Sentence examples for importance rests from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

And as with any event of that size and – being a football fan at heart – importance, rest assured that hip Internet companies will be scrambling to lay some easter eggs.

With our standing in Europe hopelessly vitiated and the Commonwealth uninterested in its imperial parent, fantasies of Britain's global importance rest precariously on this single leg.