they listened and suddenly a step towards the door announced another important fact.

This is an important step because any misalignment would cause progressively worse misalignment in the hull as you advance in construction.

Astrometry is an important step in the cosmic distance ladder because it establishes parallax distance estimates for stars in the Milky Way.

Although the Atanasoff – Berry Computer was an important step up from earlier calculating machines, it was not able to run entirely automatically through an entire problem.

Asymptotes convey information about the behavior of curves in the large, and determining the asymptotes of a function is an important step in sketching its graph.

Although this shift was an important one, it did not represent a radical break from the past so much as a small step in a broader, more gradual socio-economic movement that had been going on at least since 1907 when van de Velde had argued for a craft basis for design while Hermann Muthesius had begun implementing industrial prototypes.

This is an important step in the recognition of Breton and other minority languages of France ; however, it doesn't explicitly give more actual recognition, rights or funds to these languages.

The office of Tribune of the Plebs was an important step in the political career of plebeians.

It was an important step for a leading female novelist to write a biography of another, and Gaskell's approach was unusual in that, rather than analysing her subject's achievements, she concentrated on private details of Charlotte's life, emphasising aspects which countered accusations of ' coarseness ' which had been levelled at her writing.

The idea that this gathering agreed to uphold Irish laws governing the church has suggested that it was an important step in the gaelicisation of the lands east of Druim Alban.

Measuring the dimensions of a subject while blocking in the drawing is an important step in producing a realistic rendition of the subject.

Classifying ecosystems into ecologically homogeneous units is an important step towards effective ecosystem management, but there is no single, agreed-upon way to do this.

In his work Foundations of Natural Right ( 1796 ), Fichte argued that self-consciousness was a social phenomenon — an important step and perhaps the first clear step taken in this direction by modern philosophy.

If the raw material is hides and skin, size reduction, washing, removing hair from the hides, and de-greasing are the most important pretreatments used to make the hides and skins ready for the main extraction step.

A view of the remains of the Cluny Abbey | Abbey of Cluny, a Rule of St. Benedict | Benedictine monastery, was the centre of monastic life revival in the Middle Ages and marked an important step in the cultural rebirth following the Early Middle Ages | Dark Ages.

The reign of Philip II Augustus ( junior king 1179 – 1180, senior king 1180 – 1223 ) marked an important step in the history of French monarchy.

Although the step pyramid for King Zoser of the 3rd Dynasty was important for the reason that it had exemplified unbelievable skill and the introduction of building with stone, it was also very symbolic.

His classification of plants in his Historia Plantarum, was an important step towards modern taxonomy.

In terms of the impact of Mysterium, it can be seen as an important first step in modernizing Copernicus ' theory.

Although it did no computation based on them, it is considered an important step in the history of computing hardware.

The decision was welcomed by many western nations and was seen as an important step toward Libya rejoining the international community.

This was an important step toward the atomic theory that he would propose later that year, and it laid the basis for chemical formulas for compounds.

While advancement of research proves that targeting and distribution can be augmented by nanoparticles, the dangers of nanotoxicity become an important next step in further understanding of their medical uses.

A long evolution in an oral tradition caused the poetic language of the heroic age to be based upon formulas that show the important qualities of things, and these formulas are therefore potentially rather than always actually accurate.

Evolutionary explanations for aesthetical preferences are important parts of evolutionary musicology, Darwinian literary studies, and the study of the evolution of emotion.

He describes Christ and his mission on earth of bringing individuated consciousness as having a particularly important place in human evolution, whereby:

The development of the anus was an important stage in the evolution of multicellular animals.

As a military writer, his position in the evolution of the art of war is very important, and his doctrines had naturally the greatest weight.

Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity unique to humans, and some scientists believe the advent of cooking played an important role in human evolution.

The Cretaceous was also an important interval in the evolution of bioerosion, the production of borings and scrapings in rocks, hardgrounds and shells ( Taylor and Wilson, 2003 ).

Grass also played a very important role in this era, shaping the evolution of the birds and mammals that fed on it.

On the other hand, one of those who criticized Haeckel's drawings, Michael Richardson, has argued that " Haeckel's much-criticized drawings are important as phylogenetic hypotheses, teaching aids, and evidence for evolution ".

Another important physiological change related to sexuality in humans was the evolution of hidden estrus.

Genetic data can provide important insight into human evolution.

Falsifiability is an important concept within the creation – evolution controversy, where proponents of both sides claim that Popper developed falsifiability to denote ideas as unscientific or pseudoscientific and use it to make arguments against the views of the respective other side.

Hence interactions between these galaxies are relatively frequent, and play an important role in their evolution.

This is an important document in the evolution of the rule of law and the rights of subjects.

The relationship between virulence and transmission is complex, and has important consequences for the long term evolution of a pathogen.

Also important in Bergson's philosophy was the idea of élan vital, the life force, which " brings about the creative evolution of everything " His philosophy also placed a high value on intuition, though without rejecting the importance of the intellect.

In evolution, the most important role of such chromosomal rearrangements may be to accelerate the divergence of a population into new species by making populations less likely to interbreed, and thereby preserving genetic differences between these populations.

Sequences of DNA that can move about the genome, such as transposons, make up a major fraction of the genetic material of plants and animals, and may have been important in the evolution of genomes.

This rapid evolution is important in medicine, as it has led to the recent development of ' super-bugs ' — pathogenic bacteria that are resistant to modern antibiotics.

In 2010, the Mecca area became an important site for paleontology with respect to primate evolution, with the discovery of a Saadanius fossil.

In other words, natural selection is an important process ( though not the only process ) by which evolution takes place within a population of organisms.

Although a complete theory of evolution also requires an account of how genetic variation arises in the first place ( such as by mutation and sexual reproduction ) and includes other evolutionary mechanisms ( such as genetic drift and gene flow ), natural selection appears to be the most important mechanism for creating complex adaptations in nature.

The study of the abundances of lithium and beryllium in open cluster stars can give important clues about the evolution of stars and their interior structures.

" The State has been the most important factor in the evolution of the institution of property be it public or private.