Personal pride in the quality of the work you did became a sentimental irrelevance. |
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Of course, the main problem with Health Studies, apart from the hectoring personality of our teacher, was its irrelevance. |
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Any book on any subject risks irrelevance or smallness compared to this behemoth. |
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It could make the difference between leading the world to better health or retreating into irrelevance. |
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This article on the state of professional ministry is not an argument for the irrelevance of a newly constricted profession. |
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Claims are made about the total irrelevance of humanism to the secularisation process. |
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The irrelevance of modern Marxism was brought home to me at the biggest meeting I attended. |
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It also helped contribute to the growing irrelevance of the evening network newscasts. |
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The use of it merely reminds its users of the irrelevance of their discourse. |
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Today this scholarship is threatened with dogmatism and, consequently, political irrelevance. |
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Particularly among young Americans, continuing the ban will put marriage on the road to cultural irrelevance. |
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Consequently, they have been enabled to push back against their growing irrelevance, increasing their role in global finance. |
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Our core alliances, therefore, must evolve to meet the demands of this new era or they risk falling into irrelevance. |
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Practical approaches were also apparently undermined by the foreignness of apparatus and irrelevance of curricula in rural settings. |
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Without a healthy market to give the photographer clear direction, even the best work risks descending into a spiral of irrelevance. |
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The fact that the book is not especially well written or in any way plausible has almost become a trifling irrelevance. |
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However, Liberal Democrat support among this demographic may well prove to be an irrelevance in the coming General Election. |
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She says Moscow is headed on a path to isolation and irrelevance because of its authoritarian policies. |
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But you don't take the time and space in a mass-circulation paper to repeatedly bash an irrelevance. |
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The first was that the question of the lung function tests seemed to be an irrelevance where the injury was psychiatric. |
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The Tories, however, have moved swiftly from being an irrelevance to becoming strangely fascinating. |
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For most Indians, religion is very much a part of their everyday lives, and the question of atheism an irrelevance. |
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But this was, after all, the late 20th century and the rather antiquated British blasphemy laws were something of an irrelevance. |
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The days of the civilised embassy building are over and architectural quality is an irrelevance. |
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In such an atmosphere, the idea of legal safeguards for people accused of abuse becomes almost an irrelevance. |
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Or does he impinge on our current consciousness as a dandified dilettante admired by his own period but of utter irrelevance to ours? |
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A good point, and one that developers must address before the value of tags are diluted into irrelevance. |
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The upsetting part of this story is the absoluteness of technology and the irrelevance of humanity. |
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When it comes to winning arguments, they seem to think that the end justifies the means and that truth is an irrelevance. |
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He starts with a letter from a reader notable both for its irrelevance and its self-contradiction. |
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The irrelevance of the streamer headline in a world racked by wars and threats of wars alarmed some of the newspaper's well-wishers. |
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Liberal commenters seem to miss the irrelevance of class envy to the popular dislike of this tax. |
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The apostles of the New Economy declared the irrelevance of everything invented before the Internet, and of any skills other than their own. |
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Many highly trained professionals can attest to the irrelevance of evolutionary theory. |
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The sanctity of human life has been sidelined as an irrelevance in the Republic as blindly as in any paramilitary murder in the North. |
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He gave six reasons for its increasing tendency toward mediocrity and irrelevance. |
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Instead of burying themselves in ancient texts, they must understand the irrelevance of those texts to modern politics. |
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Perhaps if the politicians talked about race as if it was already an irrelevance it would hasten the day when it is. |
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An even deeper problem than the perceived illegitimacy of privatization was its frequent irrelevance. |
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It is a matter of irrelevance, at least to me, whether the grant was improvident or no. |
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As has already been seen, the Council's irrelevance can lead only to a world that exists beyond the bounds of the law. |
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It is, for one, a supreme irrelevance to an electorate more concerned about living standards. |
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Like the United Nations, it will simply wither of its own irrelevance. |
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That may be a good point in principle but it's an irrelevance in practice. |
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Across the board, the mixes manage to obfuscate the content by either sampling to the point of irrelevance, cutting lyrics, or just submerging them deep within the mix. |
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In some ways even worse than extinction would be the slow and gradual level of increased irrelevance in Canadians' lives. |
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But, on his account, the availability of a court was an irrelevance. |
