Sentences with phrase «virtually meaningless»

It's not enough that Toronto area home - buyers are facing competition so fierce that list prices have become virtually meaningless and bully or pre-emptive offers are increasingly the norm.

Consequently, a market share based only on new listings is virtually meaningless.

If both of you are really adults in the relationship then I do think that there is a strong possibility that you can overlook something so virtually meaningless.

Resume clichés are also best avoided — words like «hardworking,» «team player,» «motivated,» and «good communicator» are overused and virtually meaningless unless backed up with relevant examples.

Let's go back to the example of the woman and her siblings who bought a non-guaranteed policy for their mother, only to find their combined $ 250,000 spent on premiums rendered virtually meaningless in the long run.

The report further concludes that proposals made by the Business Council, some of which are included in the 2016 Executive Budget, would render the workers» compensation virtually meaningless as a source of wage replacement benefits for injured workers.

But beyond that, the distinction between an online and offline life may become virtually meaningless.

I looked at a couple briefly, and I find the same modeling and proxy references that make GAT a virtually meaningless term in my opinion.

I would say that most likely none of the models are exactly correct and even reasonably correct, so I just go one model further, kind of like atheists brag about going one God further;) concluding that their historical matches are physically virtually meaningless.

John Philips (13:43:35) «Trends» have become virtually meaningless lately, since the word has been so variably used, but try this: Eyeball the temperature curve as correlated to the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and you will see an excellent relationship with the cyclic cooling and warming phase of the PDO overlaid on a gradual warming trend emerging from the Little Ice Age.

So to say that the observations are «within» the model uncertainty is in my book a virtually meaningless statement.

I was a working engineer in the era from the slide - rule to the early PC and every time I look at climate data I come to the conclusion it would have been discarded as virtually meaningless & functionally useless in any role I occupied.

There are and were many artists whose work would be virtually meaningless without the benefit of establishment galleries because they do not appeal to the average person's artistic sensibilities, for example de Kooning, Kline, cecily brown.

When a manager at a small shop leaves, the fund's record becomes virtually meaningless.

I wasn't interested in whether the fundamental ETFs have outperformed their cap - weighted counterparts: over a period of five years, this is virtually meaningless.

After one year, a credit inquiry is virtually meaningless, although it will continue to display on your consumer report for another 12 months.

«There's no question that Elizabeth Natale has captured the mood among classroom teachers who are caught in the straitjacket of the Common Core and the entire regimen that evaluates teachers on the basis of their students» scores on virtually meaningless standardized exams,» said author Jonathan Kozol, who wrote the classic «Death at an Early Age» about his first year teaching in Boston.

But the state's largest teachers union, New York State United Teachers, called the 2017 test results «virtually meaningless.»

But in doing so, they've created a new need: ensuring that diplomas earned partially in virtual classrooms aren't also virtually meaningless.

Meanwhile, charter schools are not subject to quality review at all, which will render the Snapshots virtually meaningless (many growth - focused charters, it should be noted, benefitted mightily from the single - letter - grade report cards).

The problem with using «Rise Of The Villains» as this season's subtitle is that it's such a generic phrase as to be virtually meaningless.

... If the process is corrupted, the results are going to be virtually meaningless,» Vasgird says.

But the state's largest teacher's union, New York State United Teachers, called the 2017 test results «virtually meaningless».

District 57 — representing large portions of Brooklyn neighborhoods like Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights and Bedford - Stuyvesant — is one of many districts that is overwhelmingly dominated by the Democratic Party to the point that general election contests are virtually meaningless.

With a + / - 5.2 % margin of error the poll ranking is virtually meaningless, however.

Many of the labels that are on those products are virtually meaningless and they have no standard and they have no legal definition.

But the state's largest teachers union, New York State United Teachers, called the 2017 test results «virtually meaningless.»

Housing Minister Grant Shapps will say: «Labour never really could stomach people aspiring to own their own homes and so they took delight in vindictively slashing the right to buy discounts until they were virtually meaningless.

They will be virtually meaningless too as all the key words are interpreted differently by half the cabinet, the Irish government and the rest of the EU.

All are environments where our words as Christians have become virtually meaningless.

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The sheer number of Pages and advertisers on its platform renders «view advertisements» a virtually utterly meaningless addition, primarily as cyberscammers and malicious actors are additionally going to be specialists at setting up new bills to additional their scams — moving on to the next batch of burner debts after they've netted each sparkling catch of unsuspecting victims.

The first three - quarters of the film is virtually indistinguishable from the rest of the origin pictures, built up from nonsensical, otherworldly, unexplained things, given meaningless definitions, and generating motives and purposes and conduct with broad strokes.

In the face of such deeply disruptive changes, virtually any «adaptation» is meaningless.