Sentence examples for off the significance from inspiring English sources

Told that Brett had shrugged off the significance, Jerry Gardner said: "It might be more pressure than he's letting on.

Toledano himself has brushed off the significance of the lack of designer claiming that customers don't care who designs the Dior clothes.

Still, Crosby brushed off the significance that it was he who scored the first goal, in the opening period of a game the Pens needed desperately.

James and Wade shrugged off the significance of the victory, with James saying they were not "trying to make a statement to anyone".

Paul O'Neill, Mr Bush's first treasury secretary, memorably quoted Mr Cheney as writing off the significance of budget deficits altogether: "Reagan proved deficits don't matter".

But Labor, which has been campaigning on, among other things, the promise of Abbott being ditched by his party if the Labor vote was strong enough, has brushed off the significance of the change in prime minister.

So, in these accounts, the crucifixion takes place off-stage, without any of the significance later attributed to it.

bFigures quoted in this paper are rounded off if the significance of the number is not altered by the approximation.

Screening off thus goes both ways, and since few would want to deny causal relevance to the physical properties, we should not let screening off impugn the significance of mental properties either.

Forster shrugged off the personal significance of Celtic's run.

To write off the social significance of a wedding invitation as "work-related" is an insult to the couple and their family.