Sentence examples for importance would be from inspiring English sources

Not many issues of national concern and importance would be that enclosed.

But the senior official said there was no real concern in the administration that nothing of importance would be found.

This social importance would be underlined with the outbreak of the second world war in 1939, during which as estimated 25 million Soviet citizens died.

If the government backed these large infrastructure projects, as in France, their importance would be recognised, helping to restore engineering's contribution to our economy and society.

Analysts and money managers have buying and selling stocks based on predictions of who would be added, who would be dropped and whose importance would be reduced.

All this might seem strange – that in a country organised around the idea of separation of church and state such importance would be granted to the faith of the highest elected leader in the land.

Anywhere else, Vesterback's buoyancy and self-importance would be grating, but his enthusiasm is infectious and this is a fabulous of the little guy sticking it to the man.

Since 2006, Quinn's Louth Contemporary Music Society has been programming events of international importance that would be the pride of any major city.

• "If there was a scale of importance, Bob would be at the top," Lonn Trost, the Yankees' chief operating office, said later when I called him.

If all public figures showed such fatigue in the face of their own importance, we would be spared a lot of creaking shelves in Barnes & Noble.

Asked in a question-and-answer session afterward about apparent American intelligence failures in Iraq, he acknowledged that it was a question of crucial importance that would be examined by the commission appointed Friday by President Bush, but emphasized that the panel would look at intelligence successes as well as shortcomings.