lasting importance

collocation in English

meaningsoflastingandimportance

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lasting
adjective
uk
/ˈlɑː.stɪŋ/us
/ˈlæs.tɪŋ/
continuing to exist for a long time or ...
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importance
noun[U]
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.təns/
the quality of ...
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(Definition oflastingandimportancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflasting importance

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The intention is to republish papers oflastingimportanceand historical significance.
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War-time production was a source of pride and patriotism for many arsenal workers, but improving their material conditions and avoiding conscription was of morelastingimportance.
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However, none of our ingenieurs savants produced any new results or methods oflastingimportanceto numerical analysis.
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In a society mostly concentrated on the immediate moment, factors oflastingimportanceand values such as region, language, religion and family apparently move into the background.
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We believe that that is a valuable report and will prove to be oflastingimportance.
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That is as it should be in the case of a constitutional measure of such great scope andlastingimportance.
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It has been a political red herring when matters of constitutional andlastingimportanceshould have been to the fore.
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Behind it all is the definite notion that the fact that a guilty person may occasionally escape is of nolastingimportanceat all.
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Universities have something to offer to education of enormous andlastingimportance.
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They represent a major operation oflastingimportanceto the quality of government and it is intended that they should now be followed by a period of stability.
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This is a point which is oflastingimportance.
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It is the second rather than the first which is oflastingimportancefor that part of the world.
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Some of those reforms were oflastingimportance.
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Despite its beginnings as a vehicle of intended economic revolution, the board achieved nothing oflastingimportance.
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It was a very interesting time but it did not, in my opinion, leave behind much oflastingimportance.
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He conducted research oflastingimportance, particularly in the field of prehistory and early history.
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Magnol is oflastingimportancebecause he was one of the innovators of the current botanical scheme of classification.
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