Sentences with phrase «made meaningless»

Klein says he didn't want to sign the M.O.U. because the caveats made it meaningless, but he ultimately went along so as not to «seem like a spoilsport.»

But frankly, any assessment that sounds cool can still be made meaningless.

But, then Thierry really made them meaningless.

With all their laudable effort to understand the integrity of the Scriptures, both Old and New, and to insist on the basic unity of the Bible; with all their recognition of the place of Jesus within the setting of Jewish piety and religious thought, these scholars sometimes fail to see that the very truth about God which the Bible as a whole affirms, and above all that which the New Testament says about Jesus himself, can be smothered by sheer biblicism and thereby made meaningless for those to whom the gospel should be a living, vitalizing, and contemporary message.

(As Christians, we don't believe Christ made meaningless statements.)

Obama's religion should not be so much of a debate that he has to stage going to church to make meaningless headlines.

You can not deracinate Jesus, removing him from his given setting in history and among his own people «after the flesh,» without at the same time making him a meaningless monstrosity.

In fact, that takes the entire idea out of the hands of the indivdual and therefore makes it meaningless to God.

A dog, he said, when he can't get out a gate, will scratch and start digging and making meaningless gestures — perhaps growling or whatever to deal with frustration or surprise or fear.

Benched for 3 matches straight, probably ORDERED not to shoot by Wenger, goes in and rather than making meaningless passing shoots from 30 yards out, a screamer.

Patients react immediately when the ILN is stimulated in this manner: they open their eyes, their pupils dilate, they make meaningless sounds, their blood pressure increases and their EEG activity desynchronizes.

As has been pointed out by many, most recently by the Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, we have redefined poverty so far up as to make it a meaningless concept.

Calling everyone authors who puts words on a document and submits them to the public devalues the word so much, it makes it meaningless.

Calling everyone authors who put words in a document and submits them to the public devalues the word so much, it makes it meaningless.

You are absolutely right: «Calling everyone authors who puts words on a document and submits them to the public devalues the word so much, it makes it meaningless.»

Two days later my daughter Tara told me about an old Frenchwoman she had met, who had forgotten how to speak all languages except her childhood French and thought everyone else was just making meaningless noises.

The dramatic change to the publishing landscape brought about by the mushrooming of self - publishing has led to concerns, with the editor of publishing news site Good e-Reader, Michael Kozlowski, saying there needs to be a debate around what constitutes being an author, because «calling everyone authors who put words on a document and submits them to the public devalues the word so much, it makes it meaningless».

If you'll be getting a check from the government soon, you'll have a choice to make: use it wisely or abuse it by making meaningless purchases.

However, as each of this smaller goal comes with a cost, they would have set the Switch Stretch Goal even further, making it meaningless, and upsetting the numerous fans who have been asking for the Switch port.

Bush wants to make some meaningless, ineffective gesture so he can claim he has done something and thereby forestall any real, effective action.

Because you don't understand it; makes it meaningless for you.

Clearly this happened 60 years ago so that alone makes it meaningless in this debate.

The central idea of the article is a vicious feedback loop: Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous statements = > Advocates and media translate statements into alarmist declarations = > Politicians respond to alarm by feeding scientists more money = > [a larger number of scientists and pseudo --RSB- Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous [or false] statements...

Don't just make meaningless statements (a la KR) about how «I'm mixing up exchange and sink rates» — show me where the damn math is wrong.

I am studying actual observations to see whether claims of positive feedbacks and run - away melting are consistent with what we DO know, without making meaningless, unscientific projections massively extrapolated outside the observational data.

Conditioning kids to make meaningless sacrifices for Mother Earth isn't the purpose of public education.

The error of this number was ± 0.2 degrees making it meaningless.

Let him whine and he can look at the data after the paper is published and make meaningless comments on it that he will never publish.

Guys, can we mebbe drop the + / - AGW part of the topic, and consider what policy to discuss relevant to the actual Black Swan subject, rather than point around at everything with a feather or a wing and make meaningless assertions about its chromaticity and lineage?

The Iron Triangle (and, the Iron Rice Bowl) described by Richard S. Lindzen, Ph.D., is as follows: «Scientists make meaningless or ambiguous statements... Advocates and media translate statements into alarmist declarations... Politicians respond to alarm by feeding scientists more money.»

Do not make meaningless statements that are clichéd and not substantiated such as «hard working».

It could make it meaningless for most California homeowners.

Not exact matches

While handsome benefits can't make up for a wayward company culture or meaningless work, cool perks clearly can make a big difference.

«As Prime Minister Abe has made clear, TPP without the United States is meaningless and the balance of interests would crumble,» he told a news conference, adding Tokyo would keep explaining the benefits of the pact for America.

As a result, if you hurry, you can jump ahead of them and deliver valuable and truly differentiated products and services to a marketplace that is ready, willing, and able to buy anything that makes economic sense — and that makes common sense out of the tsunami of meaningless data that they're swimming in right now.

If it's not what is going to make you do your best work in your particular niche, then it's meaningless,» he says.

Many investors make the mistake of looking only at current or recent earnings, which are nothing more than meaningless snapshots of where a company is or was.

Defense Secretary James Mattis sensibly suggested that we might consider exempting our close allies from the tariffs to avoid creating a ridiculous diplomatic incident, but Trump blocked that idea because exempting allies would make the policy economically meaningless.

But this forecast would be so swamped by the + / - 2 % range of error as to make that forecast meaningless.

These huge outlier values make a calculated average on historical values meaningless — they will massively shift the next time there's a huge market movement.

As to the argument that since Jewish people do not believe in baptism — thus what difference does it make... Yes — we don't believe in it's effectiveness as a spiritual rite, but we know that it is NOT meaningless.

The funny thing about baptisms for the dead is that Mormon doctrine itself makes the practice meaningless!

It connotes the passage of time; the fleeting moments that make up our memories at the end of our lives; but most importantly, it conveys just how meaningless any gifts would be compared to the gift the Polziecs gave the Gerstens.

And arguing that math is meaningless does nt make sense in that context either

You made the mistake of many, many Christians that quote one particular small insignficant meaningless (by itself) scripture and try and make your case??? Come on, please?

Ultimately, neither side is willing to be swayed, making the argument meaningless, as long as each side doesn't make concerted efforts to harm the other.

This presupposition makes his entire self - study meaningless as it is a self - fulfilling prophecy.

For those who see prayer as meaningless, is it not because that they have no recognition of a Creator, a Supreme Being who made the universe with all life.

All the errors and stuff you trip on, they're meaningless to me, they're stumbling blocks you get to trip on, so you can be happy in rejecting God, because God gave you what you wanted, and it made you happy... for now.

Our youth are more interested in equality than trying to follow some made up fairytales that when researched only provide bizarre and meaningless answers.