importance
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He certainly doesn’t understand compromise or the importance of local issues.
From Salon ● Oct. 9, 2026
Health Secretary Yvette Cooper added: "Professor Fonagy's review has shown the importance of early intervention to address mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions and the huge distress these can cause."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“It’s a very good illustration of the importance of the system holding.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Schlossman said the market’s reaction Thursday emphasizes the importance of understanding how each company reports its revenue before making comparisons.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 8, 2026
When Chief Powhatan sends word that he will trade for corn, Captain Ratcliffe goes strutting around the fort, full of his own importance.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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 Henry James
She replied nothing at first, till he feared she might think it her duty to resent a question that made light of all her husband's importances.
From Madame De Mauves by Henry James
The chromatic differences of other errors of reproduction have seldom practical importances.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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 Samuel Butler
I want my readers to be intelligent about understanding the relative importances of different hygienic treatment and useful supporting practices.
From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Steve Solomon
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