Sentences with phrase «more insignificant issue»

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Now on to more important things (because truth be told, this really is an insignificant issue in the scheme of things).

As Muslims have come to become more than an insignificant share of the left wing coalition in many parts of Western Europe and North America, despite the left wing not many any real policy concessions to attract them, members of left wing parties have come to have more interpersonal contact with Muslims which has led to reduced fear and increased mutual understanding, and political leaders in left wing parties have felt it politic and appropriate to refrain from emphasizing policies and issues that actively antagonize a not insignificant share of their coalition even when (if push came to shove) they might be uneasy with some of the political and social views of this part of their coalition.

(This is a not - insignificant subculture in our society, by the way — and all the more so in view of the worldwide power of the Catholic papacy to influence opinion on all kinds of issues.)

I think this is a critical issue for the entire AGW construct because if the extra DLR from more GHGs can not add to ocean heat content then only the effects on the air need be considered and that would be insignificant in the face of oceanic control of surface air temperatures.