Until the Russian Revolution of 1917, Yakutsk remained an insignificant provincial outpost.
But by the standards of the Greek and Roman worlds, Judea was a kind of insignificant backwater.
It means treating humans not as insignificant observers of the natural world but as central to its workings, elemental in their force.
I am a poor insignificant creature, not worth the cost of keeping; and I don't see that I can do a single thing to entitle me to his regard.
The influence of the party among the workers is insignificant.
It sounds insignificant, but it was the biggest such gain since 2003.
The overthrow of this insignificant fortress became highly sign- ificant in the history of Russia and the world.
Likewise, there are no insignificant ministries in the church. Some are visible and some are behind the scenes, but all are valuable.
The discontinuity can be insignificant.
Something as seemingly insignificant as a freshly opened jar or coffee can also add to a person’s happiness quotient.
The real problem is the hundreds of thousands of other parts, some as apparently insignificant as a bolt or a washer, that are simply not manufactured any more.
We have every reason to pour our rage on him, but he was so insignificant, so benighted that the most forceful outpouring of our wrath can elicit nothing but an indifferent look -- it is like playing a lute to a cow.
It's surely not insignificant that Milton's Comus contains more echoes of Shakespeare Comus and it's surely not insignificant that the Lady's first song is actually addressed to the nymph echo.
Theologically, I can see that God is all powerful, and that we are a small and insignificant part of the universe.
All this to say the workload is not insignificant.
Problems that once would have been sloughed off as insignificant and not worth interfering with the pleasure they find in each other get taken more seriously, and conflicts multiply and grow.
And why did the vaunted Japanese educational system play an insignificant role in stemming the country's recession?
Instead, I found much of what I found in New York: lawyers spending needless time fighting over insignificant issues.
The international and local media ought to ask themselves whether they let a few incidents of violence overshadow the fact that the protests overall were insignificant.
This means nothing that happens in your life is insignificant.
Likewise, there are no insignificant ministries in the church.
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