Aretē, in the Sophists' view, was the result of known and controllable procedures, a contention of profound importance for the organization of society.
Our results strongly support this contention, revealing the importance of studying the dynamics of both contracting and expanding limits.
Why is this of importance?
Of central importance, and of greatest contention, to us as a team, is the notion of accessibility.
The diminishment of the importance of the Union cause, [contentions] that Grant was a brutal general, a corrupt Reconstruction president.
Our moral and religious claims strike many as illiberal (therefore incorrect) and sociological contentions about the integral importance of traditional family structure to society's health are cold-hearted abstractions.
Historically, confounding has been of prime importance, and the focus of most contention, in studies of environmental chemical exposures, because of the frequent regulatory and economic implications of the causal inferences drawn.
Those linkages are of undeniable importance, and fully support the contention that your health is likely to have more to do with your zip code than your genetic code.
Yet, the book's contention that natural selection's importance for evolution has been hugely overstated represents a point of view that has a growing set of adherents.
A second contention in support of voluntary euthanasia was mentioned at the beginning of this article, namely the importance of promoting the well-being of persons.
As the region became a point of contention between the Habsburgs, Ottomans, and Venetians, its defense was given high importance in the newly established Croatian Military Frontier, as exemplified by the Uskoks of Senj.
