Sentence examples for were made irrelevant from inspiring English sources

In the amoral universe of TV, such distinctions were made irrelevant by the fact that "The Man Show" was a hit.

So the persistent efforts by NATO -- founded to oppose the Soviet Union, which no longer exists -- to expand right up to the border with Russia have caused great suspicion among Russian politicians, even the idealistic democratic reformers I worked with in the 1990s who were made irrelevant by the advent of their old sometime ally Putin.

"The executive order will be made irrelevant by better legislation," Mr. Occhiogrosso said.

If you do want to dabble in the world of mock drafts, there are oodles of them waiting to be made irrelevant by the nonevent they are forecasting.

For sellers of the lowest-priced content — anything under 75 cents — micropayments have been made irrelevant by the easy availability of online advertising, Mr. Peabody said.

That number would quickly be made irrelevant in May when the Milwaukee Bucks, which Forbes had valued dead last, at four hundred and five million dollars, sold for five hundred and fifty million.

In all these cases, a generation of executives created or inherited successful business models and continued to tweak them as they were gradually being made irrelevant.

The throat (including the glottis and epiglottis) is made irrelevant by a momentary closure of the back of the tongue against the soft palate, which seals it off from the airflow.

The artist Bob and Roberta Smith said CP Snow's "two cultures" distinction of 50 years ago – that society was split into science and the humanities – had been made "irrelevant by the emergence of the power of digital technology".

The overwhelming majority of Muslims reject such trends, but they feel that their views have been made irrelevant in the eyes of alienated youngsters by unjust policies at home and abroad.

The feeling that parliament had been made irrelevant was increased by violence in the streets (almost on a Belfast scale) and by the way the government tolerated the growth of armed groups on the far left that were openly preparing for civil war.The armed forces moved only when it had long been clear that there was a popular mandate for military intervention.