The case naturally provoked a lot of commentary, much of it beside the point. |
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But even if we discount the possibility of dishonesty, what he is saying is simply beside the point. |
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Unfortunately, there will be no reporters to witness our greatest deep space exploration yet, but that's beside the point. |
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The fact that secular considerations also favoured this course of action is, of course, beside the point. |
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Whether we believe in capital punishment is beside the point, presumably those running these prisons think it's a fine idea. |
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Still, besting the opposition Democratic Party of Japan and its uncharismatic leader, Naoto Kan, is practically beside the point. |
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Well, actually, in the City it was usually raining, or hailing, or giant-asteroiding, but that's beside the point. |
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Perhaps you won't love it with such disturbing ardour as me, but that's beside the point. |
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It's also rubbish, boring and largely made-up, but that is beside the point. |
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That's a little beside the point, though, because my article was focusing on whether commuter Internet access was viable and feasible. |
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Elliott's thematic gear shifting and tempo changing make the album's separation into eight tracks largely beside the point. |
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But any such intuition is utterly beside the point, irrelevant as well as impolite. |
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That Goethe is looking at parts of the same organism, while Darwin is treating of entire organismic forms of related groups is beside the point. |
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The triumphalists hadn't predicted it either, let alone noticed the hollow centre of this great victory, but that is beside the point. |
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Far from seeming hard-nosed and realistic, they suddenly appear beside the point, if not immoral. |
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But even asking whether TV duopolies and newspaper-TV combos can produce better news may be beside the point. |
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The benefits of animal experiments are beside the point if experimenting on animals is immoral. |
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The one-note limeyness of the dish made cilantro, serrano and onion almost beside the point. |
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Alas, all of what you're saying makes rational sense, but I think it may be totally beside the point. |
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It wasn't like she was a wet blanket exactly, well perhaps she was but really that was beside the point. |
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The van Gogh olive grove landscapes in this gallery at first glance seemed beside the point. |
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That his Social Security proposal wasn't going anywhere was almost beside the point. |
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In the latter case, as in much of the book, the skyscraper as a work of architecture is beside the point. |
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That human rights enjoy such prestige is a matter for rejoicing, but it is somewhat beside the point. |
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Any attempt to justify and rationalize this is probably beside the point. |
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You may or may not hold these as values, but that is beside the point. |
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But whether they are Russian, or former or defected Ukrainian military, is in some ways beside the point. |
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But I suspect it's largely beside the point because once you're to that point you're into a process of legislative horse-trading and conference committees. |
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Frankly, this sort of literary speculation is largely beside the point. |
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Whether or not Clarke ultimately catches sight of the hare is beside the point. |
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I don't support the occupation myself, but that's beside the point. |
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The fact that the law has not been used for 12 years is beside the point. |
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What happens to the fans in a particular city is beside the point. |
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At the beginning of this chapter I suggested that Tocqueville saw America's particular and irreproducible circumstances as both crucial and beside the point. |
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Quibbling about vocal details seems somehow beside the point of what Ms. Norman is about. |
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But to marvel at copiousness would be to misconceive achievement: all that arithmetic is, however impressive, beside the point. |
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Whether or not their decisions would pass muster in a poll or focus group is precisely beside the point. |
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As one could infer from the presentation of Mr. Bouton and others, the question is almost beside the point. |
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Mr. Speaker, we are still hearing things that are completely beside the point. |
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Whether I am satisfied with what they concluded is beside the point because I wasn't making a recommendation. |
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We need to support production in order for our communities to thrive, but that is beside the point. |
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In my view, not only is that rather limited, but it is also completely beside the point. |
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I am not sure that I follow the logic of his reasoning on this, but that is beside the point. |
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It should have been the railways, and the court case would have been won, but anyway that's beside the point. |
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All this to tell him that I am a little disappointed to see us get into this debate, which, in fact, is beside the point. |
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All of the other issues at the time about who did what and when they did it were quite beside the point. |
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We can talk about crass politics and partisan politics, but all of that is totally beside the point. |
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The fact that my husband has never exercised his rights was beside the point. |
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However, the debate surrounding the Act made clear that whether or not it would survive a Charter was beside the point. |
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One must understand that when a drug is criminalized, whether the drug harms the user is legally beside the point. |
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But whether these gussied-up chicken nuggets helps boost sales, foot traffic or market share is almost beside the point. |
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Granted, that team may solely consist of one guy whose dad dropped him off at the GO-station with 50 bucks and a couple of toonies for hot dogs, but that's beside the point. |
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Of course he actually has no idea where Tom lives, or indeed who Tom is, but that, in his poor muddle-headed, fluffy old mind, is beside the point. |
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Debates about the legacy of the games can seem a little beside the point rather like arguments about whether this sublunary life has any meaning if there isn't another one after it. |
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Yet the truth or falsity of the lurid report is almost beside the point. |
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Whether or not transcendental meditation has any scientific basis seems rather beside the point. |
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But as applied to Daniel's explicator, Jasper, considerations of apocalyptic quietism are both obvious and beside the point. |
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Before the appropriate court, the United Kingdom will submit that Ireland's contentions about the specific justification of the MOX Plant at Sellafield are beside the point. |
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His many charitable donations are beside the point. They do not make up for the fact that he stole the money to begin with. |
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The fact that the political dynamics of policy and budget decision-making will not always conform to prescribed process, at least not on the insistence of the public service itself, is beside the point. |
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The tonnage and types of fish eaten by seals is beside the point. |
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Judges in the British law courts used to tell lawyers who spoke beside the point or quoted irrelevant cases that they might as well say that Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood. |
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Wilhelm had written to Nicholas stating that the question of Russian interests in Manchuria and Korea was beside the point, saying instead it was a matter of Russia. |
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That such a market of carbon unproduction will ultimately have virtually no impact upon the trajectory of global carbon emissions is almost beside the point. |
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