Sentence examples for make moot from inspiring English sources

The first would be to make moot concerns about the effectiveness of monetary policy.

A mayoral adviser has acknowledged that the Council action would "probably make moot" Mr. Giuliani's challenge -- a point the mayor appeared to concede yesterday.

Arturo Zavala Haag, a Swiss-Mexican photographer and architect who divides his time between Paris and Mexico City, thinks that the fast-spreading word about Cartagena's charms will soon make moot any official admonitions.

The 40-to-4 vote appeared to make moot a lawsuit by Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who sued last month to throw out the 4-to-1 formula, which he has declared too expensive.

The legislation, backed by an intense lobbying campaign by the Taubman family and passed by a vote of 24 to 14, would make moot the $1.74 billion bid for Taubman Centers from the mall owners Simon Property Group and Westfield America Trust.

The bill, which was passed by the House of Representatives, would make moot a ruling by a federal judge that blocked the founding family of Taubman Centers from voting its 33.6percentt stake in the company against the offer by Simon Property.

Swalwell returned the favor later in the hearing, observing that "I was delighted to hear the chairman's remarks about how ITER could get us to a carbon-neutral source of energy … and really make moot a lot of the back-and-forth debate in this town about fossil fuels versus other sources of energy". .

Chicago Sun-Timess Thomas Conner complimented the harmonies "scooping, gliding multi-tracked harmonies that almost make moot the idea of a Destiny's reunion".

Providing sexual privilege to women makes moot all the arguments for sexual equality.

Nor is it made moot by continuing local recount cases, or the possible protective action by the Republican State Legislature.

This point was made moot by the outbreak of World War II (1939 45) and the founding of the State of Israel in 1948.