of no account
Example Sentences
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The attackers’ manifest inferiority to Jones et al in terms of intelligence or comedy was of no account.
From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2016
As Dimbleby stresses, in 1942 the wishes of those who lived in this region "were of no account to the principal protagonists".
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2012
Such strategies were of no account so long as Germany stayed on the attack.
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012
But practical considerations are of no account in movies like this, which never bear the slightest resemblance to any known reality.
From Time Magazine Archive
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His life had certainly cost him enough in pain to make the world’s judgment a thing of no account.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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