The FLN was left looking like a political irrelevance, taking only 15 of the 231 seats.

But his speech, inserted into The Congressional Record, had the air of political irrelevance, like a tribute to cars with fins or torchlight political parades.

Buchanan then asserts that Clinton, once having emerged victorious, relegated the black members of his own administration largely to positions of political irrelevance:

Hawaii, cursed to political irrelevance by geography and the Electoral College, has long been in the deep-blue end of the Democratic pool.

The Lithuanian Communist Party, faced with political irrelevance, declared its own independence from Moscow.

One is that he suddenly found himself staring into the abyss of political irrelevance.

This sounds like just the kind of absolutist formulation that condemns academic theorists to political irrelevance.

But as other groups emerged, Pamyat lost its pre-eminence on the extreme right and sank into political irrelevance.

Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist expressed some sympathy for Staten Island's fear of political irrelevance.

Either we take determined and united action for Europe's ecological, economic and political revival, or we risk economic stagnation and political irrelevance.