There is no relevance between time and occurrences, save in a vague, general way.

In other words, the stretching-forward, without in any way slackening, may fall into the background of our consciousness, while other matters, the relevance of which may not be instantly apparent, are suffered to occupy the foreground.

The scene, too, might have given the play a moral relevance which in fact it lacks.

A thought, to be thought at all, must seem worth thinking to someone, it must convey the meaning he intends, it must be true in his eyes and relevant to his purposes in the situation in which it arisesi.e., it must have a motive, a value, a meaning, a purpose, a context, and be selected from a greater whole for its relevance to these.

Take the Web: none of us can hope to read even a fraction of all the pages on the Web, but by analyzing the link structures that bind all those pages together, Google is able to actually tease out machine-generated conclusions about the relative relevance of different pages to different queries.

It may not be without relevance that Cheng came from a Muslim family.

The fact that a significant section of the readership skips reading the editorial should make the editors sit up and assess the relevance of the editorials they write, or get written on their behalf.

Together with Devika Sequeira, he is behind the recently launched and yet-unnamed forum that meets monthly to discuss issues of relevance and concern to the media profession.

The relevance of this question will appear from the fact that they were together on the steamer whose boiler burst on the Mississippi, killing my brother and causing injury to the cousin such that he committed suicide a month later.

SCOTT, R. B. Y. The relevance of the prophets.

SCOTT, R. B. Y. The relevance of the prophets.

In fact, however, its relevance is great for, as a consequence, Krishna the prince acquires as many female companions as he had enjoyed as a youth.

His figures have a shallow prettiness of manner, stamping them once again as products of a style which, in its earliest phases, was admirably suited to recording dramatic action but which had little relevance to either religion or romance.

This was manifestly the view taken by Mr. Marchmont, for, during a pause in which the chart was handed to him, he remarked somewhat stiffly: "I am assuming, Dr. Thorndyke, that the curious story you are telling us has some relevance to the matter in which we are interested.

They still paid lip service to the Constitution, an instrument that had relevance during the life of the defunct Republic.

Relevance as well as brevity is the soul of wit.

[Transcriptor's note: Page numbers from the original document have been posted in the right margin to maintain the relevance of the index references.

And yet, on casting about for a reason, we can find that after all and in a certain sense there is one forthcoming, of some considerable amount of relevancy.

Yet, although this seems a more straightforward arrangement for the words of the sentence, as such, it is not clear that such a comment on the beauties of Rome would have any great relevancy in its immediate context.

Relation N. relation, bearing, reference, connection, concern, cognation; correlation &c 12; analogy; similarity &c 17; affinity, homology, alliance, homogeneity, association; approximation &c (nearness) 197; filiation &c (consanguinity) 11; interest; relevancy &c 23; dependency, relationship, relative position.

fitness, aptness &c adj.; relevancy; pertinence, pertinencey^; sortance^; case in point; aptitude, coaptation^, propriety, applicability, admissibility, commensurability, compatibility; cognation &c (relation) 9. adaption^, adjustment, graduation, accommodation; reconciliation, reconcilement; assimilation.

Bennington's chaos had not yet crystallized to relevancy.

16,' where it is indeed spurious, though the relevancy of it might very well be maintained.

As to the relevancy or irrelevancy of the clause in Matt. xxii.

I confess I find it difficult to conceive anything more relevant, and equally so to see any special relevancy, in the vague general statement 'Many were created but few shall be saved.'

My answer is that I do not doubt the relevancy of that inquiry, but that the treaty has not been concluded with the sanction of Belgium, for we have advisedly refrained from any attempt to make Belgium a party to the engagement.

That is a judgment of which all who strive for power must admit the relevancy!

This attitude prevented Hamilton himself from doing full justice to his powers and learning, and its influence could be seen in Cairns alsoin his delight in studies the relevancy of which was not always apparent, and in a certain fastidiousness which often delayed, and sometimes even prevented, his putting pen to paper.

" Much I marvell'd this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore;

"I see that there is a possible relevancy.

Like all that is truly good in literature, it will be seen that this narrative was not for its own time alone, but for the future, and has its relevancy to events of the present day:[30] "1.

That these gates were connected with the religion of the country, is of no relevancy in this matter.

When, however, after appreciating as we are bound to do Mr Mill's declaration of subjective sentiment, we pass to its logical bearing on the controversy between him and Mr Mansel, we are obliged to confess that in this point of view it has little objective relevancy.

All that we can do more, is to endeavour to be impartial critics of our own theories, and to free ourselves, as far as we are able, from that reluctance from which few inquirers are altogether exempt, to admit the reality or relevancy of any facts which they have not previously either taken into, or left a place open for in, their systems.

At first I was unable to perceive the relevancy of the matter to the title, for it seemed to be a journal of Challoner's private life; but later I began to see the connection, to realize, as Challoner had said, that the collection was nothing more than a visible commentary on and illustration of his daily activities.

Then I sat him up and made him drink some coffee from the cup, and, all the time, kept up a running fire of questions, which made up in volume of sound for what they lacked of relevancy.

" "Now, now, Winwood," protested Marchmont in an agony of uneasiness as to what his partner might say next, "I must really beg youerto refrain fromwhat Mr. Winwood means, Dr. Thorndyke, is thaterwe do not quite perceive the relevancy of theseahobservations of yours.

" "Probably not," said Thorndyke, "but you will perceive their relevancy later.

"I beg your pardon, Colonel," said the man, not seeing the relevancy of this observation.

It gives you the Scripture parallel passages bodily, and saves the trouble of turning backwards and forwards to find the marginal references and to examine their relevancy.