While proud of his reputation as a pundit, a prose stylist and an impressive speaker, Mr. Cooke is prouder still, he says, of his ability to single out the small gesture, the terse quote or the insignificant event that speaks to larger issues.
This is far from insignificant; when it comes to issues that have a tangible impact on people's lives, what happens to their football team matters.
"I hope that with this apology I will become as insignificant as I should be," he said, "and that we can return to the issues that do divide us but that we can resolve in a better fashion".
There is one teensy, insignificant technical issue that I almost hesitate to bring up because it's sooooo not a thing: even if there is a new nominee, the ballots have all been printed and so a certain, ah, someone's name is probably still going to be on them.
No mention was made of the thorniest of issues that divide them — the foremost being the disputed region of Kashmir — but the statement nonetheless represented a small but not insignificant breakthrough.
He cautions, however, that the discovery of each disease gene is certain to raise concerns over counseling, privacy of information, and the availability of medical insurance-not insignificant issues.
Proponents of S.E.L. say these feelings aren't insignificant issues to be ignored in favor of the three R's.
I used my panel, titled "Online Media Freedom and Ethics," to raise issues that colleagues and others still take for granted or gloss over when they should be paying attention to these seemingly insignificant details.
Unfortunately, Brazil's election results showed that the environment was an insignificant issue for most voters.
There is also the not insignificant issue of the Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy, and Peace negotiating hard and trying to reach an agreement that finishes with both men feeling as if they have won.
