Gene-culture coevolutionary studies ascribe importance to human cultural adaptations as endogenous agents of environment transformation, with down-the-line effects in the genome.
Theories of constitutional interpretation come in a variety of forms, but they all seem, in one way or another, to ascribe importance to a number of key factors: textual or semantic meaning; political, social and legal history; intention; original understanding; and moral/political theory.
Each of these theories ascribe importance to "fear of fear" as a maintaining factor.
Why have we ascribed such importance to cupcakes and guacamole in 2010?
The tutors ascribed great importance to the continuous availability of a contact doctor in case of uncertainties.
Further, using such an additive strategy implies that the risk of false positives may be minimized since effects of single genes must be in consensus with the effects from other genes in the pathway before they will be ascribed any importance.
Not only do all three faiths ascribe overwhelming importance to a set of divinely inspired writings, but the content of these writings overlaps.
SINCE arguments about God have run for thousands of years, it is a little peculiar to ascribe overwhelming importance to the publication of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" in 1859.
Relations between Christian and Jewish people are not doomed to be hate-filled or murderous, but relations between their respective religious teachers always will be, to a certain extent, fragile and in need of careful nurturing; that follows from the very fact that they interpret texts and prophecies, to which both ascribe primordial importance, in different ways.
So Sir John admires the traditionalism and rigour of Pope Benedict just as he admires the traditionalism and rigour of the equivalent schools of Islam and Judaism.Fine but how far is it really possible for people who disagree about a matter to which they ascribe supreme importance to admire one another's integrity and rigour?
"To ascribe any importance to an arbitrary line in the sand detracts from the true drivers of the rally".
