Although these extracolonic lesions may occasionally explain the symptoms, on the other hand, incidental findings that ultimately prove unimportant may prompt additional tests that are inconvenient, costly, and even harmful.
True, the 1950's special effects are less than dazzling, but that just proves how unimportant they are to the human story.
But they died in a side of the arena that proved to be unimportant, given it was not to decide the outcome of the campaign.
The storyline of a liberal organization going after "the military" in a partisan fashion proved irresistible, however unimportant it ultimately was compared with the issues at hand.
If public pressure rises to prosecute one or more bankers, there is the not-unimportant question of what charges could be proved.
The last time Microsoft and the government settled an antitrust case, in 1994, Mr. Gates insisted on one detail -- the ability to add new features to the Windows operating system -- that seemed unimportant to the government at the time but later proved to be the basis for the current suit, which contends in part that Microsoft illegally combined its Web browser with Windows.
The variables that are predicted by economic theory to be important for happiness prove to be relatively unimportant.
In any event, producing multiple models with staged introduction of predictor and control variables implicitly treats all as equally important or unimportant until proven otherwise.
A negative result does not, however, prove the phenotype is unimportant, because the assays might not adequately reflect adhesion in vivo.
Also, when new plant varieties are produced by plant breeders without regard for all enphytotic diseases that occur in the same area to some extent each year (but which are normally of minor importance), some of these varieties may prove very susceptible to previously unimportant pathogens.
