Sentence examples for importance rested from inspiring English sources

A not very remarkable stream whose great importance rested for several centuries on its location!

In Hanseatic times Bremen's importance rested almost entirely on its character as a trading centre and as a seaport for handling raw materials and foodstuffs.

As a scholar, his importance rested on his 1795 "Prolegomena to Homer" — an enormously successful book, though only the first volume ever appeared and it was written in Latin — which argued that the Iliad and the Odyssey were collections of originally oral poems, assembled by the poet-scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.

Dance Theater Workshop's importance rests in its support of artists who truly push and pull at the boundaries and hearts of their art form.

The wrappers are the most eye-catching element of the Guggenheim design, but it would be a mistake to think the project's importance rests entirely on Mr. Gehry's ability to sculpture arresting shapes.

Here, among petty mafia mobsters, vaudeville entertainers and local politicians of lapsed importance, rests an American citizen who was jointly responsible for three of the greatest operas ever composed.

Though the White Stripes are an aggressively eclectic band, both musically and lyrically ("The Union Forever," one of the highlights of "White Blood Cells," is cobbled together entirely from dialogue drawn from "Citizen Kane"), the strongest case for their importance rests on their simplest songs.

C. 1106 Shirvan, Azerbaijan c. 1190 Tabrīz, Iran Khāqānī, in full Afẓal al-Dīn Bādil Ibrāhīm ibn ʿAlī Khāqānī Shīrvānī (born c. 1106, Shīrvān, Seljuq empire [now Azerbaijan] died c. 1190, Tabrīz, Iran) Persian poet, whose importance rests mainly on his brilliant court poems, satires, and epigrams.

Godwin's philosophical importance rests principally on his Political Justice.

In light of the hip-hop generation's potential for re-identification and reassessment, Writing the Future of Black America's importance rests in its timeliness.

But Rosenzweig's singular philosophical importance rests almost entirely on his having written what is arguably the greatest work of modern Jewish philosophy: The Star of Redemption.