The phrase "alter the importance" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing changes in significance or priority regarding a particular subject or issue.
Example: "The new evidence may alter the importance of the previous findings in the study."
Alternatives: "change the significance" or "modify the priority".
Democracy will not alter the importance of the Nile for Egypt but may reduce its capability to control it.
But it would not alter the importance of Columbus's discovery; its historical significance is rooted not in whether he was the first person to discover America but in that his voyage led the way to the colonization that ultimately resulted in the United States.
Studies of gene-environment interplay show that CD genetic predispositions also contribute to selection into higher-risk environments, and that environmental factors can alter the importance of CD genetic factors and differentially methylate CD candidate genes.
This finding is balanced by the large variations of the contact patterns, which strongly alter the importance of nodes from one period to the next and therefore significantly limit the efficiency of any strategy based on an importance ranking of nodes.
Building from prior literature, 1 4 results from a laboratory experiment using a travel Web site reveal that touchscreens affect Web page usage behaviors, change product attribute salience, and alter the importance of information sources.
"Combat alters the importance and value of everything," said Ms. Ysewyn, who now teaches middle school in Virginia.
But as a result of various ostensibly minor issues, the likelihood of a British exit seems to be increasing – which fundamentally alters the importance of the vote in Scotland.
This implies that following a dynamic analysis, the results for many sea states can be obtained by simply altering the importance sampling weighting function.
Further, changes in climate may alter the relative importance of wind versus water erosion in dryland ecosystems.
How differences in herbivore abundance alter the relative importance of these interactions is not well understood, especially in seasonal wetland systems.
Applying the continuous time-aggregation correction on the monthly survey data does not alter the relative importance of job-finding and job-separation rates, which is 50-50 in my sample.
