Sentences with phrase «on irrelevances»

For example, my article alleged that the Akwa Ibom State Government was wasting resources on irrelevances instead of handling basic issues such as payment of salaries of doctors in the state.

Mohnish Pabrai On The Irrelevance Of Buying Stock Outside Circle Of Competence And Realty Stocks

And it can only be a political tactic to press for me to make a judgement on the irrelevance as to whether the «hot spot» is a result of only warming from AGW or is a result of any warming.

The two are completely different fields (an I'd agree with you on the irrelevance of the socio - psychological gibberish).

My statement on the irrelevance of the thermodynamic equilibrium referred to the full atmosphere, which is always far from the thermodynamic equilibrium.

It is possible, if not likely, that one or more of these factors are in play with Dr. Curry's continued focus on irrelevance.

But she parted company with Scalia on the irrelevance of foreign law in Court decisions.

Not exact matches

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:

Legge also pointed out that spending substantial amounts of money on one weapon might not be justified, because if the Soviet tanks got as far as Calais «without a strategic nuclear exchange having occurred, then I think the Channel Tunnel will be an irrelevance.»

On the plus, side, high oil drives electric cars and alternative energy development which helps to punish big oil and quicker their irrelevance.

It's a real - time world now, and if you're not engaged, then you're on your way to marketplace irrelevance.

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.

Thankfully this unchanging «rock» continues to gather moss and will eventually sink into irrelevance because of it's stagnant views on these types of issues.

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.

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.

And... it's just that kind of myopic world - view, that is so out of touch with reality, that will keep you and the «Christian Right» on the continued path to irrelevance.

«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.

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.

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.»

We believe that this error on his part was the primary reason for his quick slip into professional mathematical irrelevance (see WEPM).

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

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.

Although many observers see this growth only as evidence of the increasing irrelevance of religion, the nonreligious represent an important cultural group, as liberal on social issues as the most committed religious people are conservative.

When the simple message has a head - on collision with a snarled human problem, the irrelevance of such sermons is evident.

We're hanging ourselves on a rope of inertia, irrelevance and introspection.

And students interpret the mainline church's absence as an example of its irrelevance for all but, depending on one's perspective, a select elite or a fringe element.

The most serious error in modern esthetics has been the general rejection of the ideal of purity or nobility on the ground of esthetic irrelevance.

It feels like if I didn't say anything — if I ran out of the room right then, sobbing — he'd just tidy up a few papers on his desk and go back about his job of being Barry Alvarez, the former Badgers head coach who took Wisconsin to three Rose Bowls after decades of irrelevance, then signed the check for his own bronze statue as the school's athletic director.

Not Larry Bird or John Havlicek or Bill Russell, but the kid from Inglewood, California, who landed on their doorstep after more than a decade of irrelevance and gave them a reason to come to the Garden again.

Pires and his few thinkalikes will be forgotten and a total irrelevance when very soon now, Wenger is sacked, thus pushing them into mourning and weeping at his sorrowful picture still hanging on their walls.

Perhaps the overwhelming oddness of the position — the shadows of 1966, the constant scrutiny, the on - again, off - again calendar, the increasing irrelevance of international football when set against the all - consuming Premier League, the insistence from the FA that the England manager stand as some kind of moral paragon — drives those that inhabit it to do strange things, to kick out against common sense.

Still the tour's top news maker despite his injury - plagued last couple of years and increasing irrelevance inside the ropes, Woods is the subject of a controversial new book from his ex-caddie Steve Williams, who excoriates his former boss in an autobiography scheduled for release on Monday.

The media discourse on Iran and nukes should bring to the forefront an old but significant question about the relevance (or rather the irrelevance) of nuclear weapons and the failings of the non-prolifeation regime.

The danger is irrelevance on the biggest issue of the decade.

Yet instead of reopening conventional commentary on continental enlargement and institutional consolidation, the EU needs to broaden its debate and realize that while regional in membership, to avoid doomed irrelevance, it must become global in concern, action and engagement.

Rather than kowtow to a fated irrelevance, as «Brexit» might indicate, Cameron's proposal actually offers the EU an important opportunity to reflect on its core purposes.

An inability to articulate a Labour vision based on place, family and tradition has left the Labour Party marooned on an island of irrelevance.

That process turned his pledge of a referendum on the treaty into an irrelevance.

Just as the Labour party had to go through a painful exercise of political reinvention in response to social and economic change, so unions must embark on a similar journey or run the risk of continued marginalisation and eventual irrelevance.»

Alan Mendoza, Executive Director of The Henry Jackson Society: With Labour heading down the route of international irrelevance, Conservatives should have the courage to explore where to stand on:

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

«I'm not going to fight on my record, actually, because I'm an irrelevance to this in a way.

It is a mark of their irrelevance that David Cameron referred her behaviour to the independent adviser on ministerial conduct, Sir Alex Allan.

«The idea that because we've having a rough old time, that you turn to a total irrelevance, a referendum on our membership of the European Union, where you create turmoil on a great subject, you throw absolute confusion over our continued involvement in the European Union - I can not think of anything sillier to do,» he told the Today programme.

It will be one further step into irrelevance for a country whose power and influence is on the wane.

The debate on electoral reform has collapsed under the weight of its own tepid irrelevance.

As for the vanquished progressive haters out there spewing their venom at anything that is a reminder of their humiliating defeat, irrelevance is tough to chew on.

I've never seen so much cyber-ink dedicated to a minority party on the verge of irrelevance.

I do wish we could move on from it, not least because at least for the next 5 years the fortunes of the Lib Dems will be a total & utter irrelevance.

The reasons: a debate on climate change could distract from the issue at hand, and the irrelevance of climate - change numbers to the NEO threat.