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.
We represented this pattern by means of an algorithmic index, i.e., a curve giving the average execution time as a function of the number of moves (recall that the numerical values of the curve are unimportant, given that it will be used only for correlation analysis).
A few steps away is the Rue du Bac Metro stop, not unimportant given Paris's increasingly fierce traffic.
It's not unimportant, given that 60 nations sent crews to the rowing in Beijing, and occasionally it pays off.
Whether a "ceremonial" prayer is really required to open a government meeting, yet alone makes any difference, seems a rather unimportant question given the serious challenges we face in this country these days but it does invite us to reflect on what is happening with regard to the separation of church and state -- one of the great innovations in governing.
Because of limited space, Ms. Brown had to leave behind most of her possessions, which seemed unimportant given her other problems.
Participants acknowledge that receiving research test results blurs distinctions between research and clinical care, but they dismiss such distinctions as unimportant given their desire for clinically relevant information.... and so this was a blurred line because they had said that we would get a result from it but it was also a research protocol we were contributing to.
This strategy was followed to maximise the numbers of cases on which final models were based, it having been noted (Table 1) that certain parental attributes, which fortuitously ultimately proved unimportant, gave rise to sizeable numbers of missing cases.
Given the PI, the weights of the individual predictors are unimportant.
He was given the job, temporary at first, of king of Transjordan, a land considered unimportant, except in its relation to Palestine.
