Significance
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Although its home turf, Silicon Valley, has grown in population, income, and economic significance, the number of journalists working for the Mercury News has declined from 400 in the 1990s to around 40 today.
Of course, it is also possible that Gibraltar and Bermuda have chosen to ignore the results, or dispute their
significance.
It also needs to continue to engage with Europe on international projects, including negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program – an issue of fundamental
significance
to international security.
A year is the time that it takes for the earth to orbit the sun, which, except for seasonal industries like agriculture, has no particular economic
significance.
Given the
significance
of the Chinese economy, continuing to leave this unaddressed is anything but normal.
The savings would not be huge, but the moral
significance
would be, for the recent divided vote delivered a clear verdict on at least one issue: the public’s loathing for the country’s elites.
But the real
significance
of the meeting may turn out to be, not the limited decisions which the heads of government are able and willing to take this time round, but the opening up, virtually for the first time, of serious discussion about the future direction of the European Union.
But it has nothing to do with the
significance
and complexity of the tectonic historical forces now grinding their way forward, straining – and beginning to tear asunder – the region’s political landscape.
There is no underplaying the
significance
of the court’s unanimous decision to convict the first Philippine president ever to undergo a criminal trial.
Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War (1991) spoke of a distant fight – the nine-year Soviet war in Afghanistan – that eroded Russian culture and humanity, while Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (1997) meditated on the global
significance
of the nuclear disaster.
The growing gap between governments and people in the Arab world has become an unsustainable deficit – a point that has gained new
significance
as the Turkish experience has gained greater salience in these countries.
(This is not the first case of a soccer match taking on symbolic
significance
in the EU: in the summer of 2012, at the height of the eurozone’s debt crisis, the decisive European summit occurred at the same time as a European Cup match between Italy and Germany.)
Given China’s importance in both military and economic matters, growing energy and trade relations between Central Asia and the West, and the reasonable assumption that Central Asia’s security will continue to have great
significance
for Western security, cooperation between the SCO, the EU, and NATO looks inevitable.
And yet agreement on virtually everything of
significance
will be very difficult to reach.
As it happens, plumbing is fraught with social
significance
in India; many girls do not go to school, owing to inadequate or broken plumbing.
As costly as they have been, the dislocations of the great recession and the euro crisis pale in
significance
compared to those of the Great Depression.
Britain expects to jump the queue, because of the scale, depth, and
significance
of its economic relationship with the EU.
Even to the most inveterate optimist, the G7 summit in Quebec earlier this month was proof that the geopolitical West is breaking up and losing its global significance, and that the great destroyer of that American-created and American-led order is none other than the US president.
This link is apparent in the deep social
significance
of most of an individual’s economic transactions.
US President Barack Obama understands – probably better than any previous US president – the
significance
of international law, which is why he wants to bring countries like China fully within its strictures.
Its airport has become a global hub of such
significance
that German regulators recently had to force Emirates Airlines to raise its rates to Frankfurt, lest national champion Lufthansa lose too much business.
But Europe’s leaders have largely ignored or misunderstood its significance, and thus have failed to seize the opportunity that it represents.
But seven years, seven summits, and one new member (South Africa joined in 2010) later, the
significance
of the BRICS remains hotly debated.
Indirectly, it concerns all of us, for the choice made by Arcelor’s shareholders is far from being an exception; on the contrary, it reveals the deep economic and social
significance
of corporate takeovers of this type.
It is a project of such
significance
and scope that it should quickly be followed up by similar studies in other parts of the world.
The
significance
of the merger’s collapse is now becoming clear to observers across Europe, especially in Germany, where the media have been extremely critical of how “negative politics” sealed the proposed merger’s fate.
But today it is the Westphalian order that is in decline, along with the
significance
of state borders.
So the lessons learned from the Montreal Protocol may have wider
significance.
The economic
significance
of new financial products is likely to grow more rapidly as foreign banks enter the market.
But the fact of the matter is that adding the renminbi to the SDR basket has little practical
significance.
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