Word: mooted
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...immigration, but met even more success by painting Cannon as a representative of a Republican establishment that had become too profligate and too moderate for their constituents. At the state party convention in May, Chaffetz received 59% of the delegates' votes, 1% away from making a primary runoff moot...
...although the argument has an appealing ring to it, it is moot. Other universities and colleges, as Owen acknowledges, simply do not have the kind of alumni wealth that makes Harvard’s capital drive—the largest attempted by a college—possible...
...state. Georgia officials, after all, never had to try to prove that Osborne's lawyer was not a bigot, or even that his feelings about his client shouldn't matter one way or the other. Instead, they were the beneficiaries of court rulings that said the issue was moot for procedural reasons...
...perhaps the case that all of my worry and concern is a moot point. Perhaps the committee is getting a good balance of opinions and views among the students and faculty. But we have no way of verifying that, since nobody outside the committee knows what they are up to, the same way nobody outside the Ad Board knows how they come to their decisions, a fact that makes it quite difficult to argue with the forces for status...
...There are no signs of that so far. In an gesture of defiance, the AKP is considering passing a constitutional amendment that could render the case moot, making it harder to ban parties and reducing the penalty for the charges applied. But the court could argue that such a change, enacted while the case is pending, is not admissible. In that event, Erdogan - who faces a five-year ban from politics should the AKP lose - could call early elections, or even urge his supporters to take to the streets. "The man is a fighter," said one leading businessman...