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 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 front was windowless, but irregularities in the masonry might be an indication that windows, now blinded, had once looked out upon the street.

The husband points the steps out with his flashlight: `` Its white stare filling her pale eyes To the blind brim with appetite, Bleaching her hands that grazed my thighs And sent us from the table in surprise To let the dishes soak all night, '' ( Mary Jane asked herself if Meredith was blushing at this line, or was it the fire??

Its blade was dazzling in the intense sunlight.

Its ribs showed, it was a yellow nondescript color, it suffered from a variety of sores, hair had scabbed off its body in patches.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

Its refrain was: `` let us return to the individualistic democracy of our forefathers for our salvation ''.

Its first apparition was a long, gloomy column of refugees riding in farm wagons, or pushing prams.

Its second press release was on January 15, 1958, and it recommended that the secret papers be destroyed.

Its climactic role was to pursue and demoralize a defeated enemy but this chance never came in the Atlanta campaign.

Its groin was bloody.

Its purpose was to find ways of offsetting the United States' declining balance of trade for 1958 and 1959.

During the last week of march 1961, Columbus, Ohio was the site of the Fourth Symposium on Temperature, Its Measurement And Control In Science And Industry.

Its ground for this recommendation was that, while petitioner claimed before the local board August 17, 1956 ( as evidenced by its memorandum in his file of that date ), that he was devoting 100 hours per month to actual preaching, the headquarters of the Jehovah's Witnesses reported that he was no longer doing so and, on the contrary, had relinquished both his Pioneer and Bible Student Servant positions.

Its building was first proposed in 1791, when a group of citizens, mostly Newburyport men, petitioned the General Court for an act of incorporation.

Its temperature was denoted by Af.

Its value was Af from the above data.

Its enforcement was enjoined by a federal trial court.

Its positive features outweighed the fact that the pool was an adjunct of a wouldbe monopoly.

Its power unit, however, was derived from the reactor of the more modern American nuclear submarine Skipjack.

Its form was a heavy figure in a fluttering soutane.

Its citizens spoke all of the world's surviving tongues, plus a new one called Lingo, a pidgin whose vocabulary was derived from the other six and whose syntax was so simple it could be contained on half a sheet of paper.