Sentences with phrase «irrelevance by»

Wrong again, typical irrelevance by an alarmist who confuses the atmosphere with the human body and confuses irrelevance with science.

Unfortunately, it was knocked into the stratosphere of irrelevance by a single hip - check from Cloud.

Not only that she has sealed her own passing into irrelevance by repeatedly stating she will not serve in a Corbyn front bench team.

Normally shunned into irrelevance by their small stature in parliament, it's on these rare occasions when their voting intentions really matter.

In process there is continual introduction of novelty, which in the interest of survival can be responded to in one of two manners: one may reduce the event to irrelevance by «blocking out unwelcome detail» (negative prehension) or «by an initiative in conceptual prehensions, i.e., in appetition its subjective aim originates novelty to match the novelty of the environment... through thinking.»

Pop art assaulted the modernist pieties that Gorringe legitimately questions, and agenda art has overcompensated for perceived irrelevance by revisiting politics with a vengeance.

Not exact matches

Followed by irrelevance.

While Twitter could surprise us all by solidifying its leadership team, developing ad platforms that energize brands and investors and stave off Facebook Live, I believe the most likely outcome for Twitter is to go the route of MySpace — relegated to irrelevance.

A few decades of political influence accompanied by a growing cultural irrelevance (not there yet) is also not exactly a triumphant narrative.

The big difference between now and then, however, is that in those days Christianity was not a word tainted by a bad history of oppression, hypocrisy and irrelevance.

Although I believe that it is the grafting of the work of American theologians on the history of German, or Central European, theology that has most clearly defined the meaning of theology, and its irrelevance to the average American Christian, this is not the only role played by professional theologians.

Thus, while the academic discussion moves off into sophisticated irrelevance, lay theology is dominated by erroneous notions of the Bible and Christian tradition and a lack of freedom and authenticity.

Unfortunately, many churches today seem to have replaced militancy on social issues by a bland irrelevance.

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.

Faced with Catholic clericalism, Orthodox binding, European Protestant devastation, confrontations with old and new paganisms, the irrelevance of much of American Protestantism, and ominous signs that, by standards of human judgment, the church was unequal to its task, the editors relied on a secret for hope.

He merits sympathy rather than blame; and if he keeps his connection with the church enough to support it by his attendance and contributions, in spite of what must seem to him the irrelevance of many of its activities, he deserves much credit.

The expansion of state power is justified for its liberative effects, freeing women from the oppression of an antiquated institution (its irrelevance was reinforced by frequent citation of the questionable statistic that 98 % of Catholic women use contraceptives).

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.

The lukewarmness engendered by vagueness and irrelevance could, in principle, be replaced with wholehearted conviction of truth and importance.

Rather than brush this aside as an example of the irrelevance of the church, it deserves to be examined as a revealing example of what I mean by the social power of myth.

By contrast, early exits in the Europa League for Everton, Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool, when they moved over from the other competition, were viewed as an irrelevance.

«The fact that politicians chose to come back is an irrelevance in terms of the tactics that were by then developing,» Sir Hugh Orde told Newsnight.

[375] UKIP leader Nigel Farage also challenged Salmond to debate, but Farage was dismissed by an SNP spokeswoman as «an irrelevance in Scotland».

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.

His challenge over the next few years whilst his luck holds is to change British politics for ever (by moving the centre to the right) and by making the Labour Party an irrelevance.

Negotiations about some ethics package that could be praised as acceptable by all sides and relegate the Moreland Commission to irrelevance apparently stalled before the latest political conflict erupted.

As the Conservatives had little hope of making a splash in the Glasgow East by - election in July 2008, one might have thought that his speech kicking off their campaign would be an irrelevance.

The post-merger Lib Dems were a broke irrelevance, desperately fending off David Owen's rump SDP, trounced by the Greens in the Euro elections.

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.)

«The measuring stick of greatest significance are the results from June 26 of last year where Charles Barron lost the congressional race by 42 points, an unprecedented display of district - wide irrelevance,» said Jeffries spokeswoman Lupe Todd.

The Lib Dems have been viewed by many as an irrelevance since their heavy defeat in last year's general election.

AR5 would become an irrelevance if it was so out of kilter with developments showing up by 2015.

Prior to the 1960s the asteroids were largely dismissed by astronomers as an irrelevance, and indeed a nuisance.

Despite the fact that its Wii U console spent the year fading into irrelevance, Nintendo had more unique titles than any other publisher and managed to improve the overall quality of its releases — mainly by sticking to its handheld device.

But it's in a class by itself as a mind - numbing irrelevance.

That's as good a symbol as any for the colossal, and by no means necessary, irrelevance of Midway.

And though we haven't talked much, so far, about the stars we lost this year, I thought I'd start there, inspired in part by Amy's continued ruminations on Hollywood stardom and its increasing flirtation with irrelevance and in part by Dana's earlier questions about movie history and the people, practices, themes, technologies, and so on that define the way we watch movies right now.

With Survival of the Dead, George A. Romero's Dead series has officially crossed into irrelevance - as the movie suffers from an egregiously low - rent sensibility that's perpetuated by an emphasis on wholly unappealing elements (ie characters, dialogue, visuals, etc, etc).

Riggs hopes to stave off irrelevance and to assert male superiority by challenging the best female tennis player in the world to a match.

One can hardly blame academics for avoiding all this unpleasantness by remaining swaddled in the pleasant irrelevance of the ivory tower.

Now, one can't unduly fault those academics who seek to avoid unpleasant public debates by swaddling themselves in the pleasant irrelevance of the ivory tower.

Followed by irrelevance.

By keeping their collective heads in the sand, ed schools are merely aiding their own slide into irrelevance and worse.

Meaningful Student Involvement aligns on this form of the self - actualized learner because both challenge the apparent irrelevance of schooling by situating students as the drivers of learning, teaching and leadership.

It's been a salutary experience to realize how much my responses to people that I meet are colored by such irrelevances as I listed earlier, even if it is in the effort to «not» allow myself to react in a certain way.

It's fair to say that BlackBerry is targeting fleets and businesses with this device, an angle the company seems to take by default given its current irrelevance in the wider consumer space.

This is known as the dividend irrelevance theory, which originated in a 1961 paper by Merton Miller and Frank Modigliani.

Fellow investor extraordinaire Peter Lynch highlighted the irrelevance of tracking macroeconomic data by noting, «If you spend 13 minutes a year on economics, you've wasted 10 minutes.»

Unless and until the CCAs wake up to the fact that they need to collectively start educating consumers about the debt settlement option, the entire industry is doomed to irrelevance as the existing DMP solution becomes replaced by internal bank programs (and consumers taking matters in their own hands via all the information readily available online nowadays).

In recent years, the irrelevance of open market operations has also been argued (for slightly different reasons) by academic economists renown for their work in the theory of «rational expectations», including Thomas Sargent and John Muth.