Sentences with phrase «only tangential»

The investment by Amazon will allow the company to share in the future growth of the daily deals market without having to rush into a market that is arguably only tangential to its core e-commerce business.

It may be of only tangential relevance to law, but historians and perhaps even property lawyers will find it interesting.

Something with only a tangential relation to law, but squarely in the middle of our interest in online resources and libraries:

This question was raised in EM (Lebanon)(FC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] UKHL 64 but was only tangential to the main issue, which was the relationship between the appellant mother and her son as opposed to the father whose entitlement to custody would have been secured under Islamic law.

I got most of the secrets and power - ups on my first play through (a benefit of getting lost and wandering through puzzles only tangential to the main storyline), and I still spent at most two hours in game.

In the end, for the majority of teachers, training placements are pigeon - holed as discrete, often difficult, experiences that had only a tangential effect on the type of teacher they eventually became.

Coming upon a UCLA football practice, one at first notices only tangential and frivolous details: the fluffy yellow pads the size of watermelons that defenders wear on their forearms, the nearly erotic ease with which Running Back Freeman McNeil absorbs the impact of the ball as he takes it from Quarterback Tom Ramsey.

I think this is really an argument about the experiments, with only tangential relation to the real - world phenomenon nominally being tested.

Kim Arthur, founding partner of Main Management, which uses a variety of ETFs to construct its investment portfolios, said the key to thematic ETFs that work is getting past the ones that market an idea that's popular but hold stocks that have only a tangential relationship to the investment theme.

He's trying to describe why buying MapMyFitness was never going to be enough; the real opportunities would come only if he controlled every part of the digital health experience, even if nutrition, say, has only tangential relevance to the sportswear business.

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The National recently featured a 17 - minute report by Lang on private security firms in Afghanistan using NATO money to bribe insurgents, a topic with only the most tangential link to her beat.

Many of these respondents can only be politically and civically involved in a tangential way because of time and economic constraints, the survey found.

If the same people who claim these commitments are also swayed by presidential candidates who offer only the most tangential, glancing, elliptical, and facile engagements with the texts they themselves claim to hold dear, then the emperor and his public square are, if not naked, then leaving little to the imagination.

Tarkowski admits the only contact from Poland was tentative and tangential but faced a more forceful push from one of his cousins, Pawel.

The only accurate approach to measure the tangential speed of M31 is to observe proper motion of M31's stars against a background of distant galaxies.

As with many of the body's core operating functions, the real story often gets camouflaged within vague, consumer - based terms that end up being only medically tangential.

Though their relevance to a central theme might only seem tangential on the surface, what each story centers upon is how the loss of life affects the remainder of the living, both directly and indirectly.

Things get complicated quickly, our only reprieve from the gloomy motel rooms provided by the tangential presence of Jon Gries, which doesn't feel all that necessary.

These scenes are intended to provide perspective on the real world consequences of WikiLeaks, but they come off as wildly tangential and only serve to blunt the impact of the main storyline.

However, until the 10Q for Q3 ’12 (which included the disclosure that the 3.5 % pro-forma revenue growth consisted of NEGATIVE 1.4 % organic growth and 4.9 % acquired growth from seven acquisitions — ADAM, HealthConnect, BSI, Taimma, PlanetSoft, Fintechnix, and TriSystems — completed in 2011 and 2012), the pro-forma revenue was the only metric Ebix provided that was tangential to organic growth.

This informative session will focus not only on the importance of «elder gaming mechanics,» but also on the subtleties that should be considered when designing them and the dangers of overthinking them - hopefully with some tangential references to BioWare Austin's yet - to - be revealed MMO.

The tangential, GTA - inspired fun of building up your Alert level, or the co-op-exclusive diversion of watching your friend take pot shots at other cars from the trunk of yours as you drive, only do so much.

Each piece in the exhibition provides only an oblique, tangential, narrow view, like a tiny robot equipped with only a single photoreceptor.

Every trip you don't have to make to the grocery store not only reduces your bills, but it also reduces pressure on the food supply and has the tangential effect of lowering commodity agriculture prices.

There are many factors that go into evaluating a claim, not only in terms of liability and damages, but also in terms of tangential issues, which go into an overall evaluation.