the country became a regular if uninfluential participant
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Yet it continues to scout itself out a worthwhile and not entirely uninfluential place in Canadian politics.
But only a handful of deputies, such as Sieyès and the prolix but still uninfluential Robespierre, believed that once the National Assembly had pronounced the monarch should have no veto at all.
Other Muslims were not interested in writing about them, since the Muslims of South-East Asia were regarded at the time as peripheral and uninfluential.
Individual Catholics, even comparatively powerless and uninfluential lay people, must accept some responsibility for the situation.
All of these books were ambitious, unorthodox, noteworthy, and yet ultimately uninfluential interventions from the margins.
Now, of course, there are a number of poets, by no means uninfluential, who read Chinese and Japanese and who are philosophically Buddhist or Taoist or both.
Tocqueville does not claim that this American point de départ was uninfluential.
When his greatest rival William Pitt formed a coalition with Newcastle in 1757, Fox was ‘bought off’ with the lucrative but uninfluential office of paymaster-general.
It was the mediocre graduates with uninfluential parents who would find themselves directed to their first job in some arduous region; to make sure they arrived their diploma was dispatched to their future place of work.
I wasn't raised in an especially religious home, attended a catholic school in the most unstructured, uninfluential way one can attend school, have no geographically close religious family… I don't know.
It makes no sense for Mr Blair to turn his back on Europe and become a junior, and probably increasingly uninfluential, ally of the US as it remakes the world.
The uninfluential columnists should be defined here.
You have requested us to advise you in relation to the likely current value of the entire share capital of Benfield, the value of 33% shareholding and the value of an uninfluential minority shareholding.
A new recognition of the irrational… was stifled by the conventional forms into which - with uninfluential exceptions - it was cast…
We would end up an impotent and uninfluential nation, just one voice among the many.
Admittedly that election was to the rather uninfluential position of rector of Glasgow University.
I have a feeling that Phillip wants to be oppressed by the government - it would be less painful to him as his current state: uninfluential and wholly irrelevant.
This Memphis group just might become the best uninfluential rock band at SXSW to ever sound like Velvet Underground.
While Graham is a popular figure in evangelical circles and neutral with the general public, Robertson is relatively uninfluential with evangelicals and unpopular with the general public.
I have never believed them to be uninfluential, whether peddling love, politics, sex, violence or corruption.