Its strategic location and excellent infrastructure, with the largest airport in Scandinavia, Kastrup, located 14 minutes by train from the city centre, have made it a regional hub and a popular location for regional headquarters and conventions.

Its strategic location has instigated many wars between rival powers on its territory.

Its formidable defences and strategic location caused it to become known as the ‘ Gibraltar of the North ’.

Its MIPS based supercomputers were withdrawn in 2005 when SGI made the strategic decision to move to Intel's IA-64 architecture.

Its strategic position at the head of the Adriatic made Venetian naval and commercial power almost invulnerable.

Its strategic position has been evident throughout its history: archaeological finds have revealed that the area has always been a focus for peoples entering and leaving Britain.

Its strategic location and port significantly contributed to its maritime strength.

Its location at the northern edge of the Ukrainian steppe would have allowed strategic control of the north-south trade-route.

Its graphic depiction of strategic bombing in the scenes in which Everytown is flattened by air attack and society collapses into barbarism, echo pre-war concerns about the threat of the bomber and the apocalyptic pronouncements of air power prophets.

Its strategic position at the railroad junction led to the construction of several military installations for the war.

Its unique, hilly topography was first noted in 1823 by its founder, Jeff Moore, who decided that the site would serve as an excellent strategic position against attacks by local Native American tribes.

Its strategic location on the high bluffs on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River enabled it to develop into a bustling port.

Its strategic trade advantage lay with control of the two vital packhorse bridges across the Anker and the Tame on the route from London to Chester.

Its location in the Strait of Bonifacio, through which much maritime traffic must pass, has turned the archipelago into a strategic military position.

Its responsibilities include the drafting of opinions for the Foreign Affairs Council, which is one of the configurations of the Council of the European Union, and exercising " political control and strategic direction " of EU crisis-management operations.

Its strategic position meant that prior to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 almost every ship sailing between Europe and Asia stopped off at the colony's capital Cape Town.

Its strategic location on the Meuse exposed Dinant to battle and pillage, not always by avowed enemies: in 1466, Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, uncle of Louis de Bourbon, Prince-Bishop of Liège, and Philip ’ s son Charles the Bold punished an uprising in Dinant during the Liège Wars, by casting 800 burghers into the Meuse and setting fire to the city.

Its strategic position gave rise to a history full of incident and strife but Dunbar has become a quiet dormitory town popular with workers in nearby Edinburgh, who find it an affordable alternative to the capital itself.

Its favorable climate and strategic location helped the city to prosper, quickly becoming the second most important city in New Spain.

Its strategic location and excellent infrastructure, have made it a regional hub and a popular location for international headquarters.

Its strategic value was obvious and it had been discussed for centuries, in particular when King Francis I brought Leonardo da Vinci to France in 1516 and commissioned a survey of a route from the Garonne at Toulouse to the Aude at Carcassonne.

Its primary mission is to receive, verify and retransmit Emergency Action Messages ( EAMs ) to US strategic forces.

Its strategic location, guarding what was, until the 1890s, the farthest downstream crossing of the River Forth, has made it an important fortification from the earliest times.

Its efforts support one of the four main goals of the Smithsonian's new strategic plan, which advances " understanding and sustaining a biodiverse planet.

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 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,