Sentences with phrase «growing significance of»

«In particular, the changing age structure of the Canadian population and the growing significance of immigration will likely favour certain forms of housing and certain geographical areas.»

«The protocol underscores the growing significance of cross-border legal business between our two countries and the increasingly global nature of the practice of law.»

Over the past decade, the growing significance of Berlin as an international art centre, rivalling New York and London, conceals a complex and longstanding exchange between German and American art through which German artists have both cultivated and resisted their role within an international art «mainstream».

Author Will McInnis senses the growing significance of readers who hold the answer of the future book industry.

Chinese buyers will get the new Mercedes - Maybach S - Class first, a bold decision which emphasizes the growing significance of the local audience.

As an indication of the growing significance of man - made earthquakes on seismic hazard, SSA annual meeting will feature a special session to discuss new research findings and approaches to incorporating induced seismicity into seismic hazard assessments and maps.

The China phenomenon is frequently depicted at official and unofficial levels as having put European - US ties under strain, mostly arising from a confluence of the growing significance of Asia in US economic and strategic policy; Europe's political and economic malaise; and China's more confident and assertive external policies that include the prospect of enhanced financial and economic ties between major European countries and China.

And since the Old Testament word for angel, as that of the New Testament, means also messenger, it is a legitimate suspicion that these narratives preserve reminiscences of the growing significance of the prophetic movement, which comes into clear focus just a little later in First Samuel.

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The significance of low birth rates, of course, is that there are fewer persons in the workforce to support the growing ranks of retirees.

«It's also important for us not to be too blinded to the fact that there's important science going on in other areas, and so what we want to look for are significant opportunities to have leading positions in growing areas of therapeutic significance going forward,» he said.

So it's hard to underestimate the significance of McNamee's increasingly public criticism of Facebook over the last couple of years, particularly in the light of the growing Cambridge Analytica storm.

It's probably not fair to blame the FTC for missing the significance of this merger, since Instagram has grown fast over the past four years.

The significance of golden visa programmes and their influence on real estate market will grow, especially in times of economic uncertainty.»

Social Media Significance: the report, although indicating growing usage of social media, does not affirm soundly that social media influence has grown significantly.

And in the process there was an erosion of Augustinianism that emphasized the soteriological significance either of human will in a form of synergism or of human cooperation with the divine and a growing attack on such classic Protestant doctrines as limited atonement and predestination.

As the Church explores this, our understanding of the significance of a male priesthood is likely to grow.

Such issues as slavery, the status of women, and political freedom, the virtues of scientific honesty and integrity, the freedom of the spirit in worship, all such ethical concerns which have grown in significance throughout Christian history are in part at least implicit in the new life, but they are not explicit, and the reason for that must be sought in the historical situation into which the Gospel came.

The initiative is aimed at helping people «understand the true value and significance of the liturgy as an essential part of growing closer to God».

I did grow up christian, however, in Sunday School they never taught much more than «Love Jesus» and told us some of the stories without really explaining the significance.

We hope that a sense of the sweep and variety and significance of what appears to be a growing theological movement will be evident.

An abundant system of language and significance seems to come with any congregation, whether growing or declining, be it as flashy as the Crystal Cathedral or as lukewarm as Laodicea.

Both universal and home - grown signals, their combinations, and the rules regarding their significance form the idiom of the local church.

The Christian is bound to believe that in its growing apprehension of the significance of Jesus, the church was led by the Spirit who informs it to discern more and more of the meaning of the Man of Nazareth.

What he said was of course familiar in non-Catholic circles for a long time; yet the way in which he said it, with the consequences of that pronouncement in his own communion, is an indication of a growing consensus about the right place and real significance of Scripture in the Christian tradition.

The document praises the power of Holy Communion «to assist a person in growing in their union with Christ,» and especially Viaticum or final communion, which «has a power of particular significance and importance as the seed of eternal life and the power of resurrection.»

In this faith, we grow up by learning to come down, to let go, to release our grip on our claims of self - sufficiency and self - significance and self - perpetuation.

As we grow in faith the significance of the cross for the journey of faith shifts.

