increased importance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandimportance
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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importance
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/us/ɪmˈpɔːr.təns/
the quality of ...
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Nevertheless, the irrigation systems continue to function, due to adaptation of the local communities, especially theincreasedimportanceof local leaders.
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Theincreasedimportanceof the buoyancy contribution is an important change from the small contact angle case that we considered earlier.
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This change of scope re-ects theincreasedimportanceof knowledge modelling technology, both within and outside knowledge engineering.
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Theincreasedimportanceof professionals without strong partisan leanings is confirmed when the analysis is extended to the next most senior level, the corps commanders.
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The emergence of nation states and theincreasedimportanceof the state administration led municipal staff to endeavour to create supra-regional structures, namely national unions of cities.
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The singer's relationship with each individual instrument assumesincreasedimportancewhen the work is performed without conductor.
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Due largely to the discovery of hundreds of disease-related genes, genetic tests are assumingincreasedimportanceas predictive as well as diagnostic technologies (5;15).
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Theincreasedimportanceof the stock market in financing the growing economic sectors suggests that stock investments should be an important part of pension fund investment policies.
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This finding across the sample as a whole does not resonate with either perspectives on a 'breakdown' of networks of friends or theirincreasedimportance, as discussed earlier.
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Moreover, the shrinking role of the family and of employers in welfare provision has also increased old-age insecurity, and placesincreasedimportanceon public pensions.
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In many countries equal opportunities legislation has been stiffened andincreasedimportancehas been attached to minimum wage provision.
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Given this continuity with the past, the composition of sherd assemblages from individual contexts and whole vessels from burial contexts assumesincreasedimportance.
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In addition to theincreasedimportanceof the party label, we see another important factor: changes in partisanship and the party system.
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The growing intake of undergraduate students, theincreasedimportanceof contract archaeology and the public interest in prehistory, these phenomena are far from being unrelated.
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It also notes theincreasedimportanceof environmental perspectives within gerontology, not least because environments are being transformed through the diverse social, cultural and economic changes associated with globalisation.
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This led to theincreasedimportanceof wage labour for a great proportion of the male textile workers.
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Moreover, theincreasedimportanceof local leaders in managing the irrigation systems and people's continued belief in local customs and traditions have jointly played an important role.
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Technological advance has placedincreasedimportanceon biochemical and physical abnormalities, objective data, rather than the patient's symptoms, their emotional well-being, their beliefs, or their social and cultural background.
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I am sure that bringing to public attention in debates such as these theincreasedimportanceand value of sponsorship is essential.
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