Sentences with phrase «irrelevance at»

It's striking to see these minimal compositions in light of Hafif's ultimate commitment to the severe denial of any image in her monochromes, a move that was particularly audacious given proclamations of painting's historical irrelevance at the time.

Without peaceful public acceptance of their decisions, courts risk irrelevance at best and social chaos at worst.»

Not exact matches

At a smaller scale, the economists» praise of what they call «markets» ignores the near irrelevance of the concept to the actual organisation of production, distribution or labour.

When Whitehead says an actual entity embraces the diversities of the whole universe and «brings them into is own unity of feeling under gradations of relevance and of irrelevance» (Religion 108), he should be referring to the unity (wholeness) required to establish an actuality at transition, but is likely expressing his belief the many grow together into a unity (whole) during concrescence.

The freedom of religion was purchased at the price of agreeing to the public irrelevance of religion.

Thanks to John Paul II's refusal to concede the Holy See's irrelevance in accordance with the prepared media script, the unavoidable moral core of the population argument was forced onto center stage at Cairo.

, we ignore this cultural behemoth at the peril of our own irrelevance.

... Demythologizing which fails to come to terms with the ultimate metaphysical - cosmological dualism expressed in the mythology, and in fact at the root, of all Western religious thinking, is not seriously facing up to the problem of irrelevance of the Christian church in contemporary life.»

If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material.

My initial reaction to Edmund Waldstein's valuable review of Before Church and State was to marvel at the bold abstractness of his proposal, its proud irrelevance to the practical political problems we face today.

Her home discussions while growing up set a standard that was hard to match afterward; the church leaders that she knew at Heath were more interesting than those she met afterward: she agrees with her father that the generation that succeeded him fled into the «cellars of irrelevance.»

For how can the indispensable historicity of Jesus be affirmed, while at the same time maintaining the irrelevance of what a historical encounter with him would mean, once this has become a real possibility due to the rise of modern historiography?

the arts may provide the day - by - day confirmation of Creation's finger still at work in the lives and affairs of men... the church., if it wants to keep in touch with the Creator, must provide a home for all that is and all who are created, lest the church itself wither and drift into irrelevance.

Embarrassed at its cultural «irrelevance,» the church has sought to generalize its specific story into vague consensus values, to translate its concrete doctrines into something as airy as Percy's reverential regard for human life.

Pires and his few thinkalikes will be forgotten and a total irrelevance when very soon now, Wenger is sacked, thus pushing them into mourning and weeping at his sorrowful picture still hanging on their walls.

They have had a couple down years and look to be at a pivotal point — will they get strong again or will they go back to irrelevance?

Momentum and confidence are again at stake with League points a bit of an irrelevance.

The hard work was done three weeks ago in Switzerland with a swaggering and stylish 4 - 0 victory that made the second leg at the Etihad Stadium a virtual irrelevance.

The business secretary's criticisms of «dog - whistle politics» were not targeted at backbench irrelevances.

And it's likely the number of happy campers will further decline at the 2016 Holyrood election where the argument that voting Labour will stop the Tories is an irrelevance.

But the older sites» current cultural and technological irrelevance hints at the ephemeral nature of internet domination: in an environment as tumultuous as this one and as driven by the fickle human desire for the new and shiny, no hegemony is eternal.

Pulling at straws while YOUR Dumbocrat Party COLLAPSES into irrelevance.

Or at least wanted to know if he had plans for a new job next week «when your party becomes an irrelevance».

I'm enough of a movement veteran that these things just flowed by me at the time, but in retrospect they seem the worst sort of hectoring irrelevances designed to make the Party's candidates seem like eccentric loons.)

News at Ten told us that in three minutes, but left out the 87 minutes of irrelevance around it.

As for the vanquished progressive haters out there spewing their venom at anything that is a reminder of their humiliating defeat, irrelevance is tough to chew on.

I do wish we could move on from it, not least because at least for the next 5 years the fortunes of the Lib Dems will be a total & utter irrelevance.

