In contrast, today's budding poets might seem insignificant and pointless, punch-drunk and undirected about content, style, identity. |
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He makes his presence small, flattens his childish ego into something still and insignificant. |
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The peaks of Glen Shiel loomed over and made me feel deliciously small and insignificant. |
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In universal terms it is a small, insignificant star, fairly average in the great scheme of things. |
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I shudder to think of the way my small, insignificant encounter would be treated today. |
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As little Josie walked down the street, she began to feel quite small and insignificant. |
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No fact is to small to overlook, no nugget of information too insignificant to discard. |
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Any news, no matter how small or insignificant, could take our minds away for just a moment. |
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But I rest easy in the knowledge that we are insignificant in the grand scheme of things. |
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Staring up at the stars, Lauren usually felt small and insignificant, but this time instead she felt important, too important. |
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Freshmen stood timidly together in circles, looking small and insignificant. |
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They are pretty insignificant politically, and located too far away for anyone to really bother. |
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The extent to which a human can be made to feel insignificant in the face of an intractable force of nature knows no bounds. |
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Any help or assistance is sufficient provided it is not so insignificant as to be negligible. |
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I really did think their influence had waned to a point where they were as insignificant as they deserved to be. |
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Close to the Italian neo-realists in style, Iranian cinema takes small events in insignificant lives and creates high drama. |
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Seemingly insignificant scratches in glass may cause cracking and breakage while processing jars in a canner. |
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The local fishing caravels and brigs appeared small and insignificant, overshadowed by the tall ships. |
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The guerrilla war may be annoying, and deadly, but it is also, the brass tells us, militarily insignificant. |
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Not that versioning is culturally insignificant, but the split in accessibility recast lines between editors and readers in important ways. |
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I feel that if it is able to render good service, especially to the Buddha dharma and Tibet, then my personal life is insignificant. |
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And the most startling thing was to learn suddenly that he was very insignificant. |
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As a result, he was getting through a not insignificant quantity of opiates to handle the pain. |
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You have to persuade them that they are insignificant and powerless so they will live their lives in accordance with that. |
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The nudie took it one step further, making the location insignificant and the amount of body bared ample. |
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By the way, this is not to say that Chinese bloggers are totally insignificant and negligible. |
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But the Shadow had shown them that they were still insignificant and easily crushed. |
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The pensioners' Christmas bonus, was, in that overall scheme, an insignificant measure that amounted to a token of the government's intent. |
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This has led to a saving of over 100 requests a month our current daily workload which, if translated into money, is not an insignificant amount. |
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Don't think that local elections are measly, insignificant, and not worth your time. |
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But today indictments can appear insignificant compared to the ongoing threat. |
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He would not have said the life of one refugee is insignificant compared to the overall problem. |
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However, these seem to me to be insignificant factors compared to the factors that weigh in favour of sending the matter to the Federal Court. |
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One of the crucial aspects that I like to point out is that crime in Namibia is insignificant compared with that in South Africa, for instance. |
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It is surely possible to imagine a culture, for instance, in which race would be an unimportant, insignificant characteristic of individuals. |
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The post-socialization troubles of the Chinese countryside were insignificant compared with those experienced by the Soviet Union. |
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Only an insignificant amount of the mass of the atom is associated with electrons, so the mass of the atom also stays essentially the same. |
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Getting a particular letter out is insignificant compared to finding ways and means of making your office run smoothly. |
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Again she was frustrated as the money was insignificant compared to her so-called husband's supposed worth. |
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The value of their lives is insignificant, compared to the value of our rights and freedoms. |
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He pointed out levels are insignificant compared with parts of Devon and Cornwall where more than 30 per cent of houses are affected. |
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When Ben was born we bought a camcorder in order to capture his every waking moment no matter how insignificant. |
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Maybe they like feeling small and insignificant when compared to the infinite space above and the ominous desert around them. |
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Real economic profits nowadays play an abysmally insignificant role toward dictating economic expansion. |
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Well, film lovers too feel that such talent should not be wasted in insignificant roles! |
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What America is tasting now is something insignificant compared to what we have tasted for scores of years. |