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Had she not gone into the coalition and gotten something near the center of power, she would have quickly faded into irrelevance. |
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The young girl and the man of God between them manage the transformation of the Syrian commander, with the Israelite king as a narrative irrelevance. |
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The sales figures of any particular vintage are almost an irrelevance. |
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Was the Senate an irrelevance in the governance of the empire? |
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We've thought for a long time that the paper is on a glide path toward irrelevance, but it is a bit shocking to learn that its former editor in chief agrees. |
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One could just ignore the hyperbole and watch it follow similar groups down the path to irrelevance. |
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Even without artificial stupefiers like alcohol and narcotics to help them, people routinely achieve irrelevance by adhering to or seeking out a maladaptive schema. |
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It is not a question of the popping of champagne corks between Brussels and Strasbourg, that is an irrelevance if I might put it politely. |
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Prison, one sensed, had imbued him with an understanding of the irrelevance of personal possessions. |
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There's debate on this point, but Carpenter comes down mostly on the side of the charter's inadequacy, unenforceability, and irrelevance. |
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The Panel may limit or disallow the appearance of any witness or expert, or any part of their testimony, on the grounds of irrelevance. |
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The Londoners at a luncheon for peace talk about restaurants and dignitaries and matters of seeming irrelevance. |
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He represents the high-water mark of Ross Perot's Reform Party, which collapsed into irrelevance during the next decade. |
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In what now seems like a nanosecond, AOL declined until it was synonymous with business failure and irrelevance. |
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Either we are the product of a unique supernatural event in a universe of profligate overprovision, or else an accident of mind-numbing improbability and irrelevance. |
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State television is heading toward irrelevance if it is left as it is. |
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He cannot let his party drift into abject irrelevance, a place full of tubthumping blowhards who'd rather make noise than policy. |
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Although some of the younger delegates found Franklin a sentimental old fool prone to feeble-minded irrelevance, he was shrewd beyond their understanding. |
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If we do not act now, we will be sleepwalking into economic irrelevance, not to mention negatively impacting our environment and leaving a bad legacy for future generations. |
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Absence or irrelevance of supervisory staff. |
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Though British Conservatives are less gleeful about the euro crisis than they were a year ago, a sense of vindication informs talk of European irrelevance. That threatens their sense of perspective. |
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The Irish people's anger and disillusionment may have thrown a lifeline to Sinn Féin and rescued the party from total irrelevance in the Republic but its united Ireland project is more unrealisable than ever. |
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As a speaker in the Commons he often seemed to deploy a fiercely private logic, yet his carefully articulated, pedantic performances could make irrelevance sound prophetic. |
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What is the point at which a museum, at some quiet, unmarked moment, stops being a questioning, contemplative space at the heart of its city's intellectual and imaginative life, and becomes an irrelevance? |
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For 10 years CD members have used procedural arguments as a proxy for differences over substance, and as a result, the CD has come to the brink of irrelevance. |
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But you can address perceptions of irrelevance by describing how a significant portion of the learning that takes place is closely tied to organizational results. |
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It does not stop at a distance and does not yield to irrelevance. |
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The crisis has also shown the complete irrelevance of macroeconomic thinking of the last 30 years, based on deregulation, privatization and leaving everything to the market. |
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This Parliament proves its utter irrelevance by having a two-hour-only debate to discuss this matter with no possibility to 'catch your eye', thus allowing a limited number of Members only to make a contribution. |
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However, the transitional services accessed by Filipino caregivers in southern Alberta expose the irrelevance of standard settlement and integration programs provided by immigrant serving agencies. |
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Furthermore, we have to implement working methods that do not allow countries to singlehandedly bring work to a standstill, which ultimately will lead to marginalization and irrelevance. |
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There is also general agreement that assessment of relevance or irrelevance involves or requires judgements about probabilities or uncertainties. |
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So it would be ignored, discarded, thrown into the bin of irrelevance. |
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Canada has gone from a position of influence to a position of irrelevance. |
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The division not only marginalizes the humanities, he argues, but also contributes to the fractured nature of a college education and a nagging sense of irrelevance. |
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Perhaps even more significant to contemporary artistic production, the pair were among the first artists to reduce gender difference to near irrelevance. |
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In this, his sixth publication, he assembles a hodgepodge of topics ranging from health care delivery failures to the clinical irrelevance of the Krebs cycle. |
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There is less agreement about whether or not judgements of relevance or irrelevance are defensible only if the reasoning that supports such judgements is made fully explicit. |
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For example, relevant evidence may be excluded if it is unfairly prejudicial, confusing, or the relevance or irrelevance of evidence cannot be determined by logical analysis. |
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