Those who argue that this region is of no strategic importance are simply wrong.
Given its strategic importance to Israel, IAI may never be quite a normal company.
But his visit was also testimony to Turkey's strategic importance for the West as a whole.
Yet the world has connived in the illegality, transfixed by Indonesia's strategic importance and commercial potential.
Among other reasons, King David chose Jerusalem as his capital city because of its strategic importance.
In addition to financial performance, Intel, under Otellini's leadership, achieved notable successes in areas of strategic importance.
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The planned direct export pipeline is of strategic importance, said Ali Balo, a senior Kurdish oil official.
Mr. DEBAPRIYA BHATTACHARYA (Center for Policy Dialogue): And the strategic importance of Bangladesh (unintelligible) is very much underplayed.
Sudan is of considerable strategic importance to China because of its oil production, much of which China buys.
But sitting, as it does, close to Iran, the island nation gets a few extra brownie points for strategic importance.
Central Asia's growing strategic importance for America and its friends is also affecting the region's atmosphere in more subtle ways.
Linguistic and cultural diversity are of strategic importance for people around the world in strengthening the unity and cohesion of societies.
Now, there is more collaboration between the two groups, he said, because everyone recognizes the strategic importance of the U.S. market.
Fortunately, much can be done to demonstrate the strategic importance the West attaches to Africa without putting boots on the ground.
Social entrepreneurs have jumped at this opportunity, having recognized the strategic importance of the Latin American and Hispanic communities across the hemisphere.
AfriCom joins the five other geographic commands of the U.S. military and is an acknowledgment of the growing strategic importance of the continent.
While attention today is on Afghanistan, over the long run our neighborhood in the hemisphere is of greater strategic importance than Central Asia.
It is rather the opposite for Europe, which lacks the same strategic importance for Moscow but where geographical proximity and trade relations matter.
Its ramparts still stand strikingly as a reminder of its strategic importance, and the bustling alleyways of the old city retain a medieval flavour.
The events of September 11, 2001 forced the United States of America to recognize the strategic importance that sanctuaries provided to terrorist networks like al-Qaeda.
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In 2010 sustainability accounting firm Ekos International was commissioned by Nike and Hewlett Packard to do a study on the strategic importance of employee engagement and CSR.
Over the longer term Venezuela's strategic importance will only grow.
But to do so would require an understanding of the strategic importance and the economic wisdom of providing the American people and the world a strong and stable currency.
Rice said the arms deal, along with an aid package for Israel and Egypt, represented the fruit of years of partnership and a recognition of the region's strategic importance.
"It's clearly an area where growth in search is occurring and in terms of strategic importance, it is near the top for Microsoft, " said Erik Jorgensen, senior vice-president for mobile.
The remaining make-up of newly elected Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg's government further hints at the strategic importance he places on the future of the Arctic region and the Barents Sea.
The Safy Mountain range is of strategic importance because it overlooks the Bagram air base, which was built by Soviet forces during the Soviet Union's war with Afghanistan in the 1980s.
As the war in Kosovo grinds on, the alliance's need for a land bridge from Germany through the Czech Republic and Slovakia and on to Hungary has enhanced the country's strategic importance.
Europe wants Turkey to become more modern, democratic and stable because Turkey has strategic importance as "an anchor of stability and a benchmark of democracy for the wider Muslim world", he says.
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