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He was insignificant in every way and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. |
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Thus in logomania the patient repeats involuntarily some insignificant word, or some uncouth expression, which is always the same. |
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I think that the initial giddy passion that begins many affairs is a relatively superficial and insignificant thing. |
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They do flower but these are insignificant, though if picked and dried they can be used for indoor winter decoration. |
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He listened to all her problems, no matter how petty and insignificant, and offered solutions, never once laughing. |
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Even in childhood and young womanhood, there is little of the contingent and insignificant detail which humanises the great. |
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Every seemingly insignificant, color-coded fragment of the picture's makeup coheres into a satisfying whole. |
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For example, yarrow, a plant of major importance in herbal remedies, gets only three rather insignificant mentions. |
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The ship seemed tiny and insignificant now, dwarfed by the great tower of the Pharos lighthouse. |
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At such short distances, this time lapse is, of course, insignificant, but it becomes very significant when looking at stars. |
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Nobody appreciates a moral lashing from a pal, especially if it's over insignificant Hollywood rumors or other trite stuff. |
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Sin always magnifies the wrong thing and tries to exalt what is insignificant. |
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With just the right amount of reverb, this disc sounds great and shouldn't be dismissed as an insignificant live recording. |
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You know these people are nothing on a global scale, their antics are utterly insignificant to your life. |
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The magic of Harry Potter is an addictive and intoxicating experience, and worth every penny of the not insignificant cost. |
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She meets the Rinpoche, who illuminates and exalts her small and insignificant life. |
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He always accepted the smallest invitation or the most insignificant present with outward signs of pleasure. |
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Slavery in Europe became economically insignificant with the horse collar, which made it efficient to use horses rather than slaves. |
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However, these intervals of gushiness are insignificant in the book as a whole. |
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In the 1650s radicalism turned back to its religious roots, fracturing into generally chiliastic sects of insignificant strength. |
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In this context, summer can seem merely like the brief and insignificant calm in the eye of the hurricane. |
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Sorry, it probably all sounds a bit over the top complaining about something so insignificant. |
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Many of the digital images in this overblown cautionary tale remind us of humanity's relatively insignificant place in the universe. |
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The seemingly insignificant scorpion, now moving under the shadows of the eagle's powerful wings, never even caught the bird's eye. |
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In addition to the important question of who receives the reports, other seemingly insignificant details can defang a proposal. |
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Perhaps it is not insignificant that, standing under E. Foecunda, the fruitful eucalypt, the nameless stranger offers Ellen an apple. |
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To women, things like that are of huge importance and can make your day, while to men they are insignificant. |
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You know, it could be one of those insignificant cases that he's prosecuted in the past, where, you know, somebody does a slow burn. |
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It probably comes down to a single line of code somewhere with a teensy tiny almost insignificant bug in it. |
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Both these events were very insignificant in the scheme of things and received almost as little attention then as they do currently. |
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But even as she stood next to Mrs Leer's huge, sturdy figure, she seemed small and insignificant. |
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The mass media have reported every single act of violence, however insignificant, making conjectures about its terrorist nature. |
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The strongly pungent artemisia family is silvery and soft, but its forms develop into sprawling shrubs whose flowers are insignificant. |
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I think it's a salutory consequence, hardly insignificant, but it's not Job One. |
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I could see from the way his sea rod bent right over that it was not an insignificant tiddler but, rather, something of worth. |
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You may mention insignificant findings briefly after providing significant findings. |
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The owner of the pitiful castle, a small, insignificant knight was very welcoming. |
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They are observed, your Honour, for a number of reasons, some of which may be historical, but basically they are mere insignificant courtesies. |
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And the only way to do it is to keep writing, no matter how insignificant you think your mere words are. |
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On one side, it reduces the people depicted to mere entertainment value, insignificant frogs meant only for visual dissection. |
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The journey only made him seem pitiful and insignificant in the general scheme of things. |
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He was insignificant, so that no one would remember or notice, which is why he was perfect for his job. |
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Though Lawrence serves as an example of what might have happened to Macdonald, he is historically insignificant. |
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In practice, greater accuracy can only put off the evil day by an insignificant amount. |
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Jesus is saying to us that we matter in God's eyes, we are not insignificant. |