In the latter case, the problem is not that these psychiatrists believe that religion is harmful; but rather having themselves grown up in a culture where religion was innocuous, they can not see the significance of religion for good or ill.

Obviously then, the term person became one of incomparable significance for Christian thought, while its importance for the western philosophical tradition grew in proportion.

In Buddhism particularly, we can discern a growing tendency to absolutize the significance of the master's person: he became divine in the «northern» schools; pious believers even multiplied his person ad infinitum.

Alongside my kids, I'm growing and learning the meaning and significance of gratitude.

The significance of healing this loving connection with our kindred spirits are essential to fulfilling and growing our spirits bigger and brighter

Now we know it is just brain science: children learn (grow, feel safe, thrive) best when they feel connection — or as Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs taught us, «a sense of belonging and significance».

These findings add to a growing body of evidence that has suggested breastfeeding may have multiple health and other benefits for children.12 28 The particular significance of the present findings is that they show the cognitive benefits that are associated with breastfeeding are unlikely to be short - lived and appear to persist until at least young adulthood.

In line with the growing socio - economic and political significance of immigration, Europe has seen a wide range of policy measures aiming at either halting migrants from reaching Europe or deterring them from settling in their preferred countries of destination (Gibney 2004).

In addition to Mr. Skelos, a healthy string of ambitious Democratic citywide and local elected officials have made the soup - ladling trek, which says nothing of their efforts to pay tribute to other prominent Jewish social service organizations but also speaks volumes about the community's growing political significance.

In a wide - ranging interview last week, a relaxed version of the typically buttoned - down Negron spoke about his personal reaction to the «unfathomable» tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, growing up with seven brothers in what sounds like an austere household, and the significance of using fewer words and saying them slowly.

But Cuomo in the interview leaned more heavily on the significance of the negotiations on increasing the wage, which will grow to $ 15 in New York City by the end of 2018, a slower rate for the suburban counties around the city and to $ 12.50 north of Westchester County.

They played down the significance of the upcoming race, insisting they're not thinking politics — despite the growing war chests they're amassing.

«Given the significance of this hallowed land, please join me and a growing chorus of organizations like the Anti-Defamation League in our call for maximum transparency on the plans to build a Cordoba Mosque at the sight of the worst terrorist attack in American history.»

In acknowledging the efforts of President Buhari and the significance of the Nigerian economy on the continent of Africa, President Trump promised to grow trade and commercial ties between the two countries to create wealth and jobs for the benefit of their citizens.

Sitting on stage beside his wife, Dinkins grew emotional at times as Chirlane McCray, de Blasio and Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito detailed the significance of his mayoralty, used his iconic phrase — «gorgeous mosaic» — to describe the city and thanked him for helping to inspire their political careers.

As you know, the significance of outyear budget projections has been growing in recent years, as Congress and the President seek, by somewhat different paths, to eliminate the federal deficit and balance the budget.

Although researchers do not yet know the biological significance of these discoveries, they say that fully cataloguing the genome may help them understand how genetic variations affect the risk of contracting diseases such as cancer as well as how humans grow from a single - celled embryo into an adult.

The role of patenting at academic institutions has grown in significance since the passage of the Bayh - Dole Act in 1980, which transferred intellectual property revenue based on federally funded research discoveries from government to universities.

Whilst the signal of Proxima b remains strong and growing in significance, the longer - term signal is more mysterious.

By revealing the molecular mechanisms that control neuroinflammation, these findings add a new layer of complexity to our understanding of multiple sclerosis and support the growing appreciation of the significance of the crosstalk between the peripheral immune system and the brain.

In pointing out the significance of the above findings, it is important to note that, over a period of time in which the bulk of the modern rise in atmospheric CO2 has occurred, not only have the majority of glaciers from this large region of Antarctica not retreated, they have collectively grown!

Epub 2007 Sep 7) the evidence concluded that sitting was a ``... potentially major clinical and public health significance... the dire concern for the future may rest with growing numbers of people unaware of the potential insidious dangers of sitting too much.»

I remember growing up, hearing the Christmas story and the gifts the wise men brought and wondering what the significance of Frankincense and Myrrh were.