"National significance" refers to something that is important or noteworthy at a countrywide level. It means that a particular event, person, or issue has a significant impact on the entire nation or is considered highly significant for the country as a whole.
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Recent meetings have discussed work on environmental issues of
national significance such as threatened species protection, improving the environment for human health, and climate change.
This is an issue
of national significance that strikes at the heart of our national psyche and has a direct and immediate impact on thousands of our residents.
National Parks, according to the IUCN is «an area reserved for the protection of natural and scenic values of
national significance for the benefit and enjoyment of the general public.»
That Aboriginal child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory be designated as an issue of
urgent national significance by both the Australian and Northern Territory Governments, and both governments immediately establish a collaborative partnership with a Memorandum of Understanding to specifically address the protection of Aboriginal children from sexual abuse.
Recommendation 1: That Aboriginal child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory be designated as an issue of urgent
national significance by both the Australian and Northern Territory Governments, and both governments immediately establish a collaborative partnership with a Memorandum of Understanding to specifically address the protection of Aboriginal children from sexual abuse.
With a special interest in major trauma cases, Trevor is well known for working on high profile cases with
substantial national significance; he was co-lead lawyer on behalf of 60 Jimmy Saville child abuse victims, has represented a number of Thalidomide victims, and currently represents individuals injured in the Croydon tram crash.
Examining the federal level is standard fare in American politics; but shifting our focus to the state level, where campaign finance is smaller — except when state races take
on national significance — provides a natural context to understand the role of groups without the distorting influence of money.
Established May 5, 1980, the sanctuary in the Santa Barbara Channel is an area of
national significance because of its natural environment and resources.
«We published this story because we felt that the content, which comes from the L.A. local Story, was newsworthy and
held national significance.
Although he had held a post of
apparent national significance with the president of the United States, his name had not yet been plastered on the nation's mind by the more powerful instruments of mass publicity.
With the National Marine Sanctuaries Act (NMSA), Congress directs the Secretary of Commerce and NOAA to identify, designate, and manage ocean and Great Lake areas of special
national significance as national marine sanctuaries.
In a case that could have wide -
ranging national significance for gay rights, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that a landmark civil rights law bars employers from discriminating against their workers based on sexual orientation.
Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott was in enemy territory recently, telling the folks at Massachusetts's Pioneer Institute (including some who favor Romney, such as myself [full disclosure]-RRB- about the virtues of the Texas education system, a topic of
national significance now that Rick Perry's chariot has leaped to lead position in the Republican presidential nomination race.
In America, no educational issue is of
greater national significance than ensuring that all children learn to read — fluently and with comprehension — in the primary grades of elementary school.
The report should summarize the program's financial performance to date, and recommend whether the objectives of the program would be best met by continuing the program under the authority of the Secretary, establishing a Government corporation of Government - sponsored enterprise to administer the program, or by relying upon the capital markets to fund projects of regional and
national significance without Federal participation.
The recent determination by the NHSMB that the Maligne Lake buildings are of
national significance rests in the prominent role played by these log structures in the national parks of Canada and too, are illustrative of the central role of outfitters, guides and the competing interests of the railways in park development.
There's time to check out the Queenstown and Arrowtown shops before we visit Janet Blair's garden of
national significance near Lake Hayes and lunch nearby.
Canberra, Australia About Blog The Library's role, as defined by the National Library of Australia Act, is to ensure that documentary resources of
national significance relating to Australia and the Australian people, as well as significant non-Australian library materials, are collected, preserved and made accessible either through the Library itself or through collaborative arrangements with other libraries and information.
«Bob's fingerprints were on every important file of regional and
national significance during his career and he never once pushed his way into a group photo or press release.
Ford was recently recognised as a person of
National Significance for his contribution to an Australian naturalistic approach to landscape design.
The case, British Humanist Association and Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign vs London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster and Secretary of State for Education, is considered of
national significance because of the precedent it will set on the processes by which schools can be set up in the future, and how much those schools will be able to religiously discriminate in admissions.
«We published this story because we felt that the content, which comes from the L.A. local Story, was newsworthy and
held national significance.
The nearby harbour is recognised as a site of
national significance by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust and is also home to the Oamaru Blue Penguin Colony.
Urban Teacher Residency United (UTRU) has launched a Critical Learning Initiative to examine issues of
national significance in support of its network of innovative residency programs.
About the Channel Islands Marine Sanctuary: Established in 1980, the sanctuary is an area
of national significance because of its exceptional natural beauty and resources.
Through several public policy initiatives, NACO represents Angel asset class issues of
national significance, assumes a leadership role in areas requiring national coordination and support, and promotes the Angel asset class to the general public in Canada and abroad.
One side wants to affirm
the national significance of 9/11; the other thinks we've been exploited and led astray by a false patriotism.
This man held a position of
national significance, no, wait — historical importance.
probably had originally
a national significance which we would do well to recapture.
Environment ministers from across Australia met today in Canberra to progress key environment issues of
national significance.
Modernising Australia's approach to managing established pests and diseases of
national significance: Discussion paper
This is a book of
national significance.
Although it would be my preference, if the idea of Labour announcing its next leader and deputy leader (whenever that occurs) exclusively by using open text message and email list is a little too radical, then at the very least the two approaches should function in tandem, so as an announcement of
national significance has a national presence, reaching outside the special conference and not relying on 24 hours news channels for dissemination.