Sentences with phrase «irrelevance in»

Sure, the Japanese giant's smartphone arm may be an irrelevance in the U.S. market right now, for reasons we won't get into here.

In light of the preponderance of data and physics that disputes CAGW, is RC willing to accept irrelevance in the very near future and damage the integrity of science, just to support a political opinion?

The atmospheric greenhouse effect is an irrelevance in the face of The Hot Water Bottle Effect.

In this sense, it's not dissimilar to the alcohol or gambling addict that can not resist the immediate «pleasure» of satisfying her or his habit — the future consequences are discounted to the point of irrelevance in the addict's mind.

In the latter half of the twentieth century, painting had acquired a beleaguered status with accusations of its irrelevance in the face of conceptual art, photography and the moving image.

In the documentary Waking Sleeping Beauty, Disney producer Don Hahn chronicled how Disney Animation attempted to claw its way out of irrelevance in 1984.

2016 may have been the year that time remembered, but in most video games, Time is a toothless entity, an irrelevance in thrall to Space.

RIM kicks of its North American BlackBerry Jam developer conference with key updates on its BB10 operating system, but is it enough to stop the slide into irrelevance in the US?

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.

Mark Barrett, writing on his Ditchwalk blog some time back, presented one of the most stunning retorts to Yog's Law and it's irrelevance in the modern age of publishing through a kind of reversed engineering -LSB-...]

There are precedents of course, the original community, Friends Reunited went from being the biggest social network on the planet to irrelevance in a matter of months after they asked people to pay to be a member.

It is politically fashionable to declare the Lib Dems an irrelevance in this way.

They are viewed as an irrelevance in policy terms — mere aiders and abetters to the Conservatives, propping up David Cameron to continue cutting as usual.

With the Scottish elections in May, the propaganda volume will be turned up and another resounding victory in Edinburgh would paradoxically emphasise their irrelevance in Westminster, fuelling that disaffection.

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

«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.

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.

How has this happened, when everybody from the Bank of England to the International Monetary Fund, from Barack Obama to Shinzo Abe, from the Trades Union Congress to the Confederation of British Industry, have all warned of the major financial shocks in the near term and economic decline and geopolitical irrelevance in the long term after a vote for Brexit?

Musk went on to argue that broad government regulation was vital because companies are currently pressured to pursue advanced AI or risk irrelevance in the marketplace:

Not exact matches

But because of the trends cited above, this future would have meant an inexorably shrinking readership combined with inexorably shrinking advertising revenue — ending in something close to complete irrelevance.

They've understood time as an agent in brand building: how you start fresh, pass through the fire of irrelevance, then become authentic, and then become sacred.

While they'll likely never regain the market dominance they had in the 20th century, (their business model continues to be extremely profitable) Nadella likely saved Microsoft from irrelevance.

In those days, the network's attitude towards a given musician made the difference between a career playing to packed venues and a career waiting tables.Those days are long gone, and the network has been sliding into irrelevance ever since.

The world has moved on, leaving these elements of the Christian Church that can not adjust to new knowledge or a new consciousness lost in a sea of their own irrelevance.

but in attempting to make that large number seem problematic, you actually both defeated your other argument (about its irrelevance and lack of pervasiveness) while also unintentionally pointing out the very opposite of the point you were attempting to make — the primary unity underlying a vast & varied swath of people.

There are many of us who are weaker than we realize, and in an effort to be heard and enjoy some personal accolades as a leader of the faith, are; but only to look foolish for narrow - mindedness, cultural irrelevance, or logically flawed expressions of theology.

Through much of the commentary on the death of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn last August, there was the repeated intimation - and sometimes vulgar assertion - that, after his return to Russia in 1994, he descended into crotchety old age and irrelevance.

The apparent irrelevance of distance and the importance of particular personal affinities in the more striking stories about telepathy favor this interpretation.

«I insist that the irrelevance of black life has been drilled into this country since its infancy, and shall not be extricated through the latest innovations in Negro Finishing School.

The majority of ethnic Poles felt the impact of a Polish form of Stalinism from 1948 until 1956» one for the most part looser and less bloody than those visited upon most of Eastern Europe, but this was an irrelevance to them, not having volunteered to be subjects in a comparative politics «experiment.»

It will take a great deal of courage and not a little imagination to risk failure, powerlessness, and cultural and political irrelevance — to be, in Pope Francis's words, a less «worldly» Church — for the sake of the truth.

We compel people to behave in ways that they clearly do not wish to on the basis of aggregated data whose irrelevance would become obvious if we translated them into individually meaningful terms.

Any increase in the feeling of irrelevance and of loss of interest in life is an irreligious tendency.

«The function of the findings of sociology of knowledge lies somewhere in a fashion hitherto not clearly understood, between irrelevance to the establishment of truth on the one hand, and entire adequacy for determining truth on the other.

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.

Here we have the interesting notion fairly and squarely presented to us, of there being elements of the universe which may make no rational whole in conjunction with the other elements, and which, from the point of view of any system which those other elements make up, can only be considered so much irrelevance and accident — so much «dirt,» as it were, and matter out of place.

«In fact, the new discoveries were intellectually threatening, requiring the abandonment of too many certainties, the acquisition of too many new ideas and skills, the modification of too many maxims, the sudden irrelevance of too many accepted authorities.

Harrington calls his act «walking a tightrope between the sectarian irrelevance of the visionary whose vision is not connected with anything that's going on in this society, and the pragmatic irrelevance of those who so perfectly adapt to the daily struggle that they lose sight of the larger struggle.»

When a community does not grow in love and grace When their embrace does not enlarge When they forget how to be generous and hospitable When they ignore the call to serve Then They are the ones who are leaving Saying goodbye to their hearts Receding into the past Sinking into 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.»

Its adherents are said to believe in the irrelevance of deity, supremacy of human reason, inevitability of progress, science as the guide to human progress, autonomy and centrality of the individual, and evolution as an absolute.

In these terms, nature may be sharply contrasted with history, for Whitehead shows the virtual irrelevance to human events of the physicist's analysis.

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.

Only in recognition of the power of this inheritance can one understand the reception, bordering upon the charge of total irrelevance, with which many even within the churches regard the entire range of biblical eschatological teaching.

If Mankind were destined to achieve its apotheosis, if Evolution were to reach its highest point, in our small, separate lives, then indeed the enormous travail of terrestrial organization into which we are born would be no more than a tragic irrelevance.

The Failure of Secular Humanism Secularism seeks to exclude God from public policy as an irrelevance, an interference in humanity's autonomous self - development.

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.

Our human loving, with its sexual overtones and its physical expression, can thus be set in the context of a divine - human loving that redeems it from triviality, frustration, and ultimate irrelevance.

I personally prefer to cope with the challenge of irreverance in secular society than with the irrelevance of the ecclesiastical sub-culture.

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.