Sentence examples for * immediate significance from inspiring English sources
Then the Australian civilian aviation authorities said it had "no immediate significance".
In that sense, the hoopla surrounding the tests — both inside and outside China — suggests that the symbolism of Tuesday's flight may considerably outweigh its immediate significance.
Anton seemed particularly interested in the books on Hadley's shelves, as if the hundreds of titles acquired years earlier by Hadley's husband — who'd earned both a Ph.D. in European history and a law degree from Columbia University — possessed an immediate significance and were not simply relics of a lost and irretrievable private past.
But it turns out the Australians were not aware of the maths, and when Bradman was bowled second ball for a duck by a googly from Eric Hollies, leaving him marooned forever on 99.94, the immediate significance was lost on his team-mates.
In his biography of Fiorello La Guardia, Thomas Kessner spoke of La Guardia's "moments of communion with New Yorkers," moments in which the mayor translated "the abstract workings of government into immediate significance for the men, women and children of his city".
The very subject of Chris Marker's work is memory; his death today, at the age of ninety-one (indeed, the day after his ninety-first birthday), elicits a simulacrum of memory, in tributes such as this one, where the contrast between the immediate significance (to the protagonist in the drama and to those who know and love him) and its public reflection is stretched to absurdity.
Of more immediate political significance were two failed votes of no confidence in the Barak government.
So a dismissive response misses both the immediate political significance of Ahern's announcement and its wider echoing cultural implications.
One can only guess what immediate economic significance an Oscar win will have for either Avatar or The Hurt Locker.
But only his decision to halt for now the military trials under way at Guantánamo Bay seemed likely to have immediate practical significance, with other critical policy choices to be resolved by task forces set up within the administration.
The immediate political significance of the union was that it complemented the Union of Arras, concluded earlier in January, which began the reconciliation of the southerners with King Philip II of Spain.
