"Although displacement affects a very small minority of households, it cannot be dismissed as insignificant," they wrote.
"I do not want this nonissue of an insignificant memo written by a private individual and not considered credible by its lone recipient to undermine democracy," Mr. Haqqani said in an e-mail.
"Moreover, it is not, I think, insignificant," she writes, "that Jack Benny, born Benny Kubelsky, was a Jewish comedian". Why? "Gelatin as a product, and Jell-O as a brand, was much in debate among Jewish leaders," for some gelatin comes from very un-kosher things and yet Jell-O was popular in many Jewish homes.
This time Fonda was appearing not as a version of herself but as Dr. Katherine Brandt, a musicologist suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease, who was gripped by one last question: why did Beethoven, toward the end of his life, devote so much time to composing thirty-three variations on an insignificant waltz written by Diabelli, a composer of no great distinction?
"I don't think there's anything wrong with writing being insignificant," he said.
"Yes, but I only wrote insignificant things down," she said, avoiding any further questions.
Thus Schwarz and Milne [11] supplemented their rats with 500 µg Si/g diet and noted that lower levels of supplementation gave lesser and statistically insignificant results: they wrote, "… it seems that relative to other trace elements, the amount of Si needed to be quite large …." [11].
Higher pay is associated with only a small, statistically insignificant shift from volunteering to writing tax-deductible checks.
Goldman saw the militarization of Soviet society not as a result of armed resistance per se, but of the statist vision of the Bolsheviks, writing that "an insignificant minority bent on creating an absolute State is necessarily driven to oppression and terrorism".
"These are the things that make people's politics insignificant to me," Waltrip wrote in a text message.
Justice Scalia said that scattered anecdotes — "about 1 for every 12,500 class members," he wrote — were insignificant.
