But that is not, these days, what confers importance.
iPads are so common now, despite their price, that they no longer confer importance or prestige; they're about as glamorous as bluetooth headsets.
I like the idea that portraiture confers importance on its subjects, and in photographing people who do not fit into mainstream, or what are generally considered culturally valuable representations of bodies, genders, and sexualities, I'm suggesting that we are important.
That, in turn, confers great importance on the negotiations between the United States and Latin America regarding the extension of free trade status to the rest of the hemisphere.
None of the four hit anything, and the Sergeant radioed the platoon command for artillery support, which was quickly granted; the coöperation, Eriksson recalled, pleased Meserve no end, since it implicitly conferred an importance on the skirmish.
But over the past century, as these duties increasingly fell to individuals with little or no training, doctors and even some nurses began to confer less importance, and status, to the work of caregiving.
In many countries research evaluations confer high importance to mainstream journals, which are considered to publish excellent research.
The improved breakpoint delineation drove the identification of novel disease gene NEO1 which conferred aetiological importance in ASD [29].
However, this fails to capture the intuition that winning against more lawyers confers more importance (for example, 2 lawyers winning against 10 lawyers should confer them more prestige than winning against just 1 lawyer).
This phenomenon confers capital importance to pseudogenes related to metastasis-driving genes.
