Sentences with phrase «gives considerable importance»

Moreover, the position of the heavenly bodies at that time in the 2nd century reinforces the theory that the building was constructed for Mithraic worship, a religion that gave considerable importance to the constellations.

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Given the importance of this admittedly vague objective in accreditation standards, we believe that this admission by faculty members is a matter of considerable concern, and we have addressed this issue elsewhere in our research report.

Many of us have been giving considerable attention in recent decades to the importance of cultural context: you can't preach exactly the same sermon in a suburban Omaha church as you would to a congregation in rural Thailand.

«Surely it can not be unreasonable,» he says, «that before God delivers us from a state of sin and liability to everlasting woe, he should give us some considerable sense of the evil from which he delivers us, in order that we may know and feel the importance of salvation, and be enabled to appreciate the value of what God is pleased to do for us.

«Given the tremendous power of media outlets to set the agenda for public discussion, the ideological and policy perspectives of those who own media outlets have considerable importance for the nature of American democracy and public policy,» the researchers write in their Science report.

At a time when society seems to have given up believing in facts, relying on a sense of «blind faith» instead, the body and mind binary has gained considerable importance in contemporary art.