Word: moot
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...former colleague and fellow Rehnquist clerk, Gregory Garre. "I don't think he brought it to the supermarket, but he would have it with him in the office, and he'd bring it home at night." Roberts would amass 300 questions and answers for a major case, then stage moot-court sessions to rehearse them. Richard Garnett clerked for Rehnquist more than a decade after Roberts. "If we heard that Roberts was going to be arguing, everybody would go down to watch because he was just so good," Garnett recalls. "It was kind of like if you heard that Tiger...
...both instances, the Crimson survived despite substandard defensive performances that were in the end rendered moot by clutch playmaking—be it the three-point second half against the Bears or the thwarted two-point conversion and field goal push against the Big Green—mustered in the game’s deciding moments...
Comparisons may be moot, especially among three boats that have had thoroughly dominant seasons. One thread, however, weaves these champion crews together: Holzapfel and Howard have rowed in each one, and they’ve never crossed the line in second place...
...Garner, that the U.S. priority in Iraq was to win basing rights for a long-term U.S. military presence that he compared to the role played by the Philippines as a coaling station to the U.S. Navy over a century. Iraqi democracy, however, appears to have rendered them moot.) There are more immediate concerns, however, than long-term basing rights...
...each producer could pump. In October the members agreed on an overall output ceiling of 16 million bbl. per day. Any new plan would reshuffle quotas within that limit, but several countries want their quotas increased. Said Subroto: "The potato was too hot to handle." The point is moot. As demand has dropped off, OPEC members now pump only about 14.5 million bbl. daily because that is all they can sell...