Sentences with word «insignificance»

Their unofficial policy of priests vs, altar boys pales into insignificance when compared to their offcial policies of charging patients around $ 50.00 for an asprin.

«Eighty - five to 90 percent of today's classifieds will be gone till the end of 2014 and never come back because of the threshold of insignificance of classifieds marketplaces in newspapers,» he told me this week.

However, this paled into insignificance in comparison to this morning's venture, so we took it in our stride.

Yet the Argentine has made it pretty clear he regards the FA Cup and Carabao Cup as second - tier trophies which pale into insignificance when compared to the Premier League and Champions League.

But even if the counsellors strayed from support to advocating, this effort pales into insignificance compared with the proselytizing of organized religion.

But the scale and nature of it pales into insignificance by comparison with what women receive.

Stepping into any of her mirrored rooms, I can instantly feel Kusama's intention to make me ponder on my own insignificance in vast universe she created with lights and illusion.

Jonathan Parker's work explores the human scale of insignificance with lyrical references to the mythology of empire, the waterman's craft and the act of crossing the Thames.

Despite assertions by climate scientists of the supposed statistical insignificance of the divergence, in fact, it is, so to speak, unprecedented: there is no corresponding period in which models ran hot for such an extended period.

Thus the justice that faith demands necessarily implies the unsurpassable justice of God, who not only redeems all others from insignificance by accepting them without condition into the divine life itself, but also creates the optimal conditions of creaturely action, thereby doing all that could possibly be done in the interests of all others except what they must each do for themselves and for one another if it is ever to be done at all.

It is where you realize the supreme importance and the utter insignificance of what you are doing.

Compounding this challenge is our sense of insignificance as individuals in a world of 6.7 billion people.

Just as Life itself seems to fade into insignificance within the sidereal immensities known to astronomy, so does the happy simplicity which seemed to indicate a steady rise of consciousness from the lower animals to Man lose distinctness in the extraordinary diversity and profusion of living forms now known to biology.

They did later applaud the superstar midfielder but Gerrard blasted the Blues faithful afterward saying they paled into insignificance next to his own supporters.

We can hardly wonder, in the circumstances, that agnostics such as Sir James Jeans and Marcel Boll, and even convinced believers like Guardini, have uttered expressions of amazement (tinged with heroic pessimism or triumphant detachment) at the apparent insignificance of the phenomenon of Life in terms of the cosmos — a little mould on a grain of dust.

City sewers «The Thames bridges sink into comparative insignificance when compared with the great metropolitan drainage works executed during the last few years.

The result of which is that the panel had to reconsider its finding about insignificance.

Nonetheless, the whole movie intends to show the ultimate insignificance of human beings no matter how much they may demonstrate individual heroic virtue.

The evenly spaced stripes will leave you wondering if it's cream on navy or navy on cream until you slip into an existential crisis about our grand insignificance in the universe.

The Marxist Social Democratic Federation disaffiliated from the LRC in 1901 and disappeared into insignificance while its leader, Henry Hyndman, ended up backing World War I.

According to her, the attack by the terrorists was a desperate attempt to continue to remain relevant using propaganda as the last tool after troops decimated them into near insignificance and being used as a shield by enemies of Nigeria who wanted to see the country fail.

If you wanted a life of quiet insignificance you should have chosen to be a hedge fund manager.

All of that, though, pales into insignificance alongside the car's sheer composure, sophistication and maturity of the powertrain, the ride and the handling.

In psychological terms his concept of faith means: if you completely submit, if you accept your individual insignificance, then the all - powerful God may be willing to love you and save you.

No branch of science proclaims God's greatness and man's insignificance more eloquently than astronomy.

Weapon modifiers, though probably technically capable of multiplying the number of weapons in the game tenfold, turn out to be stat tweaks of such insignificance that you could safely ignore them completely.

If this maturing does not occur, four types of nonproductive life - orientations (and character structures) develop in the attempt by persons to defend themselves from feelings of existential insignificance and aloneness.

It paled — as did all else — into insignificance before the one thing that genuinely mattered.

Yet even at the extremity of the social order, he gave a sense of renewed importance and individuality to the most forlorn insignificance.

By the time the next election cycle rolls around, your influence will have slipped even further towards complete insignificance where it belongs.

Socrates, it's true, said that philosophy is learning how to die, which seems to mean using science to come to terms with one's own ephemeral insignificance.

Evil is blind to its own weakness and possesses little imagination — Sauron's inability to see the Hobbits wandering into the heart of his lands, because of their very insignificance — it takes Gandalf in his goodness to see the important part the hobbits will play in world history.

Numerical insignificance inevitably invests Protestant church life with a minority mentality [May 12, 1954].

The events that make up world process may be rescued from seeming oblivion and insignificance without corresponding to any deterministic conception of a goal for cosmic becoming.

Pantheism is the theology that gives us solace by according divinity to our experiences of personal insignificance.

Maybe even the most remarkable gesture these days is fated to fadeinto insignificance, remembered as just another handshake or smile.

In fact Iraq, once an Asian sports force that sent 46 athletes to the 1980 Summer Olympics, now rivals Liechtenstein in terms of athletic insignificance.

But the news story would have faded into insignificance much more quickly had it not been for the outspoken criticisms of Ken Clarke.

William Hague said the row paled into insignificance given his duties as foreign secretary.

However the intervention may pale into insignificance after Brexiteers won an important battle to reveal the true number of European migrants working in Britain.

Sibert noted that before the extinction event, ray - finned fishes existed in a state of relative ecological insignificance, just like mammals on land.

Blunt's Evelyn Abbott and son Marcus (Noah Jupe) are the lesser half insignificance but are guaranteed to be favored by viewers.

But great as these roles are, they do pale into insignificance somewhat when compared to McDormand's tour de force — being married to the (probably) Zodiac!