Accordingly, in an "eco eco" (ECO) trade-off, importance should be given to both economic benefits as well as to several ecological measures.
Everyone noticed their absence, even if the big three tried to brush off their importance.
But yesterday he shrugged off the importance of his Forbes listing and said wealth should not be equated with success.
He was full of the glossy self-regard of men who shrugged off their importance in a way that only emphasized it.
Moreover, no one on the left should shrug off the importance of issues bundled up in that awful word "aspiration", and an enduring Labour problem with the shires and suburbs that has bugged the British left since the 1920s.
On the one hand, they shrugged off the importance of the honor — they had gone on to colleges where valedictorians were so plentiful that to have claimed bragging rights would have been seriously uncool.
But by the late 19th century, while some artists like Manet, Whistler and Audrey Beardsley showed off their importance by dressing as dandies, others were consumed by the sheer martyrdom of being an artist.
The Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake, writing from a country where one of the main presidential frontrunners is Donald Trump, writes off the importance of alliances and elections in Iran because he is not satisfied that reformist-backed candidates in Iran are reformist enough.
The celebration tipped off the importance of that goal".
Hamilton, who has collected only eight points in the last two races, also shrugged off the importance of Saturday's meeting with Horner.
The Mets have shrugged off the importance of finishing third; but the team has finished fourth, in the same spot, for the past four years.
