Obama advisers described the Geffen remarks as an insignificant blip and said they saw no political danger in letting them stand.
Grunfeld said Tuesday she may have misunderstood the context and intent of Johnston's remarks, but that fact is insignificant.
All doctors and two nurses interviewed described how they were not concerned about deferring consent for a blood sample: "It's just a bit of blood" (P11, female doctor, focus group 4), remarking that the blood sample was small and insignificant in the context of the wider emergency interventions and the blood sampling that a child's clinical management would require.
Mr. Putin's chilly response to her death — he was silent for days, then remarked that "her influence on political life was extremely insignificant in scale" — colored his image in the West.
In what may have been his most incendiary remarks on Monday, Mr. Ahmadinejad belittled what he characterized as the insignificant history of Israel, compared with the long history of Iran.
Hollow empathy, such as being told "I know how you must feel," often backfires because such ritualized remarks have the effect of dismissing the victim's true feelings as insignificant, the researchers found.
The utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham couldn't have devised a better panopticon for policing public statements on issues both great and insignificant; everyone everywhere could be watching (we both hope and fear!), and even our most thoughtless remarks never go away.
When a major sporting event like the Super Bowl or the World Series comes around, their Facebook feeds reliably fill with snarky remarks about how ridiculous it is that people care so much about something so insignificant.
THE following results, which I have recently obtained by a discussion of temperatures obtained in kite and captive balloon ascents, may be of interest in connection with Prof. Clayton's letter (NATURE, February 4) and Mr. Dines's remark that at a height of 1 km. the daily temperature variation becomes insignificant (NATURE, June 17).
Some respondents remarked: " I think appeals mechanism is important because sometimes very important things are left out, instead insignificant things are included in the plan.
His remarks appeared to contradict statements just a day before by the leader of the rebel army, Abdul Fattah Younes, who had called the attacks insignificant.
