Sentences with phrase «assuming new significance»

Found photographs — often timeworn snapshots of family and friends — are re-presented in the gallery space, assuming new significance.

Tradition has assumed a new significance for Protestants in a period dominated by the historical understanding of human life.

After he endured a painful 72 hours of globe - crossing travel, «Out of the depths I cry to you» assumed new significance from the crypt of the cathedral at the bottom of the world.

A mainstay of Ofili's drawing practice, the «afro head» assumes new significance in the context of The Agony in the Garden, 2007, a suite of eleven intaglio prints.

This barrier assumes a new significance in light of the ever - increasing numbers of litigants involved in civil court proceedings without counsel, numbers which represent anywhere from 50 % to 80 % of the court docket depending on the jurisdiction you're looking at.

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This also assumes significance when the market is witnessing the launch of new e-readers like the Alex e-reader while Barnes and Nook too is tying up to make its Nook available from the Best Buy stores.

His statement assumes significance in the light of a meeting of «governments, leaders from finance, business, local government and civil society» in New York in September this year to «bring bold and new announcements and action» to keep the earth below the globally agreed two degree temperature riNew York in September this year to «bring bold and new announcements and action» to keep the earth below the globally agreed two degree temperature rinew announcements and action» to keep the earth below the globally agreed two degree temperature rise.

Climate change talks are poised at a critical stage before the Conference of Parties meets in Paris in 2015 to finalise a new treaty, and India's alliances with developing countries assume significance at this point.

In a decades - long survey of leading journals, from the American Economic Review to the New England Journal of Medicine, we find that eight or nine of every 10 articles assumes that statistical significance demonstrates scientific, economic, or other human importance, and that a lack of statistical significance — statistical «insignificance,» or a p - value greater than.05 — indicates a lack of importance.

January 1 is just another date in the calendar but it always assumes that extra significance as people worldwide use it as a clean sheet and the catalyst to start their new year with a set of actions, intentions and resolutions that they have been putting off in the past.