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Because you are insignificant, the emperor in your heart can only be the dictator of one person, and that person is yourself. |
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I may not have the ability to hide Rose or sneak her away from the dark wizard's lethal intent, but I was insignificant. |
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We're both ardent American fans of yours who enjoy obsessing over minute and insignificant details. |
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In some places this process was for a time so minute and insignificant that it escaped detection. |
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It would show that while we are insignificant in the universe, we understand how we came to be. |
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It looked enormous, and even if you accept the police figure for some obscure reason, 45,000 is hardly an insignificant number. |
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Rather, it was built to impress man, bowl him over with its magnitude, and remind him what an insignificant twit he really is. |
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Why should those people give them respect and they are insignificant, you know, in their number and in their impact, you know, to the community. |
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Far from being insignificant, these cultural points of reference triangulate our locations with respect to strangers. |
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Systemic bioavailability secondary to lung bioavailability definitely occurs, but the contribution is insignificant. |
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The casting of a man in the role of Miss Pink had no apparent intended significance, yet it could hardly be insignificant. |
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We become stuck in the sameness of reality, because if reality is concrete, obviously I am insignificant. |
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That the question turns on the meaning of a passage from Scripture is not insignificant. |
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They deem insignificant sins that the church considered monstrous only a few generations ago. |
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The flowers seem small and insignificant during the day but at twilight they glow in the fading light and look beautiful. |
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Nonetheless, despite the seemingly narrow focus, this outline is hardly insignificant. |
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Vast changes in US agriculture have shrunk the number of full-time commercial farmers from millions to a statistically insignificant few hundred thousand. |
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The particles found at Sandside Bay are radiologically insignificant. |
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So insignificant, but I was walking home very late and in my rush almost barreled into a woman who was intensely trying to fish out some candy from a pesky wrapper. |
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Even when he excelled at his favourite hobby of banger racing he was an also-ran, a man with a reputation of being shy, introverted and insignificant. |
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Rendered only somewhat individual by almost insignificant pencil numbers along the edges, the rows and columns form a visually disturbing base latticework. |
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The list price of the car when new is insignificant in today's terms. |
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It bears small, rather insignificant flowers with a collar of white-veined deeply toothed bracts above impressive prickly glaucous greyish-green leaves. |
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Almost everything he wrote still holds a central place in the piano repertoire, and a not insignificant proportion of his work is playable by averagely skilled amateurs. |
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Excises, tariffs, export duties, and taxes on particular goods have become relatively insignificant sources of state revenues in these advanced nations. |
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In fact, most of the false rumors they tracked on Twitter showed low to insignificant propagation. |
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Leonarde's relative disinterest in her corporeal state could be linked to her proximity to the beatific vision, where such considerations would become insignificant. |
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Two thirds of the bomb tonnage of the five year air war fell in February, March and April of 1945, most of it on militarily insignificant targets. |
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Differences between these groups and their topographical and demographical features do exist, but they are insignificant for the scope of this paper. |
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Somehow their flaws seem insignificant in the face of their tenderness toward each other. |
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To those unaccustomed to the machinations of the UN, this may seem like yet another insignificant and toothless resolution. |
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These are just heaps of noble materials sheathing insignificant forms and insipid patterns or inappropriate functions that could have been rejected. |
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Even though a TIA, which is sometimes called a mini-stroke, doesn't last very long and leaves no permanent effects, it's far from an insignificant event. |
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The agency stress that it is illegal to keep something, however small or seemingly insignificant, from a shipwreck without advising the Receiver of Wreck. |
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Hardaway, Richardson and Ward were minor players, even insignificant but what happens if a megastar says something wrong? |
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The change was due to a rather insignificant cold front and upper trough crossing the western sub-continent and shifting whatever lay ahead of it eastwards. |
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He was small and insignificant but had a firearm trained on my navel. |
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Already a not insignificant number of tribes have become unreachable. |
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Being statistically insignificant, Alexander and I had no role models, we had no peer pressure. |
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The titbits his own hunting skill provided were insignificant when set against his voracious appetite, and it was the duty of his parents to make up the difference. |
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By contrast, the flowers of Acorus calamus from the family Aracea are relatively insignificant and its most appealing distinguishing feature is its foliage. |
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Dermal exposure of ricin is of little concern because the absorption amount is insignificant unless it is enhanced with a strong solvent such as dimethyl sulfoxide. |
