1 His idea was rejected as an irrelevance.

2 Sympathy is an irrelevance - we need practical help.

3 The Patriotic Front has been a political irrelevance.

4 The presidency is beginning to appear a political irrelevance.

5 Many of these problems may simply fade into irrelevance when the new rules come into force.

6 Age is an irrelevance for most jobs.

7 The irrelevance of such an attitude is obvious.

8 Rawls's critics argue that this attests to the irrelevance of his ideas.

9 So,[] the political irrelevance of our subjects did not diminish our desperation.

10 Schooling was seen by many parents as an irrelevance at best; at worst as a downright intrusion.

11 the irrelevance of the curriculum to children's daily life.

12 The irrelevance of his answer puzzled the audience.

13 This problem also explains the near - total irrelevance of the United Nations General Assembly.

14 Missile defence has a political momentum that makes a supposedly awkward question such as whether it really works pale almost into irrelevance.

15 Your tutor may be generous to a fault but can not reward irrelevance or peripheral knowledge display. 3.

16 This is ironic, given all the rhetoric about the incompetence and irrelevance of the public sector.

17 Owen's own first chosen vehicle, the co-operative community, had become an irrelevance and was seen to be impracticable.

18 No equivalent figures are given for Cramlington because of the irrelevance of the information given for Cramlington before the late 1970s.

19 But this is not to dismiss his vision as an irrelevance in the forging of a nascent science.

20 Meanwhile, three other candidates demonstrated for a national television audience their growing irrelevance to the struggle for the nomination.

21 Republicanism was a gathering storm at a time when the monarchy seemed an expensive irrelevance to the questions of the day.

22 Student power, Danny the Red, Tariq Ali, debates on the irrelevance of the education system.

23 Without taking this risk, the potential for our prophetic communication role to fall into the abyss of irrelevance is very great.

24 Pensions policy accompanied long-term labour-market trends, which increasingly confirmed the economic irrelevance of elderly workers.

25 Moral philosophers often ignore empathy as though it were an irrelevance outside their province, a matter for psychology perhaps rather than philosophy.

26 Although most of them were being paid so little that employment had become a farce, an irrelevance.

27 What can I say in answer to this charge of irrelevance?

28 So implausible, so achingly out of touch are they, no amount of Toytown trickery can disguise their ancient irrelevance.

29 In such a context Mr Bush's grandiose schemes are not only unwelcome; they are an irrelevance.

30 For most lay Catholics, the debate over Church policy has long since passed into irrelevance.

31 A President who identifies leadership with public opinion polls dooms himself to irrelevance.

32 Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.

33 The fear of irrelevance haunts Euro - types, for all their public boasting about Europe's future might.

34 Through the academic history, there have been three major theories on the economic effects of dividend tax: the irrelevance theory, the traditional theory and the tax capitalization theory.

35 They have followed the same path toward specialization and increasing irrelevance.

36 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.

37 Irrelevance: This condition occurs when workers cannot see how their job makes a difference.

38 The fear of irrelevance haunts Euro - types[], for all their public about Europe's future might.

39 The alternative is to join the PC industry in a long death spiral into irrelevance.

40 The charm of canals lies in their survival in the face of irrelevance.

41 In failing to push harder to take on Goldman, the SEC again demonstrated its irrelevance.

42 Rhetoric may be a dirty word in modern architecture, because it implies waste and irrelevance.