Sentence examples for importance occupied from inspiring English sources

Other things of more importance occupied him now.

Maintenance of the jury as a factfinding body is of such importance, and occupies so firm a place in our history and jurisprudence, that any seeming curtailment of the right to a jury trial should be scrutinized with the utmost care.

American universities, Eagleton points out, are happy to reward talent even when it is heterodox, and as a result Greenblatt has been propelled up the professional ladder until he now finds himself in the position of importance that Wimsatt occupied at Yale in the early 60s.

First, you descend into the newly renovated 81st Street subway stop on the B and C lines, and quickly come to the realization that Homo sapiens new yorkus, circa 2000 -- despite its vaunted sense of self-importance -- occupies only the tiniest of places in the earth's biological lineup.

Another essential in gauging the importance of Occupy Wall Street is recognizing that the Occupy movement did not simply fizzle out or lose steam.

The city first achieved importance under the Moors, who occupied it in the 8th century and built a castle (ruins remain); it was re-Christianized by James I of Aragon in 1265.

Almost a year later, waiting to see his request fulfilled, Faham wrote again: "Without a shadow of a doubt, matters of supreme importance have kept you too occupied to deal with my petty request.

This procedure generated an importance value reflecting the volume occupied by each species rather than its projected cover.

Its high-roof-style structures date back more than 2,000 years; interior details often reflected the importance of the people who occupied them.

But neither of these observations should detract from the importance of Occupy Central.

But between 1914 and 1918, Barrow occupied a position of enormous importance.