head I was like saying, «I should have been here sooner, I should have been here sooner», [laughs] which is irrelevant but that what's goes through your head and then I was like I guess I just do it and it was the meanest thing because I'm sitting on the floor with my baby and I didn't have to use the cover and I was just so «Oh, you just have to do it like in a room full of women» and everybody is in just as uncomfortable and everybody is trying to make this dance work and trying to get a rhythm and they needed this thing to be able to do and I would imagine for me it was a good transition to being in publicand not to worry about the cover but also for women like ok, this is your group for example.

«And as a way to talk about a democratic system that feels increasingly irrelevant - who it's accessible to, who it's open to, how fair it is - he's an enjoyably bizarre British way into it, I think.»

On the Labour side this is reflected in viewing the Lib Dems and other parties as irrelevant while in other parties its replicated in fantastical dreaming about replacing Labour (unlikely in our electoral system).

Apart from the irrelevant commentary and over-simplifications (which are real and not mere formulations problems), you say nothing of the practical side of things, which is what this question is about (as opposed to generalities regarding the status of the TRNC which are well known to the OP as s / he told you already).

Is there any evidence of pre-booked TV studios or as with the comments about expelling the Scottish Labour Party, do we need to take it that evidence of the allegation is irrelevant and we simply go into fantasy land?

«We want to make them meaningful,» Weisbrod said about the budget proposals, «They have been seen as irrelevant until now.»

Unless they are arguing that actual BAU emissions will be so low as to prevent CO2 from any further significant build up (or at least stay under a doubling), this is a detail entirely irrelevant to climate science, and almost entirely irrelevant to the question about «reasonable anticipation of endangerment».

Many readers will be aware that three scientists (two of which are contributors to this site, Michael Mann and Ray Bradley) have received letters from Representative Joe Barton (Texas), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee specifically requesting information about their work on the «hockey stick» papers (Mann et al (1998) and Mann et al (1999)-RRB- as well as an enormous amount of irrelevant material not connected to these studies.

Similarly, many studies that attempt to examine the co-variability between Earth's energy budget and temperature (such as in many of the pieces here at RC concerning the Spencer and Lindzen literature) are only as good as the assumptions made about base state of the atmosphere relative to which changes are measured, the «forcing» that is supposedly driving the changes (which are often just things like ENSO, and are irrelevant to radiative - induced changes that will be important for the future), and are limited by short and discontinuous data records.

The brand is all about wild, playful and irrelevant, and I loooove the vibe that reflects on this swimsuit because I myself can totally relate to as I describe who I am!

Don't include a lot of irrelevant points, but do make a point to talk about yourself in enough details so that like - minded people on the same online dating website will want to learn more information as they become intrigued by you.

If we were only to use current society as the form to examine our own lives, the vast body of cinema that has gone before would be immediately irrelevant, and did I hear someone say something about the relevance of gay cowboys in Wyoming in the 50s?

I'm not worried about this, because it is utterly irrelevant as to how the ending plays.

by Walter Chaw As a huge admirer of John Sayles's middle - period body of work — a period marked by such pictures as Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star (still my pick for the best American film of the Nineties)-- it pains me to look at something like Honeydripper and recognize in it everything I like about Sayles side - by - side with everything that's fast making him irrelevanAs a huge admirer of John Sayles's middle - period body of work — a period marked by such pictures as Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star (still my pick for the best American film of the Nineties)-- it pains me to look at something like Honeydripper and recognize in it everything I like about Sayles side - by - side with everything that's fast making him irrelevanas Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star (still my pick for the best American film of the Nineties)-- it pains me to look at something like Honeydripper and recognize in it everything I like about Sayles side - by - side with everything that's fast making him irrelevant.

Each year is treated as a fresh start, and even if information about prior performance is available, it may be seen as largely irrelevant to the task at hand.

On the other hand, proponents of the view that history is about facts and dates would regard essay - based tests as deeply flawed, since they assess students» writing and linguistic skills as well as historical knowledge (what is sometimes called «construct - irrelevant variance»).

Instead of seeing tests as irrelevant or a waste of time, as some parents complain, tests will become a tool to learn more about a student's progress.

Excitement, fun factor, excellence and abilities of a car are NOT defined by something so irrelevant for car enthusiasts as the lap times... I strongly recommend you to find a better job so you can afford a supercar so you can get an idea of what those cars are really all about.

This is mostly irrelevant though, because the Gymkhana Fiesta rarely spends much time using this titanic power to move forwards... as I am not about to demonstrate.

This was reflected in the Institute study as well, which found that lane departure warning would be irrelevant to about 97 percent of police - reported crashes.

True, when seeking a traditional publishing book deal or agent representation for an as yet unpublished book, the questions about current sales are irrelevant.

Mr. Daniels, here's how I know that you both don't know the book industry very well, and haven't even bothered to read this (or any other) discussion thread on the topic: while your analysis about real costs probably seemed clever and on point, it is in fact irrelevant because, as has been pointed out several times, minimum wage workers are not the market for books.

Since I have never borrowed $ to anyone, seems as though the rest of my story is irrelevant... Penalized for being financially healthy and responsible, how about that!!!

This means that getting upset about being wrong about any one trade is both irrelevant as well as counter-productive to making money in the markets.

Past trades are irrelevant except as the affect others» decisions about what prices are acceptable, and one weird trade has no effect on that.