Bahrain's oil production has always been small by Middle Eastern standards, and refining crude oil imported from Saudi Arabia has been of much greater importance since vast oil fields were discovered on the mainland; in 1998 Bapco began a major modernization project for its refinery.
Next Tuesday, the human rights court will rule on a UK case of much greater importance.
Of much greater importance are genetic matching, physical characteristics and the time required to bring organ and recipient together.
However, from a practical point of view, cases where superposition cannot be applied have much greater importance.
For crystallization, however, it is of much greater importance that the protein itself is pure i.e., chemically and conformationally homogeneous.
Miniature paintings, introduced in Persia, assumed much greater importance in the later period in Mughal India and Turkey.
Secondly, more than a decade after the 2000 Camp David Summit, Asia in general, and China in particular, has assumed much greater importance in US foreign policy.
Outside of cities, most GP/hospital out-patient services are offered by health centres, which have a much greater importance than in the UK.
Like many other of the large towns in the Shan states, it was formerly of much greater importance, but now it barely comprises 200 houses.
"Fiscal policy is of much greater importance than forex or monetary policy and they need to spend it," she said, referring to foreign exchange rates.
The new central organs and the administrative bodies of the territories took on much greater importance than the remaining institutions of the Holy Roman Empire.
