Voorbeelden van insignificance

• He started to have a creeping sense of his own insignificance.

• The insignificance of last night's match was signalled by the absence of so many star names from the team.

• Toward the latter half of the century, the smaller states gradually dwindled down to utter insignificance.

• Once developed, the alien idea proved a potent motif for fictional explorations of the singularity or insignificance of humanity cultivated by the extraterrestrial hypothesis.

• Their fate emphasizes not only the insignificance of human resistance to the struggle, but also the latent power of unsolicited natural selection.

• Moreover, as among men, this activity largely receded into insignificance with the progression of age (3.2 % for the age group 40 and more).

• Tests indicated insignificance for squared and cubed forms of independent variables, and a better fit for the linear versus a log or other non-linear models.

• As the opportunity value of continued existence shrinks, the corresponding duty fades to insignificance and eventually disappears altogether.