Sentence examples for somehow more important from inspiring English sources

For too long, too many in the federal establishment have seen their role as somehow more important than that of state and local enforcement.

And every year, the BBC trots out the Sports Personality of the Year trophy, as if being personable is somehow more important than being good at, well, sport.

Yet were the MPAA and NATO to waive the ratings rules whenever we believed that a particular movie had merit, or was somehow more important than other movies, we would no longer be neutral parties applying consistent standards, but rather censors of content based on personal mores".

I mean, there's not some marginal buyer who thinks that diamonds are somehow more important to him than water, so how could it be that water's got a much lower price than diamonds and everybody would say that it's more valuable?" Well, to answer that question what we have to do is we have to imagine that people are capable of consuming more than one good.

The long fight-back has begun but, even now, there is a prevailing media assumption that a hyped-up West End extravaganza such as Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is somehow more "important" than, say, a new Royal Court play by Polly Stenham; that in itself is a direct legacy of a decade in which "bums on seats" became a more significant criterion of judgment than "ideas in heads".

We are in the winter de-stocking period so a withdrawal from inventory is normal but the previous week saw an addition to stocks that made this withdrawal seem somehow more important.

Three years ago, the supposed threat from Saddam somehow became more important than catching the people who actually attacked America on 9/11.

Today, the mild, possibly nonexistent long-run financial problems of Social Security have somehow become more important than dealing with the huge deficit we already have, which has nothing to do with Social Security.

He makes the preposterously feeble and easily refuted argument that he can somehow render more important "service" by clocking another two or six years in Albany and then doing something else, some unspecified something, than he could by spending the remaining decades of his life on the Supreme Court of the United States, that semi-sovereign institution of almost godlike power.

It looks like a calculator, a phone, a volume pedal and a digital clock glued to a piece of cardboard, yet it is a gestalt artifact and somehow seems more important than that.

Pikotaro was unable to make it to Washington, citing a scheduling conflict that somehow was more important than meeting the president's daughter in person.