The importance of the sign industry to the plastics industry, however, is not in terms of volume alone.

Of notable importance is Isaiah 7: 14, where the prophet is assuring king Ahaz that God will save Judah from the invading armies of Israel and Syria ; the sign that will prove this is the forthcoming birth of a child called Emmanuel, " God With Us ".

However, it was a sign of the party's lack of importance that they were not included in the War Cabinet.

The idea or phonic substance that a sign contains is of less importance than the other signs that surround it.

The conflict spread across England and Kenilworth was garrisoned by Henry II's forces ; Geoffrey II de Clinton died in this period and the castle was taken fully into royal possession, a sign of its military importance.

If requested to do so by a petition signed by a majority of the membership of the Seanad, and one-third of the membership of the Dáil, the President may, after consultation with the Council of State, decline to sign into law a bill ( other than a bill to amend the constitution ) he / she considers to be of great " national importance " until it has been approved by either the people in an ordinary referendum or the Dáil reassembling after a general election, held within eight months.

Leonard Nimoy refused to sign up to lend his voice to the series unless Nichelle Nichols and George Takei were added to the cast — claiming that Sulu and Uhura were of importance as they were proof of the ethnic diversity of the 23rd century and should not be recast.

The appointment of the social scientist to the mostly humanistic faculty was an important sign of the change of times, and the growing importance and recognition of the social sciences.

This visit is often cited as a sign of the early importance of the Roman See.

The idea or phonic substance that a sign contains is of less importance than the other signs that surround it.

Civic building was of great importance to these towns as a sign of wealth and pride.

There does not appear to be any such outward sign of a championship at present, and considering the general interest which matches now elicit, and the importance of having the game played fairly and under rules generally recognized, I am willing to give a cup which shall be held from year to year by the winning team.

The name change was a sign of the ever-increasing importance of the cult of the Aten.

The Woolsack in the House of Lords was originally stuffed with wool from the Sudbury area, a sign of both the importance of the wool industry and of the wealth of the donors.

Crystal City welcome sign invoked Popeye to acknowledge the importance of spinach to the area economy and to urge community cleanup.

It had a Senate and a currency of its own, a sign of its importance in the imperial age.

His formal training with the Abbé Vogler at Darmstadt between 1810 and 1812 was however of crucial importance ; at around this time he begins to sign himself ' Meyer Beer '.

Every peculiarity of diction, every particle, every sign, is to be considered as of higher importance, as having a wider relation and as being of deeper meaning than it seems to have.

The planet that rules the astrological sign of the ascendant is called the chart ruler, and is said to be of particular importance.

Other clinical signs of keratoconus will normally have presented themselves long before Munson's sign becomes apparent, and so this finding, though a classic sign of the disease, tends not to be of primary diagnostic importance.

The New Woman placed great importance on her sexual autonomy, although this was difficult to put into practice as society still voiced loud disapproval of any sign of female licentiousness.

In 859, it was bestowed on Charles the Fat, the son of King Louis I, a sign of its importance.

The scallop shells in gold, represents pilgrimage, a sign of the importance of the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from a site near the Mayflower Steps in the Barbican aboard the Mayflower in 1620.

After a failed attempt to sign an anti-German military alliance with France and Britain and talks with Germany regarding a potential political deal, on 23 August 1939, the Soviet Union entered into a non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany, negotiated by Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov and German foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop.

During the meeting, Ribbentrop suggested that Barthou meet Hitler at once to sign a Franco-German non-aggression pact.

Ribbentrop for his part, who valued Japanese friendship far more than Chinese friendship, argued that Germany and Japan should sign the pact even without Chinese participation.

That night, Stalin replied that the Soviets were willing to sign the pact, and that he would receive Ribbentrop on 23 August.

The pact is often interpreted as a sign of their deep patriotism despite both having already surrendered to the English.

On the conclusion of talks in London, Britain agreed to grant Sierra Leone Independence on the 27 of April 1961. however, the outspoken trade unionist Siaka Stevens was the only delegate who refused to sign Sierra Leone's declaration of Independendence on the grounds that there had been a secret defence pact between Sierra Leone and Britain ; another point of contention by Stevens was the Sierra Leonean government's position that there would be no elections held before independence which would effectively shut him out of Sierra Leone's political process.

* 1951 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

* September 1 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.

* April 13 – The Soviet Union and Japan sign a neutrality pact.

* January 16 – El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign a pact in Mexico City ending a 12-year civil war that claimed at least 75, 000 lives.

* January 9 – Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade pact.

During the Second World War, Germany asked Finland several times to sign the pact, but always the Finnish government declined the offer.

What had previously been a belief that some people possessed supernatural abilities ( which were sometimes used to protect the people ) now became a sign of a pact between the people with supernatural abilities and the devil.

He summons Mephisto, who overcomes Faust's reluctance to sign a pact by telling him he can try it for one day with no obligation.

In order to get released Philip was forced to sign a treaty with Henry VII – the so called – which included a mutual defence pact, the extradition of rebels, including the Earl of Suffolk who as an exile was a guest of Philip in the Low Countries, and a trade agreement which allowed English merchants to import cloth duty free in to the Low Countries.

He also traveled to Moscow in 1981 to sign a twenty-year friendship pact with the Soviet Union.

In 1902 it became the first Asian nation to sign a mutual defense pact with a European nation, Britain.

This in turn safeguards the sign of the covenant, the brit milah (" covenant of circumcision ") which is considered the symbol of the everlasting pact between God and the Jewish people.

He had no choice but to sign a nonaggression pact with Berlin the following year.

Germany and the Soviet Union were sworn enemies, but following the Munich Agreement, which effectively handed over Czechoslovakia ( a French and Soviet ally, and the only remaining presidential democracy in Central Europe ) to Germany, political realities allowed the Soviet Union to sign a non-aggression pact ( the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact ) including a secret clause partitioning Poland, the Baltic Republics and Finland between the two spheres of interests.

In 1937, Maniu agreed to sign an electoral pact with the Iron Guard's Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, in the hope that this would block the monarch's maneuvers.

* 3 January-Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan sign a Soviet-mediated peace pact in Tashkent, Uzbek S. S. R.

When the Germans forced the Danish government to sign the anti-Comintern pact, a large protest broke out in Copenhagen.

* 1686: King James II and Louis XIV sign neutrality pact handing forts of St. John's and Port Royal back to the French.