importance
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Most stressed the need to continue the organization's ongoing reforms to make it more efficient, as well as the importance of greater involvement by the secretary-general in peace efforts around the world.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
“The conflict in Iran has highlighted the importance of security of supply and the essential role of oil and gas in meeting global demand,” Chief Executive Josu Jon Imaz said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
The club have stressed the importance of taking time to make the right decision when it comes to either expanding St James' Park or building a new stadium, which will be key to boosting revenue.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
He also emphasized the importance of in-house research in the small-cap space, because “there is a large number of companies not followed by the universe outside our four walls.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
In their lives they had been men of importance and ladies of standing.
From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland
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Van Eyck’s finish is saved because up to the last he is essentially impressionist, that is, he keeps a just account of relative importances and keeps them in their true subordination one to another.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel
One of the actual penalties of this is that so few of such ancient importances remain definable or presentable.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by James, Henry
The difficulty lies in the nice appreciation of relative importances and in the giving each detail neither more nor less than its due.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel
We are beginning to have glamours and importances of our own.
From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake
The chromatic differences of other errors of reproduction have seldom practical importances.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg