Sentences with phrase «attribute much significance»

There are a number of tasks that you may have done in a babysitting role that you either do not remember now or did not attribute much significance to at that time.

When we ask children what their most treasured memories are, their typical responses are «camping overnight in the backyard with Daddy,» «baking cookies with Grandma,» or «playing in mountains of snow with friends» — small moments that we adults may not think they attribute much significance to.

courts attributed much significance to the clearly religious origins and content of the challenged practices, and to the impossibility of avoiding sectarian controversy in their conduct.

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So the real way Burke succumbed to «historicism» — or something like it — was in attributing too much significance to a particular political event, and so in having too little confidence in (or at least faith in) in the resilience of human nature.