"End," to Obama, will mean a residual force of 10,000 troops for at least three and possibly ten years, to include drone strikes across the border in Pakistan, which is the real and unspoken rationale for remaining in an area of peripheral interest to Washington.
It is clear that for many philosophers, the topic of animal consciousness is no longer only of peripheral interest.
In general the submissions that are rejected fit into three categories: those that are only of peripheral interest to language testing; methodology that is unclear or difficult to replicate; or a topic that has limited academic worth.
Social media may be all the buzz, but in reality "only a few firms get it [and use it], it's of peripheral interest for most", says Tom Austin at technology consultancy Gartner.
It may be expected that their impact in the venue is diminished, possibly because the publication is of peripheral interest, or the Matthew effect [17] is absent, since the author has not already built up a reputation at that venue, and her work is less likely to be noticed.
Anderson's quest for his 300th Test wicket may be of only peripheral interest compared to the state of the match and the immense curiosity there will certainly be about the man who is not there.
This business of looking manly even developed its own theoretical rationale, the concept of "credibility": if we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest is at stake, we will be still more violent.
By Tuesday, all this was of only peripheral interest to those people attending the party, who glommed onto anyone with a Sixpoint affiliation to offer their compliments.
His residual 11percentnt stake in Diageo - the combine formed from the GrandMet-Guinness merger - is now of only peripheral interest to LVMH but could still come in handy.
Additionally, military force is also a surprisingly poor tool for shaping the behavior of other countries, except when only their peripheral interests are involved.
