It would, though, be a mistake to imagine that this was a day shorn of political significance.
While it may attract a bigger crowd, the contest is unlikely to carry the same political significance of King's encounter with Riggs in 1973.
One leading GOP strategist who has worked on several recent high-profile races in the state said Republicans have failed to grasp the political significance of the Florida's growing Hispanic population.
Greater political significance attaches to the tests for 11-year-olds in England, because they are published towards the end of the year and form the basis of the primary school performance tables.
The political significance seems greater than the financial significance.
The fact that Obama recognizes the political significance of the developments in Egypt signals that he too may be willing to consider adopting a different policy towards Egypt in the months to come.
And the BBC's Hugh Pym said that while it was unlikely to have a huge market impact, the downgrade was very much a moment of political significance because the UK had not lost its AAA rating since the 1970s.
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Was the political significance here that Welsh Labour's manifesto written for May's Assembly election said that Labour had delivered on a pledge to "eliminate the use of private sector hospitals in NHS Wales and will continue to rule out the use of PFI in health services"?
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He said the Maze must be developed taking account of its political and historic significance.
At the January unveiling, a museum curator suggested that the statue showcased Confucius's political and cultural significance.
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The political and psychological significance of such a withdrawal can hardly be underestimated.
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Because the areas of land involved in non-cropland agriculture on all continents are so vast, the economic, the political and military significance is simply mind-blowing.
It is debatable whether the semi-factual story can shoulder the burden of political and historical significance the author gives it, and the result is more muddled than revelatory.
Let's reposition the notion of apology and give it the significance in our political discourse it rightly deserves.
An estate agent by profession, Peter Robinson married Iris Collins in 1970 - the partnership later took on political as well as personal significance, when the two became a husband and wife team at Westminster.
She had been one of the first political leaders to recognise the significance of climate change and, despite her Atlanticist instincts and staunch patriotism, she had "participated in one of the most profound periods of European integration".
But the privacy blunders that Mayer has identified take on a new significance in the political realm, where Web users may seek to keep their political views distinct from their public identities for fear of discrimination or outside pressure.
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In addition to its immediate legislative significance, the larger political importance of the Massachusetts election rests in what it signals for House and Senate Democrats who will face reelection in November.
The American-born son of a half-Chinese commoner accidentally inherits a throne close to extinction and revives it, creating one of the world's most powerful and wealthy monarchies, and surely the only one of any significance to have gained in political power in modern times.
Sir John says this is "worthy of consideration", but notes that it is "a decision of broad national significance which would require a broad political and public consensus".
Not for the nonsense they say about Israel but rather because of the sources they draw from and its significance in the context of the current political situation in Latin America.
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However, often the professional number-crunchers and political soothsayers regale us with their interpretations of the wider electoral significance, we should never lose sight of the huge influence these councils have on millions of people's lives.
It is because the leading political leaders and foreign policy practitioners in the West refuse to listen to them and deny the significance of their actions.
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