National importance As a charity, the BPMA depends on £2m of annual funding from Royal Mail and though the archive has been designated as being of outstanding national importance, the rest of the collection enjoys no such protection.
At an age when many folks are polishing their golf game, Mr. Levitt spent almost a decade in grueling regulatory and legislative skirmishes whose importance the rest of us are only now beginning to understand.
The importance of a single match (they could go four points clear of Seattle) smacks up against the importance of the rest of the season.
"Staten Island doesn't have any strategic importance to the rest of the world," said Vitaly Korobov, a West Brighton resident.
Guido Westerwelle, the foreign minister, also called for Italy to swiftly form a "stable and functioning government," stressing its importance for the rest of Europe.
Since such agreements are becoming commonplace, and since South Korea chose a modest and distant trading partner, Chile, for its first foray into tariff-free trade, it would be easy to dismiss the treaty's importance to the rest of Asia.
But in studying Chinese and Arabic, Simpfendorfer has earned the ability to comment intelligently on the relationship between these two great cultures and its pivotal importance to the rest of the world, as he done in his timely new book "The New Silk Road".
In "James Baldwin's Turkish Decade" (Duke; $24.95), Magdalena J. Zaborowska, a professor of immigrant and African-American literature, sets out to explain not only the enduring attraction the city had for Baldwin but its importance for the rest of his career.
When candidates feel pressure to raise large sums of money to be competitive, wealthy individuals and other corporate and special interest groups grow in influence and importance while the rest of us are pushed ever more into the sidelines of our democracy.
Add to that Afghanistan's lawlessness and ability to produce vast amounts of opium, not to mention Pakistan's wretched history of venal democrats and clumsy dictators, and its lamentable record on nuclear proliferation, and it is clear why what happens in those two places is of huge importance to the rest of the world.
Wenger acknowledged the boost that Sunday's game will give the victors saying: "The game on Sunday will have a psychological importance for the rest of the season".
