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The fact that the cuts would have gutted the film – as if Woody Allen were forced to remove Barcelona from Vicky Cristina Barcelona – was apparently irrelevant.
What is more, democracy is irrelevant to those who are already committed terrorists.
Historically, information in China was controlled by the Communist Party, making popular opinion irrelevant.
A final disclaimer: believing that fundamentals do not always pin down asset prices is not the same as believing they are irrelevant, much less that current US fundamentals are in good shape.
The ECB’s defenders would say that such an outcome is purely hypothetical – and irrelevant – for there is no conflict between stabilizing inflation and sustaining the appropriate level of economic activity.
This argument is not irrelevant; monetary policy probably has some effect on wage bargaining.
This argument, too, is hardly irrelevant: higher inflation today must not be permitted to change inflation expectations in the medium run.
Some collapse and, unable to reach food or water, soon die, their fate irrelevant to the economics of the enterprise as a whole.
Pious Western sermons about the need to form a unified, democratically elected government sound utterly irrelevant, given the extent of social and political fragmentation.
Anything that looks like a transnational issue is immediately deemed irrelevant to national concerns, and any coordinated international action is ridiculed and held up as a failure.
And, alas, China’s ruling elites are almost certain to dismiss China 2030 as politically undesirable and irrelevant.
It is apparently irrelevant that such technology might not work, is riddled with practical challenges, and carries the risk of future leakage, which would have major social and environmental consequences.
Putin has been unable to counter America’s development of “prompt global strike,” which would render Russia’s nuclear deterrent irrelevant, by enabling the United States to hit targets worldwide with conventional weapons within an hour.
With such small audiences, they are all but irrelevant.
Whether that past ever really existed was irrelevant.
Indeed, since Putin returned to the presidency in 2012, Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev has been all but irrelevant.
Contrary to what some right-wing economists argue, such free services cannot make increasing income inequality irrelevant.
Measured productivity growth would be close to nil, but also irrelevant to improvement in human welfare.
Including such provisions would be a mistake – not least because exchange-rate issues are intrinsically irrelevant to trade deals.
For example, brain scans show that when people hear a statement that they believe is true – the veracity is irrelevant – they get a dopamine hit.
Hate speech and violent ideology are not irrelevant.
American courts in the nineteenth century were notably corrupt, sometimes incompetent, and often irrelevant, yet stock and bond markets grew, and continent-spanning firms rose up and got the financing they needed to operate, expand, and industrialize the US economy.
But perhaps this is irrelevant.
Superficially, international law lacks the drama of a presidential race, and can undoubtedly seem stuffy at best, and irrelevant at worst.
A single standing EU army in lieu of Europe’s largely irrelevant and inefficient national armed forces, with a budget of around 1% of EU GDP – some €130 billion – would instantly become the world’s second leading military force, after the US, in terms of resources and, one would hope, capabilities.
It is therefore refreshing to see a careful econometric study take on an assertion by Paul Krugman, perhaps the most influential left-leaning US economist, that “the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 was irrelevant to the subprime boom.”
In the US, unions are largely irrelevant and decentralized deal making between firms and workers is the rule.
Financial stability was obviously a smokescreen: taxpayers were forced to repay even the debts of a bank that had already been closed (and thus systemically irrelevant).
With dissent suppressed, the authenticity of citizens’ loyalty becomes irrelevant.
Of course they can’t, but that is largely irrelevant.
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