Its political importance now ended, but its temple of Adonis and Aphrodite Amathusia remained famous in Roman times.

Its early history reveals that the maritime importance of the island dates back to pre-Dorian times.

Its importance waned somewhat when the French king, Charles VII, took the city at the end of the Hundred Years ' War and the Adour changed course shortly afterwards, leaving Bayonne without its access to the sea.

Its importance has been consolidated by successful large-scale forward genetic screens ( commonly referred to as the Tübingen / Boston screens ).

Its importance was instead conveyed by the height of the tower ( prasat ) rising above it, by its location at the centre of the temple, and by the greater decoration on its walls.

Its supposed fundamental importance to life can be seen in words such as aspire, inspire, perspire and spirit, all derived from the Latin spirare.

Its central importance to many biochemical pathways suggests that it was one of the earliest established components of cellular metabolism and may have originated abiogenically.

Its importance in physics is the result of its being the solution to the differential equation describing forced resonance.

Its importance in the economy of salvation is discussed periodically in the Philokalia where as direct, personal knowledge of God ( noesis ; see also Noema ) it is distinguished from ordinary epistemological knowledge ( speculative philosophy ).

Its importance was such that it also gave its name to one of the six Rapes or administrative districts of Sussex.

Its strategic importance between China on one side and the Middle East and Europe on the other, temporarily gave all of Eurasia incredible riches.

Its fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean region as the source of olive oil.

Its importance to the fiscal well-being of the central government also denied it economic liberalizations begun in 1978.

Its importance as Brazil's national music transcends region, however ; samba schools, samba musicians and carnival organizations centered around the performance of samba exist in every region of the country and, while regional musics prevail in other regions ( for instance, in Southern Brazil, Center-West Brazil, and all of the Brazilian countryside, Sertanejo, or Brazilian country music, is the most popular style ).

Its importance in today's society rests on its ability to be mass produced using a highly automated process ( semiconductor device fabrication ) that achieves astonishingly low per-transistor costs.

Its importance and continuity in his thinking, Wrathall states, shows that he did not have a ' turn '.

Its basic subject matter and setting — love at the Heian court — are those of the romance, and its cultural assumptions are those of the mid-Heian period, but Murasaki Shikibu's unique genius has made the work for many a powerful statement of human relationships, the impossibility of permanent happiness in love ... and the vital importance, in a world of sorrows, of sensitivity to the feelings of others.

Its importance grew with the extension of the Via Aemilia from Ariminum ( Rimini ) to the Po River ( 187 BC ), which it crossed at Placentia ( Piacenza ) and there forked, one branch going to Mediolanum ( Milan ) and the other to Ticinum, and thence to Laumellum where it divided once more, one branch going to Vercellae-and thence to Eporedia and Augusta Praetoria-and the other to Valentia-and thence to Augusta Taurinorum ( Turin ) or to Pollentia.

Its importance is indicated by its common name, recorded by Statius:

Its strategical importance lay in the position at the approach to the Rhine from southeast.

Its use as a fortress and then a quarry demonstrates how little spiritual importance was attached to it, at a time when sites associated with martyrs were highly venerated.

Its harbour was of considerable importance in imperial times, as the nearest to Dalmatia, and was enlarged by Trajan, who constructed the north quay with his Syrian architect Apollodorus of Damascus.

Its historic importance is evidenced by Northumberland's castles, the two World Heritage Sites of Durham Cathedral and Durham Castle, and Hadrian's Wall.

R. G. Conzen remarked of Ludlow " Its composite medieval town plan and a history of eight and a half centuries with several periods of considerable importance have endowed its Old Town with an historically well-stratified and richly textured landscape.

Its importance was partially in that a mechanical model of the universe, correctly named a planetarium, gained the name Orrery,

Its speed has increased, it operates at increasingly greater depths, its submerged endurance is becoming unlimited, and it will become even more silent.

Its trade deficit has been increasing at a large rate since 1997 ( See chart ) and increased by 49. 8 billion dollars between 2005 and 2006, setting a record high of 817. 3 billion dollars, up from 767. 5 billion dollars the previous year.

Its membership, which had fallen to 32, 000 from a peak of 110, 000 in 1983, increased threefold after Prime Minister Tony Blair made a commitment to nuclear energy.

Its growing rarity increased interest from European museums and private collectors in obtaining skins and eggs of the bird.

Its decline was due mainly to the reduction of real and psychological differences between country and city brought about by the postwar expansion of the Australian urban population and to the increased affluence and technological changes that accompanied it.

By the early 20th century Rock-paper-scissors had spread beyond Asia, especially through increased Japanese contact with the west. Its English-language name is therefore taken from a translation of the names of the three Japanese hand-gestures for rock, paper and scissors: elsewhere in Asia the open-palm gesture represents " cloth " rather than " paper ".

Its germicidal effects increased its value in utensils and as jewelry.

Its talk time increased from 6. 5 hr to 9. 5 hr and the music play time reached 20 hrs.

Its notoriety increased when Sir Everard Home wrote a series of six papers, starting in 1814, describing it for the Royal Society.

Its combat activity was low until 1943 as the army was avoiding suicidal warfare and preserved its very limited resources for later conflicts that sharply increased when the Nazi war machine started to crumble in the wake of the successes of the Red Army in the Eastern Front.

Its output had increased to include school books and modern scholarly texts such as James Clerk Maxwell's A Treatise on Electricity & Magnetism ( 1873 ), which proved fundamental to Einstein's thought.

Its share of the vote increased from 0. 7 % in the 1951 general election to 3. 1 % in 1955 and 5. 2 % in 1959.

Its principal effects are increased production and release of corticosteroids.

Its population has increased greatly over the past century, from 7, 650 in 1900 to 35, 761 in 2005.

Its use there was as a dye-fixer ( mordant ) for wool ( which was one of England's primary industries, the value of which increased significantly if dyed ).

" Its value lies in the increased degree of precision and diversification made possible: Although the id is unconscious by definition, the ego and the super-ego are both partly conscious and partly unconscious.

Its population increased during the Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg lands, when many Protestant artisans from Bielsko ( which did not belong to Poland ) moved across the river.

Its territory included all of the western United States, though as population declined in the area due to the California Gold Rush and increased in nearby Portland the archdiocese was renamed as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon and the headquarters moved there in 1926.

Its only remaining seat in the state ( and country ), Tablelands, was retained with an increased majority by Rosa Lee Long.

Its importance has greatly increased since the coming of the railway, and in 1910 its population was 2, 154.

Its inhabitants gradually increased in numbers from 1850 to 1910, from 11, 444 to 31, 274.

Its power increased after the disintegration of Kievan Rus, and although it was not as strong as the veche in Novgorod, the princes had to take its opinion into consideration ; several times in 12th-13th centuries there was an open conflict between them.

Its population has increased by over 300 percent.

Its population and industrial production significantly increased after World War II.