The reasons: a debate on climate change could distract from the issue at hand, and the irrelevance of climate - change numbers to the NEO threat.

Perhaps, just as it is possible that this movie reflects Smith looking at his age and the potential irrelevance of things he holds dear.

The stabs made at George W. Bush are amusing only for their inadequacy and irrelevance — surely we've all made up our minds whether he is an idiot or not almost two thirds of the way through his maximum eight years in power, and any satirist hoping to target Bush at this late stage had better have an amazing new slant to get any reaction.

The fixation on Marina's body is all the more glaring considering that Lelio includes one scene that establishes, at least superficially, the irrelevance and insensitivity of questions about anatomy and genitals.

Nothing could be further from the truth: the Sad Puppies want to save the Hugo Awards from irrelevance — one only needs to look at the increase in nomination and final vote ballots cast in the past five year to realize that the Sad Puppies campaigns have massively increased income to the Hugo Awards (via Worldcon memberships) and public interest in these awards.

Today, we will look at the reasons why in the next few years these and Barnes and Noble may be fade away into irrelevance.

Industry pundit Mike Shatzkin just wrote a long blog post in which — as an aside — he mentioned why the AuthorEarnings analysis is «doomed» to irrelevance: because some of his friends in publishing say that the true royalties at «big houses» are 40 % rather than 25 % when you factor in all the unearned advances they pay.

Operation Raccoon City also invites you to rewrite gaming history at one point in the game, somewhat plunging its narrative into irrelevance altogether, should you choose to do so.

In mocking art - historical genres, Hawkins also smirks at their purported irrelevance and from a distance enshrines the sturdy, uncluttered world that Halvorson sternly records up close.

Allan MacRae addressed the irrelevance of the presented data at September 22, 2013 at 2:53 am http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/09/19/uh-oh-its-models-all-the-way-down/#comment-1423402 saying; «So you have a technical disagreement in climate science.

We are discovering new facets and processes at a terrific rate, so for these «experts» to calmly consign everything barring Co2 to irrelevance gives me cause for concern.

I am deeply touched that despite the unpleasantness of that task, you yet manage to summon up the strength to persevere in directing such a high % of your comments here at Climate Etc. to instructing me about the irrelevance and uninteresting nature of my comments.

«More and more, it's a combination of fantasy and irrelevance,» says David Victor, a professor of international relations at the University of California, San Diego, and the co-author of a critique of the target published in today's issue of Nature.

I agree with a lot of your assertions, e.g. the practical irrelevance of the adiabatic and hence essentially reversible ALR — the only mechanism that actually cools the atmosphere (permanently removes heat from it) is radiation, and that occurs in the upper troposphere where the atmosphere ceases to be opaque to e.g. LWIR (although it is more complex than this, this process occurs in depth and at different depths in different frequencies).

He should try to include some actual substance — instead of merely ranting about warmist fraud and ignorance and repeating the utter irrelevance of the Earth cooling at 0.05 W / m2.

If anything here exemplifies «playing the man and not the ball» Derech, it is your ongoing campaign of villification against McIntyre, and it's complete irrelevance to the point at hand.

The Archer - Schmidt view of CO2 hanging around for centuries seems based on a model of residence time having what I see as at least three problems: fallacious appeal to paleoclimate, irrelevance of average residence time per molecule, and neglect of disequilibrium coefficients.

(My first two attempts were more complicated because at that point it's irrelevance had not yet become clear to me.)

At the very least, it shows an irrelevance to the alarm we've heard over and over again about the decline of winter.

If the example is bad, the authors have misclassified at least one paper (Belling); if it's good, Level 6 (or what remains of it after kicking the rejecters downstairs) is an irrelevance; and either way the authors have shown themselves to be very careless or confused.

Last year, after receiving an honorary degree at Yale University, Justice Abella urged courts to enforce human rights values, noting that judges are «better to court controversy than to court irrelevance.»

The irrelevance of law firm «knowledge management» ~ good piece on the people responsible for bad law firm contract templates and whether law firm «KM just needs to be scrapped at law firms altogether.»