Sentences with phrase «little significance for»

It therefore has little significance for the General Election, where there will be a clear choice: another five years of this tired and failing Labour Government or change, hope and optimism under David Cameron's Conservatives.»

The game had little significance for either side, with United guaranteed to finish in sixth place and Southampton currently in eighth place and unable to finish any higher.

Jesus as a man or Jesus as the Christ has little significance for me.

At first sight this may appear to have little significance for the Christian Gospel.

Not exact matches

He overrates his significance, and he praises his own greatness (for little good reason) in words that would be better reserved for others (if they had any merit).

Of course they may end up disagreeing with Bernard of Clairvaux, Augustine, and Barth about the moral significance of our being created male and female, but shouldn't they be a little less sanguine about it and a little more deferential, to the point of saying, «We believe the tradition made a grave mistake in its disallowance of gay partnerships, but at the same time we acknowledge our deep indebtedness to that tradition for giving us the theological and ethical vision to even make our argument for inclusion»?

From time to time crises such as strike action remind people that they are dependent upon one another, but for the most part they live and work within the confines of their own occupation, and there is extraordinarily little communication of ideas of any significance.

I'm still trying to figure out what it means to embrace waiting as a part of life, but so far the most interesting fringe benefit I've observed is a newfound capacity for absorbing the significance of the little things.

He overrates his significance, and he praises his own greatness (for little good reason) in words that would be better....

And since the Old Testament word for angel, as that of the New Testament, means also messenger, it is a legitimate suspicion that these narratives preserve reminiscences of the growing significance of the prophetic movement, which comes into clear focus just a little later in First Samuel.

The significance of the myth of the end - time for us must be no less cosmic than it was for the ancients, whose breadth of vision, when carefully examined, is little short of amazing.

Some theologians, for instance, who have become interested in «story» as a source for theology have used the term so broadly that it means everything and hence very little of significance.

Finally, a theology of revelation will be of little interest to us if it fails to address the individual's personal search for significance.

Our ordinary, pre-revelational images of God are often little more than expressions and legitimations of those powers before whom we act out our heroic performances in an effort to gain the significance for which we crave.

But they do not consider that the Christian Church has much to say to them on the subject — perhaps with justice, since so often, in Christian circles, prayer has become little more than a formal exercise without deep significance for this or that particular man or woman.

There can be little doubt that one reason for Christian failure here has been the narrowing of the significance of the gospel's proclamation of God in Christ with its theological corollary in the dogma of the Incarnation.

Brisman does little to explore the motivation behind Jacob's revisionary spirit; therefore little insight is gained into the significance of this revised work for ancient or modern readers.

I hope I'm wrong but this could be the most damaging win when it comes to transfers... winning 1 game, after about 20 minutes of really good play, is of little consequence in the grand scheme of things... only those with the most selfish of intentions would suggest otherwise... the only reason we're even in this predicament, where were celebrating our first victory of 2018 against a bottom half squad who is managed by possibly the only individual more antiquated than our manager, is because of Wenger's ridiculous mishandling of his contract last year combined with his mishandling of the contracts of our top players this year; a fact that he himself admitted to... so before you get too excited about the possibilities of our current roster don't forget what has happened over the last several years and pray to the gods of football that real quality reinforcements like Auba are on the way, which could have happened years ago for less money and we might have been holding a trophy of some significance, or this brief respite will be followed by the usual mediocrity and stagnation

For example, a sentimental commercial on TV might bring on a host of tears that prior to having a baby would have little significance.

That the new prime minister has little regard for the significance of the constitution or the importance of justice was immediately demonstrated by her baffling appointment of the pusillanimous, self - advancing Liz Truss as lord chancellor.

Unlike the 9th Senate district race, even if he wins, the victory for Republicans would have little significance on the makeup of the Democratic - dominated Assembly.

The government remains bound by the terms of the Coalition Agreement, so the fact, for instance, that the new Justice Secretay Chris Grayling once resolved to «tear up» the Human Rights Act is of little significance.

