Public opinion, however, is basically irrelevant at this point.
And the way that cons, car and cdr are implemented is basically irrelevant.
Together they learn that the true meaning of Christmas is basically irrelevant in the down-and-dirty world of politics.
But this is a moral argument, rather than a commercial one, and as such is basically irrelevant.
The sad truth is that the actual historical reality of Italian organized crime in the United States is basically irrelevant by now.
After several hours of wide-ranging conversation, they all agreed that the rhetoric and tactics of the Free Speech Movement were basically irrelevant to their fight.
No surprise, really — it took very little analysis to see that the latest moves were basically irrelevant to the real problems.
But Clinton is also not wrong when she argues that in the larger scheme of things, the speeches are basically irrelevant.
While food replacement beverages have been around for a while in the guise of things like Ensure or Slimfast, they've traditionally been targeted at older people and women, that is, people who are basically irrelevant to "tech bros".
Because to do so would involve him in enormous complications that are basically irrelevant to his point, whereas - ahem - leapfrogging straight over these difficulties to look at the equilibrium in which all frogs maximize their chances given what the other frogs do is a very parsimonious, sharp-edged way of gaining insight.
It's important to note, by the way, that the fraction of US government debt the Chinese own is basically irrelevant here; if the Chinese decide, say, to sell a bunch of stocks and buy government bonds instead, this raises the fraction of government debt they hold but doesn't hurt the international investment position at all.
