Sentence examples for reduced in importance from inspiring English sources

Secondly, the importance of the conflicting belief, ie, engaging in unsafe sex, was reduced in importance by believing that condom use was not very important because one can get infected anyway if one is predestined to die from AIDS.

It was reduced in importance after the Reformation and the Swedish conquest in 1658 but developed rapidly after 1850.

That special status was modified and reduced in importance by a new agreement between church and state in 1985.

In mammals a secondary palate is formed by processes of the maxillary bones and the palatines, with the pterygoid bones reduced in importance.

Many of these industries have either disappeared (as in the case of shipbuilding) or been reduced in importance through loss of markets or transfer to the city's periphery.

Though now reduced in importance after the introduction of the Lisbon Treaty, the six-month presidency of the European Union gives countries responsibility for steering a range of policies from agriculture to labor laws.

Financial transfers will therefore reduce in importance relative to other areas of action (such as trade and regulation).

It is a kind of negative progress to discard, set aside or reduce in importance aspects of the debate that are red herrings or have become too central.

The stains of Watergate could be reduced in political importance if Nixon could eliminate some of the fears & misgivings about the state of the economy.

In the north the ancient ports of Berbera and Seylac, much reduced in prosperity and importance, were now controlled by Somali nomads, and the position of the old ports of Marca, Baraawe, and Mogadishu was very similar.

Levels of several mediators of arthritis pathogenesis, synovial hyperplasia and articular damage were also reduced in DA.F344(congenicsngenics, underscoring the importance of the gene accounting for this locus.