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Germany’s not-so-secret ambition is to become a Magna Helvetia, a Big Switzerland – prosperous, stable, neutral, and ultimately irrelevant.

But I argued that this was irrelevant: making up the states' shortfall would cost the government nothing if the optimists turned out to be right, but it would be just the right medicine if pessimists like me were correct.

The correlation with O’Neill’s tenure was irrelevant.

This does not mean that national governments are irrelevant, or that they no longer hold life-and-death power over people’s lives; but cities make more of a difference in people's daily lives.

So long as the eurozone as a whole was relatively balanced, Germany’s surpluses were considered irrelevant – just as, say, Texas’s surpluses have never been considered an issue in the United States.

Prominent Asians, such as former Singaporean leader Lee Kuan Yew, are now warning Europeans that if they continue on their current course, Europe will rapidly become irrelevant for anything other than tourism and high-end real estate.

There is also a growing sense that India has forgotten how to accommodate dissent, that alternative viewpoints are considered entirely irrelevant.

The danger is that India could write off Europe as charming but irrelevant, a continent ideal for a summer holiday, not for serious business.

This does not mean that Rumsfeld’s Pentagon is irrelevant to American soft power.

They were quickly rendered irrelevant.

But the fact that he ran as a populist, talked about helping the poor, condemned the government’s performance, and acted almost like an opposition candidate are all irrelevant: he was the regime’s choice, and, in the end, he received official help even against rival hardline candidates.

Kaufman’s approach – with speeches on the Senate floor as a central feature – seemed irrelevant or even quaint to critics even a few weeks ago.

With Africa’s population likely to increase by more than three billion over the next 85 years, the European Union could be facing a wave of migration that makes current debates about accepting hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers seem irrelevant.

It shrank its budgets and began to downsize, and, while it was handed some new responsibilities in the meantime – surveillance over “currency manipulation,” in particular – its deliberations proved largely irrelevant.

Integration is irrelevant to that question, and, in those areas where deeper integration really would benefit Europe, it appears to be the last thing that national leaders want.

Ideology is increasingly irrelevant as the officer class scrambles to build vast personal fortunes.

Moreover, the World Trade Organization’s agenda will remain irrelevant and, in any case, deadlocked.

Advocates of a softer approach say that if the UN stays on the sidelines, it will become irrelevant; by participating in Iraq, it will build trust with America, so that the next time a dispute such as this arises, America will turn earlier to the UN.

When researchers show that some of our supposedly carefully considered choices and attitudes can be influenced by irrelevant factors like the color of the wall, the smell of the room, or the presence of a dispenser of hand sanitizer, their findings are published in psychology journals and may even make headlines in the popular media.

Remarkably, these values, shaped many centuries ago, when certain physical attributes might have been important, have survived in modern societies, in which such attributes have become largely irrelevant.

This is not just ancient history, irrelevant in the era of molecular biology: naturally derived compounds, such as taxol, still provide some of the most promising avenues for the treatment of cancers and other diseases.

That is true, but irrelevant.

So the nexus between values and interests is self-evident and renders the conflict over fundamental foreign-policy principles irrelevant.

Friction or no friction, OPEC has been, and will always be, irrelevant to market forces on the ground.

Oil production does not matter; exports do, which means that announcements of increases in oil output are irrelevant for prices.

Reinhart and Rogoff describe a “this time is different syndrome” during the pre-crisis boom, whereby these bubbles are allowed to continue for far too long, because people think that past episodes are irrelevant.

In the atomic and subatomic world, gravity is irrelevant compared to what else is going on, all of which can be described by quantum theories.

Policymakers commonly assume that what cannot be easily measured statistically is either inconsequential or irrelevant.

It is also especially ill-suited for children from poor backgrounds, who find much of what they are taught in the classroom to be irrelevant to their daily lives.

But the first statement is little more than a truism, and the second is falsified by Piketty’s own data, making the third irrelevant.

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