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Consistent with the principle of parsimony, we then use the correct standard errors of the parameter estimates to drop the highly insignificant variables. |
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They were not going to let a small child, a small girl who was insignificant and worth nothing go around disrupting the order and disgracing their family name. |
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Its stature can be gauged by the not insignificant fact that after 33 years, it still inspires revolutionists and inflames the anger of renegades. |
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All that is insignificant compared to what his family has faced. |
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No matter what the outcome, no-one should ever feel that their view is too small, unimportant or insignificant for them to put it forward and have their voice heard. |
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Watercraft skills are a necessity but any swim, no matter how small or insignificant, is worth a try, even if only for a couple of minutes or a single trot. |
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I now realise that charges are but an insignificant issue compared to the ongoing uncertainty about what am I going to get when I reach retirement. |
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We were too insignificant to worry about and the war hurt everybody. |
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I am very scared, and very lonely, and I feel petty and insignificant. |
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Never believe that you are too insignificant to make a difference. |
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They bow right over so their face is touching the ground because they know they are insignificant in the grand scheme of things, they are miniscule compared to God. |
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It involved handing them a sheet with two short and insignificant phrases. |
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In other words, the differences between a Yankee, a Southerner, and a plainsman were insignificant compared to the differences between a German, a Frenchman, and an Italian. |
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Then I called up Winston Churchill, who, at the age of 114, had been assigned to an insignificant position at the British consulate in Los Angeles. |
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While the Vatican promises plenary indulgences for various pilgrim activities, such spiritual benefits play a rather insignificant part in the overall plan of activities. |
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The first time I got naked with this guy I was dating, I went fishing for compliments and made a comment about a totally insignificant part of my body. |
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Disrespecting the Bing basically meant copping to an insignificant offense in order to avoid taking responsibility for, or admitting to, a far graver one. |
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They seem insignificant among the bodies burnt to charcoal, or flayed to muscle and skin, half covered in rags, scenes of a terrible and continuing horror. |
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My reply is that the beauty and elegance which adorn them are evident and convincing proofs of their not being so insignificant as we presumptuously suppose they are. |
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A Gitana will enter a shop, and purchase some insignificant article. |
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It is difficult to start writing about something as seemingly insignificant as a few buttery globs of oil paint, but my addiction to those colourful panes runs deep. |
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Because the blocks themselves are so glorious the signatures are almost insignificant, until that is, one begins to look at the history or provenance of the quilt. |
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As in the case of the story of Severo in Garcilaso's second eclogue, critics have generally found this section largely irrelevant and insignificant. |
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In general, a large P value would indicate that the contribution of the parameter to the model might be insignificant. |
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Looking up at the stars always makes me feel so small and insignificant. |
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Henry's criticism of the ontological monism of Western philosophy does not mean that every form of objectivation is insignificant. |
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He sacrificed nothing, laboring to get even the most seemingly insignificant element of every record perfect. |
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The fascia lata may act as a replacement for Dartos fascia, although this is probably clinically insignificant. |
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In the late 15th century, England was a relatively insignificant state on the periphery of Europe. |
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Recreational fishing accounts for an insignificant portion of the spiny dogfish harvest. |
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So if an insignificant sideliner from Africa can see through the fog, then I am sure all of them must realise the same thing. |
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These changes are insignificant if a local datum is used, but are statistically significant if a global datum is used. |
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In a calibrated representative agent model, Lucas shows a very insignificant welfare gain from the elimination of business cycles. |
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In addition to arguing that the lack of a brass hat makes him feel insignificant at the various military committee meetings he attends, Col. |
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The slaves were subject to punishment of maiming and unlimbing for insignificant faults. |
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Both brothers saw the Channel reward of only a thousand pounds as insignificant considering the dangers of the flight. |
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No viewpoint or detail is too insignificant to be exhaustively examined. |
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In the first place, twenty people are demographically insignificant. |
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The road was being resurfaced and repainted so the cost of repainting the line was insignificant. |
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As with the paternal DNA of African Americans, contributions from other parts of the continent to their maternal gene pool are insignificant. |
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Perhaps the Byzantine writers considered the Frankish horse to be insignificant relative to the Greek cavalry, which is probably accurate. |
