And he has been strikingly successful at getting his brethren to give less importance to a statute's legislative history.
At that time they attached less importance to this invention than to improvements they had made simultaneously in colour photography.
"Some designers were encouraged by the design criticism culture of the time to put less importance to it," Kinchin said.
Culturally, we tend to associate leadership with extroversion and attach less importance to judgment, vision and mettle.
Fidelity to a subject, or to history, was of less importance to Rose, as she implied in a placating letter to Chaplin, than a "corking" tale.
But liberals assigned much less importance to the three moral systems that protect the group, those of loyalty, respect for authority and purity.
The ultra-Orthodox, who make up 5% of the population, traditionally attach less importance to land than some more secular Israelis.
They assign less importance to the gap between aggregate demand and supply in determining inflation, and more importance to the stance of monetary policy.
Now, because so much consumer debt is packaged into securities and sold to investors, repayment of the loans takes on less importance to those lenders than the fees and charges generated when loans are made.
It's apparent that theatrical distribution will become of less importance to a generation that's accustomed to watching movies on a computer, and I've noticed, anecdotally, a practical effect of this habit.
Are critics like Serge Daney or Leo Steinberg any lesser a critic, have any lesser a project or point, or of any less importance to their fields, as critics, for not being active artists?
