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They should make a strategic decision to engage Iran – without any pre-conditions – in discussions on a broad range of issues of
significance
to both sides.
Skin cancer, long thought to be a disease of little public health significance, has now become epidemic.
A state becomes a world power when its strategic
significance
and potential give it global reach.
The real historical
significance
of the choice that Russia will face in 2008 will be determined not by the next president’s personal qualities, but by his loyalties – that is, to whom he owes his job.
By the same token, reducing expectations means that the
significance
of the results should not be exaggerated.
To understand Hamilton’s achievement – and thus to appreciate its
significance
for our own times – we need to understand the scale of the Revolutionary War debt crisis.
It provides further guarantees that decisions will be taken by those closest to citizens, and it acknowledges the
significance
the values on which the Union rests: respect for human rights and dignity, liberty, democracy, equality, and the rule of law.
This casual fact assumes
significance
when one considers that Derna sent more teenage volunteers per capita than any other city in the Maghreb to wage jihad in Iraq and Afghanistan.
It wasn’t only the martial
significance
of the drummers who started the show.
In light of the fact that during the past millennium the EU’s members fought countless wars with each other, and that for forty five years a cold war split the continent into two hostile blocs, today’s Europe is a success of monumental historical
significance.
For example, while they pale in
significance
to, say, the World Bank, China-led institutions have proved appealing to a growing number of countries; most US allies have joined the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, despite American opposition.
They profess such sobriety of view as to regard all concepts as equal in weight or
significance
until new evidence decrees otherwise.
The symbolic
significance
of a new cabinet was expected to reflect its redefinition of the Saudi nation and its future.
In fact, empirical data suggest the
significance
of this danger.
Twelve months later, Russia drummed home the
significance
of that act by shutting off oil supplies to Belarus for three days, causing a ripple effect on shipments to Western Europe.
A question of broader
significance
was raised by the case of an eight-year-old Los Angeles child who is anatomically female, but dresses as, and wants to be considered, a boy.
And now Japan will provide up to $2.8 billion dollars to help improve US bases on Guam, which will have even greater strategic
significance
in the future.
To Bonino, if a company of comparable
significance
isn’t being born in Europe, it is because “we haven’t been able to set up a favorable climate for it to flourish.”
Even simple requests, like that of schoolgirls to wear headscarves in class, are suddenly freighted with immense political
significance
and treated as issues that must be resolved at the highest level of government.
Although Baghdad's strategic
significance
was limited, the British government needed a success to restore its international prestige, badly damaged by the failure of the Gallipoli expedition.
The tiny organization had an outsize historic
significance.
The silver lining in an amicable break-up of the trade talks is that it would give negotiators a chance to focus on issues that are of much greater
significance
to developing nations.
A bulwark of secular government and anti-fundamentalism in a North Africa that is struggling to contain the spread of Islamic extremism, Libya is of strategic importance to Europe and the US beyond its oil riches, notwithstanding the overwhelming
significance
of its energy resources.
The statement will be based on consultations with many of Japan’s, and the world’s, leading WWII historians, as well as – and more important – with himself, his conscience, and his heart, because he understands the
significance
of his words on this highly fraught topic.
American-Chinese relationships, in addition to their impact on Russia, have a significance, for the stability of North-East Asia where there is a potential for conflict and they will help to define how Japan defines its own role in international affairs as a major power, not only economically, but also over time, politically and militarily.
The growing
significance
of the veil also highlighted important differences between men and women in Morocco.
What Ridley fails to recognize is that the theoretical underpinnings of these inventions may be the result of earlier basic research that had no particular intended practical application; that its
significance
was completely unsuspected when it was conducted.
After receiving the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Salvador Luria, my M.I.T. microbiology professor, joked about the difficulty of perceiving the
significance
of one’s own research findings.
The question is particularly relevant for Europe, but it also has global
significance.
Given the UK’s economic, political, and military significance, Brexit will leave a gaping hole in the EU.
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