Pharma just pays a "fee" that is insignificant in the face of their total profits.
For example, it has been suggested that the addition of two to three years of treatment (e.g., before the immune system becomes compromised) could be considered as insignificant in the face of what could be decades of future treatment [ 27].
Though an insignificant footnote on the face of it, Keith's 2010 book, No Redemption, a collaboration with writer David Pearce (Red Riding, The Damned United), would provide some of the most humanizing images of the dispute.
Google does something bad (accidentally or otherwise), admits to its mistake, then faces an insignificant punishment.
As a cisgender straight, female I've encountered my own fair share of situations where I learned being a young girl or adult woman came with challenges, but was always aware mine were insignificant compared to those faced by others.
Muni Diaries wonders, "If Muni were to implement such a system (forgetting how much it would cost to build), how exactly would they screw it up?" Considering how SMTA is already facing not insignificant budget deficit and the Central Subway project looks to be sucking up much of the agency's funding and attention over the next decade, even considering SMT's proposal seems like a pipe dream.
The mini-narratives are, on the face of it insignificant: a couple makes a trip to the supermarket; an overweight white man leans against a wall and smokes a cigarette; a black man mows the grass verge of a highway; the sun rises and sets in spectacular skies.
The main effect of the self avatar was insignificant; however, seeing the future face in the self-avatar condition led to an increase in perceived risks compared to other-avatar condition.
By 2008, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff declared it to be a "significant existential" one - carefully differentiating it, apparently, from all those insignificant existential threats Americans have faced in the past.
While this view does not imply that research with subjects who cannot consent is impermissible, it faces the not insignificant challenge of providing an account for why such research might be acceptable.
Compared with what you faced on the cross, what we face now is truly insignificant".
