Sentences with importance
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I i - We have always stressed the importance of economic reform. [+ of]
- A man of importance
- Jackson had been instrumental in convincing President Truman of the importance of a proper.
- Rabbi Philip Heilbrunn said the importance of circumcision to the Jewish community dated back to biblical days.
- An air of bustling importance.
- But to focus on the drama of the stockade, or even the flag, is to miss the essential and lasting importance of Eureka.
- Importance, the broadest of these terms, implies greatness of worth, meaning, influence, etc. [news of importance]; consequence, often interchangeable with the preceding, more specifically suggests importance with regard to outcome or result [a disagreement of no consequence]; moment expresses this same idea of importance in effect with somewhat stronger force [affairs of great moment]; weight implies an estimation of the relative importance of something [his word carries great weight with us]; significance implies an importance or momentousness because of a special meaning that may or may not be immediately apparent [an event of significance]