The complexity of his character, the power of his prose and the abiding importance of his subjects make him a writer to argue with and confront as well as to admire.
The motivation and inspiration behind this book is to deliver a thorough text that focuses on the evolution of test technology, provides insight about the abiding importance of discussed topics, records today's state of the art and industrial practices and trends, reveals the challenges for emerging testing methodologies, and envisages the future of this journey.
The abiding importance of illusions came to mind the other day because of an article about a workplace placebo.
Anne Whiston Spirn, professor of landscape architecture and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has written that he recorded, understood and celebrated "the natural and built world," and also "quietly asserted the abiding importance of the garden and the practical, sensual, and traditional qualities of materials, craft and design".
When I spoke to her then, she cited the intimately confessional photographers Nan Goldin and Richard Billingham as her creative mentors alongside film-makers Terrence Malick, Andrei Tarkovsky and John Cassavetes, and spoke passionately about "the abiding importance" of Robert Bresson's book, Notes on the Cinematographer.
But the abiding importance of Indonesia, whatever its government, is its place at the heart of the Malay world — 350 million people linked by linguistic and cultural similarities that often transcend political and religious boundaries.
This book explores in rich visual detail the abiding importance of Oxford as both location and experience in Waugh's works.
In their communiqué, the ministers stressed the "importance of abiding by and strengthening existing multilateral nonproliferation and export control regimes and international arms control and disarmament accords".
Tkachev said in comments carried by the Interfax news agency that the views of Pussy Riot "are not supported by the majority of people in the region" but stressed the importance of abiding the law.
The book, like the movie, tells the tale of a pair of bored children who happen upon a mysterious board game that brings the jungle environment, complete with wildlife and hunters, to their home, all while stressing the importance of abiding by and paying keen attention to rules as well as seeing all tasks through to their ends.
