For the record, British people have been doing this sort of thing naturally and without the aid of technology for centuries – that is, issuing a sidelong response during an awkward encounter, a protocol that escalates, in times of outright conflict, to the tangential screw-you.
If you're very, very lucky they'll give it a tangential mention at the end of a report.
However, another court dismissed an indictment against two Ukrainians, in a case in which the only American link was the tangential involvement of a federal agency.
I wonder if the strange tangential election of their new leader will reinforce that Labour scepticism.Update on Tuesday 28th:Just a quick update, because it is important to fix in place the ground truth close to an event.
Mr Brin ("the strategy guy") has calculated that Google's engineers should spend 70% of their time on core products (ie, the search and advertising engines), 20% on relevant but tangential products, and 10% on wild fun that might or might not lead to a product.
I'm sure she'd understand that obscure and tangential efforts to deter the PA from adopting negotiating strategies that are uncongenial to US interests trump such peripheral issues as feeding starving kids.
One results from the fact that the stylus exerts a frictional force that is tangential to the groove.
The subject was one of those issues that attracts bigots, scaremongers and polemicists, with a vanishingly tangential relationship to truth, logic and courtesy.The article described the row as "the most tedious dispute in the Balkans".
Banks complain that regulators have gone too far by suggesting that the hiring of officials' relatives counts as bribery.In April an American court dismissed charges against two Ukrainians, in a case in which the only American link was the tangential involvement of a federal agency.
He was not nailed down by the press on his political alliances with Mr Blagojevich.Reporters had only a bit more luck drawing out Mr Obama's actual (tangential) role in the mess, and his plans.
Back in 1992, after a another set of disappointing results, we suggested that Sony's diversification into tangential product lines, such as Mini Discs and film-making, was damaging the firm's performance back then as well.Sony: Double or quitsTOKYOMay 30th 1992WHEN the chips are down, the gambler in Sony invariably comes to the fore.
