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 Welsh government can step in if a planning application "raises issues of more than local importance"
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
The new price measure will give more weight to gaming and information technology for businesses, two categories that have grown in importance.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026
Since my rebuff of yesterday I have a sort of empty feeling; nothing in the world seems of sufficient importance to be worth the doing....
From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker
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 James, Henry
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 Solomon, Steve
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
In the particular juncture, the Secretary of the Navy, Mr. Tracy, took my view of relative importances, and time was secured me.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by Mahan, A. T. (Alfred Thayer)
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