He asserts the importance of experiences whose meaning he admits to not having plumbed.
Similarly, it is hard to see why he asserts "the importance of Christianity in our country" when "the Christian values of responsibility, hard work, charity, compassion, humility, and love are shared by people of every faith and none".
He asserted the importance of discipline and punctuality to the children.
Richard Powers compares poorly with these writers: his fictional work constantly asserts the importance of the human while never quite succeeding in enacting it.
Under a degree of fire for the suggestion that women should expect men to pay for everything, the following year they released Independent Women Part I – a song that asserts the importance of financial independence for women: "I depend on me," it insists.
Artemis Cooper's biography of Howard, which was also published this year, asserts the importance of Howard the writer, but also paints a painful portrait of a woman whose emotional life was often determined by the approval and attention of men – most notably, of course, that of her husband of 18 years, Kingsley Amis.
A sequence of poems about September 11th asserts the importance of poetry itself, by translating a four-thousand-year-old Sumerian lamentation on Ur ("Our country's dead / melt into the earth") and a spell from Greek magical papyri, which announces, "This is the charm that will protect you".
"I tasted freedom with him," Heaney says, and asserts the importance of being yourself, and going your own way, in poetry as in life: To get out early, haul Steadily off the bottom, Dispraise the catch, and smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt, Somewhere, well out, beyond.
Irigaray recognizes that the "exposure" of this mechanism has not destroyed religion for many, and hence asserts the importance of adequate projections.
This paper highlights the role of ISO 14000 and green purchasing in achieving sustainable development when firms focus their concerns on improving both financial and environmental performance, and asserts the importance of the incorporation of green purchasing into the frame of ISO 14000.
