"If it becomes common practice for non-compliant countries to evade public scrutiny, Cites will cease to be relevant".
Still, according to his admirers, he has never ceased to be relevant, though the reasons for this have varied over time.
Esther is "psychotic" by definition, but the definition is merely a descriptive tag: by the time we learn how she got to be "psychotic" the word has ceased to be relevant.
It's a testament to changing social attitudes and the power of soap operas to bring about the change that by last night, Hayley's birth gender had long since ceased to be relevant.
Architecture can be a factor in shaping the programme of work that happens there, but once it starts to dictate it there is a danger that it will cease to be relevant, have anything to say to ever-changing audiences or be a place where the most interesting artists want to work.
Some "faith schools", however, do not discriminate, in some cases because the law does not allow them to; others have a religious character now but may well, when taking on academy status with the possibility of growth, wish to free themselves of the restrictive status of being "of a religious character" which has ceased to be relevant to them.
That "Cats" was once a hip, had-to-be-there ticket, that it won seven Tony Awards, including best musical, and a Grammy for best show album, ceased to be relevant years ago; its legacy is as New York City's longest-lasting cultural paradox, a paradigm for the restaurant that, in Yogi Berra's genius phrase, nobody goes to anymore because it's too crowded.
I might cease to be relevant to pop culture as my hair turns gray and falls out, but Coachella will endure because it can always count on new generations of people eager to reclaim their vitality and bands equally as eager to cash a fat check.
"The transition that the Middle East is going through at the moment will be a testing ground whether these ideas will survive, will come back with a vengeance or will cease to be relevant," said Nelly Lahoud, a senior associate at the Combating Terrorism Center at the United States Military Academy.
Let's hope whatever the FCC seems unwilling to share comes out before it ceases to be relevant.
