Variables were added to the model in order of increasing significance until no longer significant at the 5% level.
Of increasing significance, digitized databases open the way for a much wider distribution of the maps over the Internet.
"The results also highlight the increasing significance of wind in deforming and breaking the sea ice cover".
"Of slight importance in their own time, they are of great and increasing significance in our time".
The goal is to renew the lake "in a manner that recalls its picturesque origins while recognizing its increasing significance as wildlife habitat," the conservancy said.
And, more important, there were signs that the governing bodies will have to embrace the increasing significance of nations whose existence was hitherto deemed to be peripheral.
Casablanca alone accounts for about half of all port tonnage handled, although port facilities in Tangier are of increasing significance.
Thao is blackmailed by his Hmong cousin's vicious outlaw band to steal the Gran Torino, which takes on an increasing significance as a large, crude symbol of a vanished past of men's work, craftsmanship, community and old-fashioned values.
The deal points to the continued consolidation in the mining industry at a time when commodity prices have slipped and the quest for economies of scale has taken on increasing significance.
With his masterly use of visual motifs — the train and the fog of the opening sequence reappear periodically with increasing significance — and slow, contemplative rhythms, he gives the comedy a lyrical dimension, building to a final sense of moral devastation.
It is Walbert's conceit that while the oldest and youngest generations never meet, they share a legacy of echoes: objects and phrases that repeat mysteriously, and with increasing significance, across the decades.
