How To Use Irrelevance In A Sentence
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This is one race in which betting is close to being an irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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September 13th, 2009 at 5: 05 am computerist: This irrelevance blows UCD through the roof simply from the fact that these organisms are each carriers of prescribed "blueprint" information slowly but surely waiting for their next "release" state.
Behe, Common Descent, & UD
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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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Pouring out a remarkably viscous mixture of irrelevance and self-gratulatory dimestore rhetoric, the racist National Post blogger "Raphael Alexander" (not his real name) takes a poke at me for my remarks about Michael Coren yesterday.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Many of these problems may simply fade into irrelevance when the new rules come into force.
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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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Screw the native born stuff — given the right set of exigencies, that is one quick SCOTUS decision away from irrelevance?
Cheeseburger Gothic » And now, Gentlemen, down to business.
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Without taking this risk, the potential for our prophetic communication role to fall into the abyss of irrelevance is very great.
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Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.
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This is ironic, given all the rhetoric about the incompetence and irrelevance of the public sector.
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Clarke joked about that yesterday in tickling the ribs of a critic who had once reported his 'inexorable slide into irrelevance', a beautiful phrase immolated in the post-win victory exchanges.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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They both seemed somehow outdated or irrelevant, passionate about causes that verged upon irrelevance in modern life.
Catching Up « Tales from the Reading Room
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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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Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
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But this year things seem to have turned with the World Social Forum hardly gaining any coverage because of its increasing irrelevance while the Davos bunfight got almost as much coverage as the Iraqi election.
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The Patriotic Front has been a political irrelevance.
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Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.
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Certainly, if she is looking for the modern threat to Scottish Protestantism, the Catholic Church is an irrelevance.
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No other car has the ability to make the daily stresses of driving disappear or simply become an irrelevance.
The Sun
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Like the United Nations, it will simply wither of its own irrelevance.
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Many of these problems may simply fade into irrelevance when the new rules come into force.
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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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Rawls's critics argue that this attests to the irrelevance of his ideas.
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At The Golden Rule there was a response about the irrelevance of distinctions such as orthodoxy and heresy, canonical and extracanonical, when it comes to historical study.
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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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Investors almost ignored the figures as an irrelevance.
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Without taking this risk, the potential for our prophetic communication role to fall into the abyss of irrelevance is very great.
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The irrelevance of modern Marxism was brought home to me at the biggest meeting I attended.
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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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The label destroyed John Kerry, and Romney's propensity to change his mind makes Kerry's switches look tame to the point of irrelevance.
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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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He said people were the core of the defence capability today and in the future and if recruiting shortfalls and high loss rates were not addressed then Defence could decay to the point of irrelevance.
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To them the identities of their victims was an irrelevance by race, colour, religion or creed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vibe I got off of Gary--who, note, claims to be of the Left--is the same obnoxious one that drove me away from the Left in the States, namely the sophomoric insistence on the irrelevance of seemingly superficial differences.
Confusion
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To me, his main point is that the great clash of civilisations is over - socialism (in all its forms, whether sydicalism, anarchism, communism or national socialism or other) has been consigned to irrelevance.
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To them the identities of their victims was an irrelevance by race, colour, religion or creed.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sigg sin of irrelevance sin of worshipping false labels siting solar sports standards
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Any book on any subject risks irrelevance or smallness compared to this behemoth.
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No other car has the ability to make the daily stresses of driving disappear or simply become an irrelevance.
The Sun
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Two years ago eco models were a sales irrelevance and no more than a green gesture from a handful of car firms.
The Sun
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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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They do not look for, do not see, and do not achieve insight into their fatal flaws - arrogance, overweening pride, hypocrisy, ineptitude, and, increasingly, irrelevance.
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The talk of warrants is a complete irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.
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Particularly among young Americans, continuing the ban will put marriage on the road to cultural irrelevance.
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No other car has the ability to make the daily stresses of driving disappear or simply become an irrelevance.
The Sun
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He gave six reasons for its increasing tendency toward mediocrity and irrelevance.
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a pithy essay on the irrelevance of the notion of authenticity and the "animistic" attitude that has taken shape in response to the boundless online population of modified images;
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So, the political irrelevance of our subjects did not diminish our desperation.
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The sales figures of any particular vintage are almost an irrelevance.
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Then, for a while, people sniggered at us and called us an irrelevance.
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In its literary form this is analogous to the realism effect, the technique of vraisemblance: it is the irrelevance of certain items in a story to its narrative that communicates the effect of the real: why would they be described at all if they were not "true"?
Is Literary History the History of Everything? The Case for 'Antiquarian' History
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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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It is a complete irrelevance as to whether he is 100% ready.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nor can the threat of epiphenomenal irrelevance be simply dismissed as an obvious non-option, since at least some forms of consciousness have been seriously alleged in the recent literature to lack causal status.
Bunny and a Book
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The presidency is beginning to appear a political irrelevance.
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The alternative is to join the PC industry in a long death spiral into irrelevance.
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The Tories, however, have moved swiftly from being an irrelevance to becoming strangely fascinating.
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The views of British rabbis, however, are an irrelevance in Israel.
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But, on his account, the availability of a court was an irrelevance.
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They dance along the knife-edge of self-parody and total irrelevance, but they never topple over.
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The use of it merely reminds its users of the irrelevance of their discourse.
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Many of these problems may simply fade into irrelevance when the new rules come into force.
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Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.
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Was the Senate an irrelevance in the governance of the empire?
