In the case of Guantanamo, the administration, for a while, cast its actions as less important than Newsweek's.
Students willing to work in a rural area ranked infrastructure as more important than students who were unwilling, while female students ranked infrastructure as less important than male students.
Students studying in Kumasi ranked contract length as more important than those in Accra, while international students ranked contract length as less important than Ghanaian students.
These are startling figures, though less important than Sumner claims.
"For a while, the draft became less important than stockpiling your salary-cap money and grabbing the big talent.
There are still many acousticians who maintain that a knowledge of the technical issues, while helpful, is less important than experience and a repertoire of acoustically successful designs that one can fall back on in a pinch.
While symbols are less important than action, that's not to say that symbols aren't important.
While it may sound less important than the product or business model, the culture of a company plays a major role in shaping its success.
The recipes, while not exactly afterthoughts, are less important than his insistence that cooking itself is transformative.
While German viewers find humour less important than "conflict, drama and emotion", French viewers like plenty of talk and little action, while Americans stress comedy.
While the report is considered less important than the Labor Department's measure of job growth, which will be released tomorrow, the strong number took many in the market by surprise.
