The phrase "as not relevant" is not correct in standard written English.
It can be used when indicating that something does not pertain to the current discussion or context, but it should be rephrased for clarity.
Example: "The previous points can be dismissed as not relevant to our current objectives."
Alternatives: "as irrelevant" or "as not applicable".
In an ethical dilemma one could classify one's previous experiences as potentially distorted (quality assessment) or as not relevant for the case at hand (relevance assessment).
On the talk-show circuit yesterday, Mr. Lazio tried to dismiss these actions as not relevant, but his record will surely be thrown back at him.
He added: "Before Tate Modern was built there was a sense that contemporary art was at the periphery of things, on the edge and even seen as not relevant to British life.
The economy remains the top issue on the minds of voters, the poll found, and the ads were dismissed as not relevant by one poll respondent, Dana Hogan of Cincinnati.
"Very often young people reject couture as not relevant anymore," he said, "but I've realized that whether you're in a minimalist house or a punk house, couture is part of a whole psychology of the last several decades".
But the more this goes on, the more we end up in a vicious spiral where those who are disaffected by politics because they see it as not relevant to them or actively damaging them (predominantly young people) decline to vote.
Each study was marked as "relevant", "not relevant", or "maybe" based on the provided information in the paper and the goals for this systematic review.
He added, "I am not going to comment on the 'FBI' material as it is not relevant to this case".
Full-text was then obtained, reviewed by two reviewers, and independently categorized as "relevant" or "not relevant".
This phase is not described here as it is not relevant to this study.
5.3 % of the discovered interactions were classified as most probably not relevant.
