Sentences with phrase «insignificance of»

Samsung has got the support of many high - tech firms because «unapportioned infringer's profits, regardless of the potential insignificance of a design patent infringement, would have terrible consequences in some fields,» he pointed out.

It is hard to know which is greater: contrarians» overstatement of the flaws in the historical temperature reconstruction from 1998 by Michael E. Mann and his colleagues or the ultimate insignificance of their argument to the case for climate change.

So to argue for the insignificance of the thermosphere to radiative balance it is not sufficient to point to its small mass and number of molecules — one must accompany this with physics showing for instance the mean free path of photons between interactions with air molecules to be sufficiently long that the thermosphere will not significantly affect outgoing flux.

Some illustrate the insignificance of the density issue by putting everyone in a known region.

During the Song dynasty, Chinese landscape painting developed a strong connection with Taoist philosophy, seeking to emphasize the insignificance of a single human in the vast eternity of the universe.

Rendered in stainless steel and black gloss paint, Fiona Banner's Full Stops Scrift and Century Gothic investigate the supposed immateriality or insignificance of this mark.

... The magnificence of their collective accomplishments and the insignificance of the individual component are unmistakable.

The wanderer's stance suggests dominion over the landscape, but also the insignificance of the individual within it.

Thiebaud's paintings, like good novels, use telling details to draw us in, so as to obliquely convey some harsh intimations of aimlessness and loss, of the insignificance of human wishes.

The inclusion of a small hut in the composition's lower right only serves to enhance the monumentality of — and to highlight the insignificance of humanity within — this vast geologic landscape.

Going beyond the insignificance of the monochrome.

Even the ones that say they do typically are just trying to counter the growing insignificance of the xbox franchise.

However, the argument completely ignores the incredible financial insignificance of the horse slaughter industry.

It was one of those dewy, clear, starry nights, oppressing our spirit, crushing our pride, by the brilliant evidence of the awful loneliness, of the hopeless obscure insignificance of our globe lost in the splendid revelation of a glittering, soulless universe.

While these activities do already exist in many schools, the teachable moments implicit in these activities are generally lost to the insignificance of the decisions that are to be made.

«Our teachers feel strongly that this type of evaluative tool is unfair based on the abundance of problems with the exam, the content, and the statistical insignificance of the students» scores,» she says.

If the Philadelphia school district cares only about reading results, and places no weight on math results, our data could be used to support the policy choice that was made, provided no attention is paid to the statistical insignificance of the reading finding.

Unfortunately, through melodramatic editing and poor choices involving the inclusion of cheap thrills, Europa Report looses its focus on a pertinent topic surrounding scientific discovery today: the insignificance of human life compared to the discovery of the cosmos.

It is by no means perfect; regardless of the insignificance of the characters, wooden acting is still wooden acting, and some of the early nods to the Fukushima disaster and 2011's tsunami seem a touch tacked on, but once the story gets going and the monsters come out, the film settles into a refreshing and thoroughly entertaining romp.

As a teenager, I saw Pale Blue Dot, a photo of Earth taken by Voyager I that led astronomer Carl Sagan to reflect on the insignificance of man in the universe.

The gilded cathedrals of old were gone — ripped down or buried under layers of soot — and in their stead rose hulking cement fortresses whose towering porticos paid architectural tribute to the insignificance of the individual in the one - party state.

He fortifies himself by a false and hasty conception of the insignificance of his guilt.

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.

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

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

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

I think people should embrace the overall insignificance of our existence here, since that makes the wonder of our existence in this cosmic chaos so fascinating.

«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.

Not exact matches

His campaign spokesman downplayed concerns that some of the Tories» own elected MLAs might not join Kenney's United Conservatives by suggesting their relative insignificance in a party with tens of thousands of members.

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.

It's alot easier to make yourself «God of your life» than to open your eyes, seek answers and admit your insignificance.

They offer an alternative to death, injustice, helplessness, insignificance, the loss of loved ones, and so on.

Confronted with this awesome display of the majesty and wisdom of God, and suddenly aware of his own insignificance and ignorance, Job backs down:

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.

There may be suprahuman wisdom, and we might well assume an attitude of wholesome humility when we reflect upon our relative insignificance.

A life that endures forever beyond this mortal one cheapens what it means to be physically alive to the point of insignificance.

Man, some people are so scared of our mortality and insignificance in the universe, that they will cling to anything to try to prove that their «God» exists, even if it makes no sense at all.

Any Catholic who rejects Catholic teaching, or who technically accepts it but minimizes it to the point of insignificance, is not a «moderate» Catholic but a dissenter, or one seeking approval from the world (a temptation Our Lord warns against)-- and should be identified as such.

The genius of AA is not so much in its ability to help its members connect to some sense of a higher power that will help them succeed and overcome their problems, as it is in its ability to thoroughly convince each member of his or her own insignificance, thus rendering them vulnerable, helpless, and willing to «turn their lives over» to something... anything... other than their own power.

Unless it extends to «tickled with feathers», the «degree» of punishment seems dwarfed to insignificance by the length of the sentence.

It is simply to say that, as I confront the meaning of my life, all this social world fades away to insignificance.

I'm sorry to inform you of your insignificance, but the universe isn't aware of your religion, doesn't care, and won't notice when you and it are gone.

It produced in Hindus the feeling that «in an age of competitive politics» in which power - sharing is «determined by numbers», conversion would reduce them to insignificance.

Pastor Sharon Huey talks of Grace's catechumenate as preparation for taking something like a «vow of insignificance.»

We feel something of the «Power» of the Lord of the World which corresponds to man's feeling of his own lowliness, insignificance, and finitude.

Does this reduce the sin, error, darkness and danger of eternal perdition in the world to insignificance?

They sneer and scoff at all the ignorant masses who «live lives of emptiness and insignificance.»

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

Also, in such a «family - type» gathering, so many of these questions that have plagued and split the church just fade away into insignificance.

The belief that our liberties and capabilities are the gift of a personal God has faded almost into insignificance, but now we have a new foundation — in a way both natural and socially constructed — for personal responsibility to other persons.