Sentences with phrase «as germane»

That lesson is just as germane for those looking to sell a home.

Michael Palin asked that question nearly 40 years ago on «Monty Python's Flying Circus,» and it's as germane as ever in considering the merits and drawbacks to blogging, and particularly the comment strings following posts.

These experts» comments were as germane to US and other nations» authors and agents as they were to UK pros.

The wrong prince will soon be crowned king, unless Edward can produce the Great Seal of England in time to prove his right to the throne.In The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain sheds satiric light on class distinctions, personal identity, and power dynamics that seem as germane today as ever before.Revised edition: Previously published as The Prince and the Pauper, this edition of The Prince and the Pauper (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions...

Exactly what the Morning Star symposium questioner had in mind I am not sure, but his question was as germane as it was unanticipated.

Not exact matches

These can be my own articles or blog posts or those of others, as long as they are germane.

In recent weeks, for instance, on another issue germane to his appeal to his base — immigration — the White House was unwilling to irritate the base and worked to scuttle a bipartisan Senate compromise that would have shielded hundreds of thousands of people who had been brought to the US illegally as kids in return for border wall funding.

Like me, he views such concerns as highly germane to this misguided legislation: «When banks fail, they usually fail in a correlated way, because they are chasing the same strategies and ideas.

2) it's not isolated to China (though many economists see China as the great industrial hub of the next century — so it is certainly a germane point).

What is in the masters interest, the value of the slave as an asset or the master being sideways with his god are not germane to the discussion.

The ethical issues that have become important as a result of the ecological movement have been germane to Whiteheadian thinking all along.

Perception is a complex process of interpretation of «data from the real world» as well as of «proposals» about the past, actual world germane to its possible future states.

You somehow rationalize setting aside the enslavement of Africans as not germane to the discussion.

This is why «liberty» so construed by the Evangelists of the Sexual Revolution is so emptied of its richness as an ideal so germane to Ordered Liberty.

They viewed theology as either a highly personal, individualized matter or as an essentially academic discipline conducted in universities and seminaries, something not germane to the life of the church or to personal faith.

As the author is acutely aware, much that is germane to the story, from the Christian perspective, is not accessible to the historian.

Now, as for «slinging insults», in what way were you insulted by my words, and how is that even germane to the present dialogue?

Another, particularly germane this time of year, is when it seems as though recent meals have been so festive that one's digestive system cries for a simple combination of chlorophyll, protein, and little else.

As Congressman Porter Hardy Jr., a Virginia Democrat heading the subcommittee, commented succinctly at one germane point: «It seems to me the whole thing is a little bit cockeyed.»

It's not necessarily germane to the question, but did offer some context as to where the Tea Party sits on the US political spectrum.

In his welcome address, the Commissioner of Police, Lagos State Police command, Imohimi Edgal stated that the book could not have been written at a better time than now, describing the title as apt and germane to national discourse.

@agc It is a true fact and as I note in the preface, just to list some of the more germane facts alone is a big task, and analyzing the economic consequences caused by those facts is an epic task beyond the scope of any one answer.

«Some of the issues raised in the said memo are germane and may be part of things we will be discussing as time goes on.»

Finn's observations also raise issues particularly germane to the 2015 General Election: that an unintended net Coalition effect is the genuine emergence of four - party politics at Westminster (at that stage envisaged as being Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP).

The five bidders for the fraught Aqueduct race track contract will have the right to black out information from documents germane to the deal, before they're made available to the public tomorrow, as per Governor David Paterson's approval.

05-10-13... Vermont Lt. Governor Phil Scott ruled an amendment on the issue of allowing child care workers to unionize as not germane to an education bill and an effort to overrule that decision failed to get the required three - quarters majority.

«The marked increase in its prevalence as reported in the present study is likely germane to the growing decriminalization of marijuana,» noted Ms. Brady.

Sometimes ruefully transmitted by him as the knowledge that life is an ordeal to be endured, this seasoning is germane to his mature persona, and especially his formidable performances in Driving Miss Daisy, Glory, Eastwood's Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar Baby (2004), Frank Darabont's The Shawshank Redemption (1994), David Fincher's Se7en (1995), Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997), and Ben Affleck's Gone Baby Gone (2007).

Simply stated, according to the standard notice the unions must send to fee - payers each year, the fee «shall cover the cost of negotiations, contract administration, and other activities of an employee organization that are germane to its function as the exclusive representative.»

As Ryan and the GSE look for fresh, far - reaching ways to close the opportunity gap for young Americans, Five Miles Away, A World Apart will be germane, even though integration is not a priority in education for either the Democratic or Republican parties.

This discovery is especially germane for teacher education programs, as it suggests that simply addressing teacher technology standards in preservice teacher education may not be sufficient for preparing future educators to implement technology effectively in their classrooms.

While not directly germane to this agenda, it is worth noting that in all of these efforts, as well as others not directly related to teacher learning (see Pearson, Spalding, & Myers, 1998), discussions of assessment tools lead almost inevitably to discussions of curriculum and teaching.

All this is germane, because Kindle is a device that is sold (at $ 349, I think) as a device that can read to you or anyone, or the public, whatever.

I actually didn't think about it at all as it didn't seem all that germane to the story.

Their life stories are the perfect impetus for discussion on a host of important historical themes germane to the 1950s, such as gender roles, racial prejudice and segregation, and scientific exploration.

She also can speak, herself, of course, she points out, as agent for many authors with experience germane to the conversation.

So until Amazon starts using open, closed, concealed, and revealed as keywords, those aren't really germane to the discussion.

Germane to the organization of Inverted Utopias is a rejection of the inferior role that has frequently been accorded to Latin American art, as well as an attempt to divorce the public from prejudices concerning art from this part of the world.

But her choices as a woman and as an artist were germane to her art and anything but neutral.»

It demands a commitment from the viewer as well as from the artist in an ongoing engagement, so I think the idea of trend is maybe not germane to this discussion.

We might read it as sophistication, as indifference or as potentially self - defeating calculation - an uncertainty germane to the art world's present moment of cynicism and confusion about what remains worth doing and why.

This is particularly germane this week, as a couple thousand scientists and others focused on polar change have gathered in Montreal for a large conference (Twitter feed here) reviewing the enormous body of work produced under the recent International Polar Year initiative.

But that would have presumed that Schieffer differed from Candy Crowley, the previous moderator, who revealed, after the fact, that she saw global warming as a second - tier issue germane only to «all you climate change people.»

As I was interested when molecules achieved the higher energy states that comes with more greenhouse gas molecules — the energy states in which greenhouse gas molecules entered the atmosphere seemed germane.

It may or may not germane, but as I've noted at CA, Gavin has posted that «the first comment posted on this subject was» a username link in a thread on CA.

I am going to repeat a comment I made in earlier thread as it seems more germane here and provides additional evidence about the reluctance of climate scientist to speak freely.

Ben, please delete this as you see fit, for it's not, obviously, germane but I can't help it.

Steve: the temperature data issues are not really relevant to paleoclimate calibration as the uncertainties and issues are not germane.

Judging by all past records including their generous attitude to BEST, I think all authors will cope with criticism as scientists should — by acknowledging it when it's correct and germane to the conclusions.

This could have been accomplished by «sanitizing» Prall's list, removing the germane content and isolating it from what people perceive as politically charged but is there much doubt that the same objections would have been raised, seeing as how the ultimate provenance of the data would still need to be indentified?