Once an unavoidable part of communication over distance, the phone number is quickly receding into irrelevance.
The governments of Congo and Rwanda, backed by MONUC, agreed to squash, curb or harass the FDLR into irrelevance.
They sink into irrelevance because no one wants to administer the death blow.
He implies that all experts have their seasons and then dwindle into irrelevance.
The main risk to Ms Merkel is that she could lapse into irrelevance.
Now Meg Whitman is trying to pull off a rather different trick - stopping a computer industry titan from slipping away into irrelevance.
It did no less than force Transmeta into irrelevance (See "Transmeta Defies Bad News" and "Dog Of The Day: Transmeta").
Without that, Mercosur may drift into irrelevance, with the trade links between its members no stronger than those that each individually has with third countries.
Apotheker says he does not think Windows will fade into irrelevance.
And with some senior liberals like Count Otto Lambsdorff, an ex-economics minister, and Hans-Dietrich Genscher, an ex-foreign minister, not standing for the next parliament, many pundits expect the party to sink first into irrelevance and then oblivion.
Fearing that the UN was sliding into irrelevance, Kofi Annan, its secretary-general, set up an international panel, mainly of former heads of government and ministers, which late last year suggested sweeping reforms (see our profile of Mr Annan).
Its slide into irrelevance continued.
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There are undoubtedly many others that fall into the category of future irrelevance as well.
His political opponents are descending into the depths of political irrelevance.
It has the potential to knock Dish off its orbit and into the deep dark space of irrelevance.
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