The official spokesman for the prime minister, David Cameron, sought to shrug off the significance of the article, telling a Westminster media briefing: "I read in the Times of London Premier Li's article when he said this was a great nation.
He further noted that the "profound significance of this article ... came about through accident, rather than design".
Cultural appropriation is the practice of borrowing traditional artifacts, customs, rituals, or dress from another culture, often done without regard for the significance of such articles in their society of origin.
To appreciate the significance of James Risen's article in yesterday's Times about an 11th-hour Iraqi peace offer last March, it helps to think back to that period.
The significance of the PNAS article lies not so much in its specific proposals as in the possibility that it signals the start of such a realignment.
Article 81 contains three clauses which seem of significance: Article 81 1b) and Article 81(2) and Article 81(2a).
Both factors apply to Brazil, which under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has sought a more powerful role as a regional power of global significance (see article).The diversification of Latin America's economic ties has raised in some minds a nagging question: does it foreshadow geopolitical changes?
Fisher's exact test was used to measure the significance of observing the number of articles co-mentioning terms given the number of articles mentioning the terms individually [ 35].
In this paper we focus on the latter aspect and use our new, countrywide glacial geomorphological mapping of the Irish landscape (>39 000 landforms), and our analysis of the palaeo-glaciological significance of observed landform assemblages (article Part 1), to build an ice sheet reconstruction yielding these fundamental ice sheet properties.
Israel explains the significance of the understated Times article: "The arrested priests were agitating for a fascist coup d'etat," and if these had been rogue priests, "the Vatican would have disciplined them and perhaps issued a statement condemning them; it certainly would not have [held] top-level conferences to manage their defense".
