Sentences with phrase «became as irrelevant»

In a flash, the deals became as irrelevant as a piece of paper that drifted across the sidewalk in front of her.

I wondered aloud if I had become as irrelevant as Anna Kournikova or Notre Dame football?

I come from an even smaller country, and believe me you don't want Scottish culture to become as irrelevant as the Welsh Eisteddfod.

Law Societies will need to change to allow innovation — and even promote and initiate it — in order to make legal services affordable, or they will become as irrelevant as the proverbial buggy - whip maker.

Eliminate e-voting, replace it with paper only, observable / transparent hand - counts, and the e-voting fraudsters will become as irrelevant as bootleggers after the repeal of Prohibition.

Therefore, if lawyers don't learn to adapt to the current technological shift, legal services will become as irrelevant as the horseshoe industry after the invention of the automobile.

Not exact matches

As a VC if you don't do this you'll soon become irrelevant.

If there is no return, they will go elsewhere and we will become less relevant (or worse, totally irrelevant... you might as well be invisible).

The political rhetoric that floods our media and forces its ugly face in our lives daily becomes irrelevant as people work in teams to build products and services.

Even the seemingly irrelevant classes like pumpkin carving are valuable to the company, as employees become better overall learners, which dramatically boosts the company's intellectual capital.

And as the reality of product development and customer input collide, the facts change so rapidly that the original well - thought - out product plan becomes irrelevant.

Our ability to tune out the irrelevant is reduced, and thus do we become more easily distracted as the years pass by.

And it's important to note that this doesn't mean that the Quick Ratio becomes irrelevant as companies scale.

In the first place, as the Fed scales back on ON - RRP and IOER, by allowing the rates paid through these arrangements to decline relative to short - term Treasury rates, its administered rates will become increasingly irrelevant.

Now they're in the majority, they've proceeded to make most of them just as irrelevant as Parliament itself has become.

As security laws abroad are rehashed to be more conducive to equity crowdfunding — which I believe will happen in an accelerated, if not domino, fashion after the action unfolds in the U.S. — internationally geography will become increasingly irrelevant.

Interestingly, when risk is extremely high, as it is with Lotto Shares, the level of interest rates essentially becomes irrelevant.

When Whitehead describes the approach to intellectuality as a gain in the power of abstraction, so that «the irrelevant multiplicity is eliminated, and emphasis is laid on the elements of systematic order in the actual world» (PR 388), we take this to mean that mentality becomes habitually effective when its potentially anarchic initiatives are both nourished and preserved at lower, more reiterative levels of conceptual functioning.

Even though he says that the ancients held together the spiritual and the material better than we do, he insists that «cosmology can not become ontology» and that the «latest developments in speculative cosmology» are «quite simply irrelevant» as «interventions in philosophical debates.»

As time goes by, certain expressions or formulations become irrelevant or even misleading.

Bill Nye never became irrelevant and has been working to increase kid's knowledge of science for decades unlike organized religion which is attempting to dumb down our children so they can be fooled into repeating the same mistakes as their parents, those of prejudice, exclusivity, hate, greed and ignorance.

Mystics of all faiths point us to the true place of meeting which is in the presence of God, where comparisons become if not odious at least irrelevant, as the mystics sense the Divine Mystery, who is both the source and sustainer of all life and the most intimate presence in the heart and life of the believer.

Proclaimed as the chief exemplification of the potentiality of human life lived in utter obedience to God, the life and resurrection of Jesus could become meaningful for some who find them utterly irrelevant when proclaimed as unique acts of God.

If all such historical conditions, on the other hand, can be systematically ignored as irrelevant, it becomes highly problematic on what grounds we award the title of Christ to Jesus and yet continue to withhold it from Socrates or from Gautama.

In this context Hans Urs Von Balthasar observed that since the Council the Church has become more than ever a male institution, which without the Marian dimension threatens to become inhuman and irrelevant.9 It is essential that we rediscover the feminine, Marian dimension of the Church because viewing the Church as a mere organisational or institutional entity not only impoverishes her from within but also «severely diminishes her authentic religious appeal and misleads women who are seeking a legitimate and fruitful role».10 The loss of this feminine dimension of the Church gives rise to a false feminism in the Church - one which expresses itself in appeals for the ordination of woman.

If it is not regularly recast, the «old world» becomes disengaged from experience so that it either must live in protected, uncritical space (where it will be irrelevant), or it will be jettisoned as dead.

This occasion is related to other occasions only at its initiation (as prehender) and at its consummation (as datum for prehension) Hence, in principle, its own inner process of becoming is irrelevant to its observable relations.

In a very fast - paced urban environment, foresight and planning for the future — as opposed to reaction — do not become irrelevant.

Faculty resistance has lately broken out, since, as one professor put it, «prayer has become a symbol of division and exclusion for those who feel, some for secular and others for reasons of religious integrity, that prayer imposes a set of beliefs on them which they do not share and which are irrelevant to the academic mission of this college.»

Once, however, God is conceived as exerting his power directly, or by means of heavenly creatures wholly subservient to his will, the actual deployment of historical forces becomes irrelevant to the realization of divine purposes.

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The causal traces of the past become least determinate upon us, and anticipation of all but the immediate future becomes irrelevant as every moment is endowed with an integrity of its own.

They know that when the methods do not change and adapt, the church becomes irrelevant, dragging the message of the gospel down as well.

«The Australian market tends to look at bordeaux as if it is becoming irrelevant,» Caillard says.

Where an otherwise irrelevant character makes for good debate, so the news entertainment industry frames his every move as significant, and soon this irrelevant character has been news for long enough that eventually he does do something noteworthy, and he becomes the biggest story in America.

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In Guardiola's risk assessment, the league is as good as won, so the United game has become nothing less than an irrelevant distraction in the midst of six crucial days between Wednesday's first - leg at Anfield and next Tuesday's return game at the Etihad.

Still, society understands and expects marriage, despite the fact that some see it as becoming more irrelevant at the same time same - sex couples are continuin fighting for the right to have it.

Again, I hope he gets his wish, cause then the Republicans would become an irrelevant minority in the State Senate as well as they lost seats in Western Long Island and what little they have left in Brooklyn, and the Grisanti seat, which would revert back to the Dems.

That is why the Libdems are being relentlessly squeezed - as the Conservatives become more and more electable, Libdems are irrelevant to the real political battle.

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Furthermore, these studies are irrelevant to our discussion that ought to be comparing, as much as possible, a very low carb, high (healthy, not corn) fat and moderate protein diet in which the participants had enough time to become adapted, to a higher carb diet.

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 you were to look at dating as a user journey, you could say that Happy Couple addresses users» needs at a point where other dating apps stop or become irrelevant.

Sites with a very long process of matching through a strict interviewing process such as eHarmony are good in theory, but I think that all the questions in the world become totally irrelevant in the face of bad chemistry, and a match on paper is no guarantee of a match made in heaven in reality.

It should be noted that as this is a live webcam website, distance and location becomes irrelevant when it comes to cyber sex, flirting or swapping emails.

As he continued to grow smaller and smaller, he passed through the microverse, where — in original Ant - Man Hank Pym's own words — «all concepts of time and space become irrelevant.»

The exchange also creates some necessary conflict, as a townies vs. frat boys war emerges and these grown ups have to come to terms with the fact that they're becoming over the hill and irrelevant.

Reeling from the discovery that he's becoming irrelevant, Dickens (Dan Stevens) finds himself suffering from mighty writer's block as he looks for inspiration to break his cold streak.

The first Ant - Man film explored the concept of the Quantum Realm, described as «a reality where all concepts of time and space become irrelevant.»