The new excavations at Treblinka and Sobibór have taken on profound significance, because for many years there has been so little visible evidence of what happened at the camps.

Interesting, Little Red, I didn't know red had special significance for Indians.

Luckily, this is often of little significance, since money can be stored without risk of loss at a bank for much of the game, or if the party holds the very useful strongbox.

Students» complexities, individual strengths, and areas for improvement are masked in lieu of singular ratings that have high significance and little meaning or use.

The significance of the Common Core is that the advocates for the Common Core and the people who are designing the test talk very explicitly about, as Carol said, these instructional shifts, which have not been publicly debated, which got little public airing as 40 - odd states rushed to adopt the Common Core in 2009, 2010, and which portend a dramatic shift in how we teach 50 million children reading and math.

While they might be statistically significant, they might mean relatively little in the grand scheme of things (i.e., in terms of practical significance; see also «The Difference Between» Significant» and «Not Significant» is not Itself Statistically Significant» or posts on Andrew Gelman's blog for more discussion on these topics if interested).

People often think that puppy playtime and puppy class is great fun for the puppy but really of little significance to the puppy's overall development.

Many cats, however, have murmurs for years that are of little significance to their overall health.

For those cat owners who haven't thought much about the significance of kitty's oral health, it tends to take very little to education to create a convert.

One of the most puzzling minor sidelights of Courbet's composition is the significance of the little boy scribbling a picture, a later insertion whose presence has been accounted for both as a mere space filler - to balance the still - life objects on the left - hand side — and as a personification of the newly awakened interest in the art of children associated with the Swiss artist Rodolphe Topffer.15 Yet here again a Fourierist interpretation best accounts for this figure.

In exchange for the loan of Estelle, they agreed to loan NOMAanother important work by Degas, one that had a parallel significance for the Virginia community, who rallied together to purchase it in the 1940s: his Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.

These little smudges, hair, and pieces of trash make a case for themselves and their significance.

There is little room left for anthropogenic warming of other than minor significance The current hiatus represents a peak in both the 60 and 960 + / - periodicities, The linked post also forecasts the timing and amplitude of a possible coming cooling.

They should consider what it would be like looking at it from another, layman - type, perspective (mine): a guy who prides himself for nitpicking every little bit of data he can get managed to find an error that has no significance (which he called himself a micro-error).

I realize that 34 years of satellite data is a little short, but certainly long enough for statistical significance.

This article on goldfish water temperature illustrates the significance of even 3 degrees C for something just a little larger than a lobster pot.

Other examples involving both risks and opportunities include changes of investment flows to regions where future climate change impacts may be beneficial for productivity Finally, some impacts that are entirely local and may have little or no direct effect outside the regions in which they occur still threaten values of global significance, and thus trigger international concern.

It is of no little significance that the IPCC's value for the coefficient in the CO2 forcing equation depends on only one paper in the literature; that its values for the feedbacks that it believes account for two - thirds of humankind's effect on global temperatures are likewise taken from only one paper; and that its implicit value of the crucial parameter κ depends upon only two papers, one of which had been written by a lead author of the chapter in question, and neither of which provides any theoretical or empirical justification for a value as high as that which the IPCC adopted.

Physical Symptoms: Judges attach little significance to isolated physical symptoms of impairment given the lack of their scientific relationship to impairment, the police officer's unfamiliarity with the accused's usual demeanour, and alternative explanations for the symptoms.

Luckily, this is often of little significance, since money can be stored without risk of loss at a bank for much of the game, or if the party holds the very useful strongbox.

Contrary to human rights standards which proscribe discrimination and require protection of rights of indigenous peoples to practise and revitalise their cultural traditions [62], the majority's approach apparently dictates a historical search for an actual chain of evolution, under a range of destructive outside influences, to establish a link with «tradition» which may be of little significance to a community, whilst ignoring genuine assertions, or interpretations, of traditional laws and customs by the community itself.