Whether the additional divisional games actually increase the importance of each game is debatable.
Timing the caucus according to traditional work schedules should also increase the importance of the Mormon vote.
That will increase the importance of universities to cities' economies: without them, attracting skilled workers will be difficult.
They include a host of other measures that would increase the importance of due diligence before a stock market listing.
TURKEY'S refusal to give America the full support it requested is bound to increase the importance of the Kurdish guerrilla forces in the war for northern Iraq.
In the letter, the officials said they had consolidated several regional categories with relatively few entries – Cajun, Hawaiian and Native American Music – into one "regional roots music" competition to increase the importance of the award.
"Any expansion of investment banking would increase the importance of ensuring ring fencing is rigorously applied," said the Treasury Select Committee chairman Andrew Tyrie, who has called for stronger ring-fencing of retail institutions.
But what if inequality results not from (or not merely from) technological shifts that increase the importance of higher education, but instead from a reduction in the supply of highly-educated workers?
Thus, legal rulings that weaken the effect of the Voting Rights Act will tend to increase the importance of the 2020 elections, when control of the redistricting process will be at stake.
"During a long period of time, the strategy in this battle was based on the idea of fumigation, and now what we want to do, from a strategic viewpoint, is increase the importance of voluntary interdiction," said Gonzalo de Francisco, President Andres Pastrana's special adviser on the Putumayo Province, where the program is beginning.