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Personal pride in the quality of the work you did became a sentimental irrelevance.
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Claims are made about the total irrelevance of humanism to the secularisation process.
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This ridiculous "radicle" rant reveals its own radical irrelevance.
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No other car has the ability to make the daily stresses of driving disappear or simply become an irrelevance.
The Sun
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Life changes, social and family demands, irrelevance or sheer boredom were all as important.
Times, Sunday Times
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He warned unions they would become 'an irrelevance' if all they did was oppose change.
The Sun
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The presidency is beginning to appear a political irrelevance.
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The party now looks in danger of becoming a political irrelevance.
The Sun
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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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Any other course risks a slow descent into irrelevance.
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Two years ago eco models were a sales irrelevance and no more than a green gesture from a handful of car firms.
The Sun
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It also helped contribute to the growing irrelevance of the evening network newscasts.
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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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Don't say the money has become an irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sterling focuses on seven reasons we should all be panicking: the climate; intellectual property; currency speculation; the insurance market; the ageing population; the increasing irrelevance of nation states; the flight from reason/science, with refuge taken in superstition and religionism.
Panic in the streets, panic in the skies, panic on the underground, panic pukka pies « We Don't Count Your Own Visits To Your Blog
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This is one race in which betting is close to being an irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before the party chooses its next leader it needs to find a new raison d'être or become an irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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And irrelevance, ultimately, will be the policy's undoing.
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It does bring home the power of Mother Nature and how she can reduce all our technology to complete irrelevance.
The Sun
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It could make the difference between leading the world to better health or retreating into irrelevance.
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Most of the criticism was levied at the admittedly odd choice of a very 1940's film noir-ish photo, the antiquated use of the word 'drawers' and the total irrelevance of the headline in relation to its subject matter.
Rachel Lloyd: The Power Behind Policing Fashion
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The art historians are accused of irrelevance; the curators are accused of dumbing down.
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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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It is run by an ex-army martinet absurdly out of touch and absent-mindedly rooting about in irrelevances.
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We had our own plunge pool and time seemed a complete irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Many highly trained professionals can attest to the irrelevance of evolutionary theory.
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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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Or face irrelevance and oblivion.
The Sun
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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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They were an irrelevance to the thrusting, spitting avant-garde artist.
Times, Sunday Times
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I can tell you without a doubt … I’d allow myself to be staked out on top of a fire ant pile for three days before I’d have appeared at this sycophantic exercise in foppery, irrelevance and pathetic grandstanding!
Thank God Joe Biden was at the beer summit. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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But this is not to dismiss his vision as an irrelevance in the forging of a nascent science.
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The rest of the test was something of an 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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NASA research has pretty much been legislated into irrelevance in facilitating progress in the commercial sector.
Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch
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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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Today this scholarship is threatened with dogmatism and, consequently, political irrelevance.
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In our situation, positions that either advance the dictates of rapacious global social relations, or propagate the irrelevance of the national question and an adventuristic struggle against these global relations, are a sure recipe for the defeat of the National Democratic Revolution.
PEOPLE'S POWER IN ACTION PREFACE TO THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF THE ANC
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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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Without those polarised goggles, Avatar Day would surely be an irrelevance and Avatar just another cornball sci-fi fantasy about alien monsters on a faraway planet.
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The trade unions are a massive irrelevance.
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Her age is an utter irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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We had our own plunge pool and time seemed a complete irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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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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Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.
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By calling the Malays not to be “bachul” or “wimp” and to “bangkit” or to rise, the newspaper is showing its irrelevance and outdatedness of rhetoric.
Planet Malaysia
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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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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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An even deeper problem than the perceived illegitimacy of privatization was its frequent irrelevance.
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But the drivers are becoming an irrelevance in a sport consumed by its own intellectual prowess.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sympathy is an irrelevance - we need practical help.
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Sympathy is an irrelevance - we need practical help.
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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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An even deeper problem than the perceived illegitimacy of privatization was its frequent irrelevance.
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We had our own plunge pool and time seemed a complete irrelevance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having marginalised itself into near-irrelevance under a 'disorganic' leader, the UNP is in a hopelessly self-destructive mode, driving itself to electoral extinction and its supporters to political destitution and deepest despair.
Groundviews
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Moral philosophers often ignore empathy as though it were an irrelevance outside their province, a matter for psychology perhaps rather than philosophy.
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In our situation, positions that either advance the dictates of rapacious global social relations, or propagate the irrelevance of the national question and an adventuristic struggle against these global relations, are a sure recipe for the defeat of the National Democratic Revolution ...
ANC Today
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The days of the civilised embassy building are over (at least for certain nations) and architectural quality is an irrelevance.
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As someone who rails prolifically against the irrelevance of political science to actual politics, I would have been glad to talk about whether blogging may help make scholarship more relevant.
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At times like these, sport seems irrelevance.
The Sun
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Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.
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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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Professor Ilya Somin counters Professor Siegel’s argument that textualism is ultimately doomed to irrelevance because its “inexorable radicalization ... will cause it to lose the interpretation wars.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Debating Textualism
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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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The upsetting part of this story is the absoluteness of technology and the irrelevance of humanity.
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To others it is a complete and utter irrelevance.
The Sun
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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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In our situation, positions that either advance the dictates of rapacious global social relations, or propagate the irrelevance of the national question and an adventuristic struggle against these global relations, are a sure recipe for the defeat of the National Democratic
ANC Today
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The presidency is beginning to appear a political irrelevance.
