Arguments for preserving the buildings rest on their cultural and economic significance to the city.
In this context, harvesting of the more abundant marine mammals takes on a real economic significance.
The stakes are high, because of the enormous economic significance of the sea.
The Paris daily Liberation plays down the economic significance of the Danish vote.
Dependency exemptions seem to take on a role in divorce negotiations that is out of proportion to their economic significance.
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The Irish state argued that the challenge was a very real threat to the vital work of Nama and is of enormous economic significance.
This accident of birth can have far-reaching economic significance, says the IFS, as underachievement in qualifications at school will be likely to reduce employment opportunities in adulthood.
In order to get growth going by minimising delays to the awarding of big contracts of economic significance, the prime minister wants there to be fewer judicial reviews (there were 11, 200 judicial reviews last year, up from just 160 in 1975).
The Arctic's importance has gained extra strategic and economic significance as melting ice in the polar region strengthens the feasibility of nations to use the Northern Sea Route (NSR) across the top of Russia and the Northwest Passage through Canada's Arctic archipelago.
Weak firms were always likely to go under. (And some stronger ones are still expanding in Britain witness Honda's announcement this week that it will be producing a new model at its Swindon plant.) More important, the car industry has a totemic status that is out of proportion to its real economic significance.
Central Myanmar is also of greater economic and political significance than Rakhine, and the town of Meikhtila houses important military bases, including the air force's central command.
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.
With the strait-jacket of the Cold War removed, all sorts of tensions were released and, while its strategic significance can be debated, the economic shift to Asia is an accelerating reality.
Fixated on its economic and electoral ramifications, many miss the wretched significance of Chief Justice Roberts twisted ObamaCare logic.
But the greater significance of what is emerging from the Joint Economic Committee is not its answers but its questions.
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To Seoul, the significance of the Kaesong plant is symbolic rather than economic, as it has represented the thread that has kept the Koreas connected since its opening in 2004, remaining in operation through several downturns in ties, even military confrontations.
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The decisions made now with respect to our policies on immigration, education, energy, trade, entitlements, taxes, regulations, industrial management, and the proper role of government in the economic sphere will determine the health, competitiveness, and relative significance of the U.S. economy in the decades ahead.
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C. but the national security community and the Congress to reject this "fire-sale" of an asset with immeasurable significance for the Nation's future strategic interests and economic competitiveness.
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The marathon's significance wasn't disputed, nor its value as an economic engine.
Mick Woolhouse, executive director of the trust, said the complex - which would also include a fishing lake, BMX track and triathlon facilities - would have "local, regional, national and international significance", and would result in "both sporting and economic benefits".
The significance of the new working groups, which cover public services, economic competitiveness, security, the environment and energy, the role of the state and foreign policy, is twofold.
Martin van Vliet, a researcher at the African Studies Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, said that while Timbuktu was no longer a city of vital economic or military importance, it stood out as an important prize for the rebels due to its symbolic significance.
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