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The Tories became a minor, insignificant faction, and the Whigs became a dominant and largely unopposed party. |
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In theory, they were represented in the English Parliament, but since this body was never given real powers, this was insignificant. |
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The grave is insignificant by the standards of the cemetery and easily missed. |
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Maritime transport inside Lima city limits is relatively insignificant compared to that of Callao. |
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Overoptimizing the source code of a computer program may yield insignificant performance gains while making it difficult to read and maintain. |
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Death often occurs suddenly between the fifth and seventh days of illness, when only a few insignificant skin lesions are present. |
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At the same time the Ornithodira, which until then had been small and insignificant, evolved into pterosaurs and a variety of dinosaurs. |
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Cicero's Dream of Scipio described the Earth as a globe of insignificant size in comparison to the remainder of the cosmos. |
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However these ideologies are all very marginal and politically insignificant during elections. |
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This chuck has the not insignificant merit of being easily wipable and oilable. |
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Peaks with low prominence are either subsidiary tops of some higher summit or relatively insignificant independent summits. |
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He declared that Montfort deserved no spot on holy ground and had his remains reburied under an insignificant tree. |
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Due to belief in the indestructibility of the soul, death is deemed insignificant with respect to the cosmic self. |
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Whatever irregularities occurred were accidental and insignificant. |
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It remained insignificant for over a century, overshadowed by older and more powerful states, such as Assyria, Elam, Isin, Ehnunna and Larsa. |
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He helps us to understand the insignificant points which mark the rapid undercurrents of the seemingly sluggish soul of Khalid. |
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This is not an insignificant observation considering the economic impact that these patterns have with, for example, the omiyage practice of Japanese overseas travelers. |
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It's got plenty to make them blanch if and when it is shown them, although the New York State censor board okayed it with insignificant scissorings. |
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Furthermore, the Cape was unpopular among VOC employees, who regarded it as a barren and insignificant outpost with little opportunity for advancement. |
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Man is no longer an insignificant accident in an immense and indifferent universe, but the very center and foreshoot of the vast evolutionary process. |
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As none came with the coach from Deadwood, I suppose the amount of funds was insignificant. You can't tell, though, for the stage company is liable to play possum sometimes. |
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In fact, the number of supposed disappearances is relatively insignificant considering the number of ships and aircraft that pass through on a regular basis. |
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God particularizes, enfleshes, God's very self to an insignificant woman, in an insignificant place, through an insignificant religious tradition. |
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Such things are insignificant details compared to the main goal. |
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These in turn resulted in increased food resources for native species of fish with insignificant alteration of the macroinvertebrate community structure and trophic pathways. |
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These small and indeed insignificant things only began to become significant for me after the whole Vienna period which was at the same time inspiriting and depressing. |
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The same as me, when I learnt the trade there were one thousand and one things that seemed insignificant in that job, but they all amounted into one big thing. |
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Variations in turnout between elections tend to be insignificant. |
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In group 1, hemodynamically significant PDA was defined in 13 patients, clinically significant PDA was defined in 2 patients and insignificant PDA was defined in 5 patients. |
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The apparently insignificant constellation Antlia lies just south of Hydra and borders Vela to the north, lying along the branches of the Milky Way. |
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Volcanoes belch an impressive array of organic chemicals into the air, but ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons are an insignificant part of that mix, a new study finds. |
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Skilled people will be needed to pick out what tiny insignificant nothings will become intergalactic trends that end up making gazillions of spondulicks. |
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Hanging between endlessly insignificant labor and death, she monumentalizes the fate of Athenian women and more generally all subjects denied civic benefits and public voice. |
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The team found insignificant amounts of organophosphate insecticides used to control boll weevils in runoff from either the Bt or non-Bt cotton sites. |
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Others contend that women mistreat one another because of hyperemotionality, leading them to become overly invested in insignificant nuances and causing them to hold grudges. |
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And it is equally impossible, no matter how much you deplore the extravagances and improprieties of his works, to make him into an insignificant one. |
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Kinetochore analysis of MN from all groups revealed only an insignificant increase in the kinetochore-positive MN compared with unexposed control cells. |
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The rarity and aperiodicity of large recruitment events in oyster populations is well known and rarely are they so insignificant in the succeeding history of the population. |
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Even though these cartoon yobbos are completely insignificant and are the subject of most people's derision, they can leave a fiscal mark because of the damage they cause. |
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