Word: mootness
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...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...
Should nuclear weapons be abolished? Impossible, he says. Without nuclear weapons the U.S. would always be a superpower because of its economy. But the Soviet Union would not be a superpower without the Bomb. In any case, the point is moot...
...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...