Collocations withimportance
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added importance
Perhaps symmetry gained added importance as a clue to general health when hominids lost thick body hair.
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central importance
Of central importance, we demonstrated that preventive intervention can foster the development of the executive regulatory system.
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considerable importance
But there is now a point of considerable importance to be made.
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critical importance
This finding indicates that additional terms such as hydration and polyelectrolyte effects are of critical importance.
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crucial importance
Of crucial importance in this approach is the correct identification of the origin of field faecal samples.
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decisive importance
For instance, the fiscal deficit could jeopardize the level of governmental subsidies that have decisive importance for the development of the sector.
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declining importance
Lastly, the declining importance of the agricultural sector in electoral campaign further facilitated the politicians to prefer an export promotion policy over protectionist policies.
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decreasing importance
This was due to the decreasing importance of fishing in the middle of the century.
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enormous importance
This research was of enormous importance in the revolution in macroeconomics that is associated with the onset of rational expectations.
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equal importance
These are at least of equal importance.
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exceptional importance
All the same, this release amounts to a lyrical testament of exceptional importance.
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extreme importance
Cercarial survival and infectivity are of extreme importance in the rate of trematode transmission.
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factor of importance
But as mentioned earlier, economising the capacity of the central representation may not be the factor of importance in the brain.
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fundamental importance
This underscores the fundamental importance of revealing the physical principles for metal interactions with folded, unfolded, and intermediate states of polypeptides.
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grave importance
This was a matter of grave importance, and not only for the playwrights and librettists.
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great importance
An assessment of the available programs is of great importance for experimentalists who are required to run many different programs.
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greatest importance
Here then is a distinction of the greatest importance.
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growing importance
Two considerations attest to the growing importance of professional associations.
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historic importance
Let us not understate the historic importance of this argument to liberalism, to feminism, and to women's equality.
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historical importance
This essay offers an analysis of one of the forgotten enquetes, which appears in a short-lived journal of considerable contemporary and historical importance.
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immense importance
Such a deterioration would have been of immense importance but not perhaps that noticeable to historians.
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importance of collaboration
Clearly, no one individual can master all available techniques, thus pointing to the importance of collaboration across disciplines in research examining multiple levels of analysis.
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importance of communication
Virtually all variants of democratic theory emphasize the importance of communication between citizens and their elected representatives.
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importance of conservation
Fishermen in this country are to be congratulated on being united in realising the importance of conservation.
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importance of context
The incorporation of a biological perspective into research on resilience still requires adherence to a dynamic, transactional view that respects the importance of context.
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importance of continuity
The new approach acknowledges the importance of continuity, as must any approach involving robotics.
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importance of cooperation
I would like to emphasise the importance of cooperation in all significant areas within this programme.
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importance of diversity
The authors provide a wealth of information that focuses very much on what is important for older people generally while emphasising the importance of diversity.
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importance of education
Another interesting finding is the importance of education in predicting the onset of health declines, a result corroborating earlier analyses from other countries.
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importance of innovation
We have also heard about the importance of innovation, health and safety and flexibility.
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importance of listening
Regardless, instruction that facilitates cognitive processing in listening comprehension needs more rigorous research, given the overall importance of listening for language learning.
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importance of literacy
This episode shows the rising importance of literacy in the 1940s and 1950s.
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importance of prevention
The implications of these emerging data on the physiological and molecular mechanisms underlying emotional memory emphasize the particular importance of prevention and early intervention.
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importance of religion
She also stresses the importance of religion for whiggery in the 1730s.
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importance of teaching
This ties in with his declared views on the importance of teaching formal harmony through primary triads.
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increased importance
Nevertheless, the irrigation systems continue to function, due to adaptation of the local communities, especially the increased importance of local leaders.
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increasing importance
This trend also reflects the increasing importance of private medical services during this period.
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lasting importance
The intention is to republish papers of lasting importance and historical significance.
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lesser importance
The students themselves seemed to consider revision of content important but saw it as of lesser importance to the teachers.
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marginal importance
The focus on the study of adults is unfortunate as host-plant utilization by adults can be of marginal importance compared with their larvae.
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matter of importance
There is another matter of importance here.
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minor importance
However, this incentive tool is limited and currently is of minor importance.
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order of importance
We list some of these in no particular order of importance or difficulty.
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overriding importance
One clause is of overriding importance in understanding the special nature of the conversion of concert room into opera house.
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paramount importance
The multiple relationships between technology and composer and performer are dynamic and of paramount importance to each party.
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particular importance
In any study of the activity of drugs, the consequences on the entire host are of particular importance.
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perceived importance
The subject's perceived importance should be demonstrable from an organizational or professional perspective.
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practical importance
Detailed anatomical examination of the oval fossa and its environs relative to placement of the device is obviously of great practical importance.
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pressing importance
I am afraid that whatever time it would take would be taken away from business of the most pressing importance.
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primary importance
The latter one, which will be of primary importance here, describes the sentences which represent a world different from the actual one.
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prime importance
A definition of needs has today become of prime importance to the designer of technological environment.
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profound importance
But wise cultural leaders are needed, who can see and explain the profound importance of these choices.
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relative importance
The occurrence of both species in the same island is unique and has resulted in a controversy as to their relative importance in transmission.
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secondary importance
The writer's intention, and the techniques by which it is accomplished, can be considered irrelevant, or at best of secondary importance.
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strategic importance
Its strategic importance remained as high as ever.
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symbolic importance
Most specifically, it will be suggested that such benches drew a sizeable proportion of their undoubted symbolic importance from their location within the church.
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tremendous importance
These cases show the tremendous importance of framing by the individual for both government and public consumption.
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utmost importance
In pervasive computing, the physical context is of the utmost importance.
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varying importance
Relevant documents, then, are not seen as a set of equally important documents but as sets of documents of varying importance.
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vital importance
In this context the teacher's role in awakening the student's interest, to 'reach' the student, is of vital importance.
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