Sentence examples for a highly significant move from inspiring English sources

Pearson said the extra funding was welcome and a highly significant move, but he was pressing for further help for all councils with responsibility for social care.

In a highly significant move, council leaders in Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool, Leeds, Nottingham, Glasgow and many others signed up to the promise ahead of the crucial international climate talks that will take place next month in Paris.

Loss of our islands?" Ruth Davis, political adviser at Greenpeace, said: "This is a highly significant move – it will be the first time the size of the bill for failing to take on climate change will be part of the UN discussions.

Now, in a highly significant move, a distinguished group of writers, led by Andrew Kidd of the Aitken & Alexander literary agency, has declared, if not war on the Man Booker prizes, then at least an imminent secession from their lofty and self-appointed sovereignty.

In a highly significant move and in the midst of a ferocious controversy in the USA, the Archbishop of Los Angeles, Jose H. Gomez, has publicly expressed his support for Cardinal Roger Mahony's participation in the conclave that will elect the next Pope.

García Ábrego was eventually succeeded by Osiel Cárdenas, who, in a highly significant move for drug trafficking and for Mexico, around 1997 succeeding in getting a clique of Mexican special forces soldiers to defect and form a group of enforces, Los Zetas (the Z's).

In a separate and potentially highly significant move, his president and soon-to-be prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, announced he was giving the Russian prosecutor until April to review the case of the jailed oil tycoon, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and look again at the decision not to register one of Russia's small opposition parties.

In a highly significant and symbolic move, the Southern Baptists did apologize in 1995 for their endorsement of slavery, segregation and white supremacism.

This revealed that mago, btz, and TmIIgs mutants cause a highly significant reversal in the directional bias, with 57%–59% of particles moving anteriorly, compared to only 43% in wild-type.

But, as we move towards larger size deletion groups (21 40, 41 60, 61 80 Mb), a highly significant negative correlation between proportion of deletions and number of marker loci mapped on a particular chromosome was observed.

This is a highly significant vote.