Sentence examples for insignificant have from inspiring English sources

Even the economic effects of the troops' presence, while not insignificant, have been mostly ancillary.

E.A. Benians, in the Cambridge Modern History, was perhaps the most generous: "Few men personally insignificant have made more stir in the world".

Changes, albeit clinically insignificant, have been seen in the levels of nelfinavir and nevirapine following the use of DMPA (Cohn et al., 2007).

Carr's disarming faith in the power of his own good intentions to render confrontation insignificant has served him well in Mozambique.

But we know from other drawings that this man's liver was cirrhotic; we'd therefore expect that veins around the umbilicus – usually insignificant – had enlarged to provide a bypass for blood around the hardened liver.

After all, "How many word-warriors ever return / from midnight's waste and ruin?" It's not the transcendent that persists, but the lowly actual: "Whatever is insignificant has its own strength, / Whatever is hidden, clear vision.

Mr Putin, who has dismissed Politkovskaya's work as "extremely insignificant" has not met any of her family and did not say anything about her murder until two days after her death.

Every experience in your past, no matter how seemingly insignificant, has had a special part in creating the person your are today.

Determination of S/G ratios in dicots, where p-hydroxycinnamates are relatively insignificant, has resulted in much better agreement between methods.

Constructed in this way, the same tool of medical dating that defines Interviewee 23's pregnancy as developmentally "insignificant" has the capacity to position other women's pregnancies very differently.

There are people in our world (the comedy seems to say) so despised, so marginal, that we have never even heard of them, or have rejected and forgotten them; but these insignificants have it in them to solve all problems.