During the Middle Ages, Aachen remained a city of regional importance, due to its proximity to Flanders, achieving a modest position in the trade in woollen cloths, favoured by imperial privilege.

Madrid became the centre of political power whilst the colonisation of the Americas reduced the financial importance ( at least in relative terms ) of Mediterranean trade.

As these events were developing, the growing illegal drug trade and its consequences were also increasingly becoming a matter of widespread importance to all participants in the Colombian conflict.

Lacking a detailed history, the kingdom's fall has been attributed to a persistent drought, overgrazing, deforestation, plague, a shift in trade routes that reduced the importance of the Red Sea — or a combination of these factors.

For this reason most countries eased or eliminated their trade tariffs in preparation to join the EEC, but experienced declining revenue which reduced the importance of EFTA.

Some art historians believe that fresco artists from Crete may have been sent to various locations as part of a trade exchange, a possibility which raises to the fore the importance of this art form within the society of the times.

This fact increased again the importance of Gibraltar, yet in Marinid hands, in the strait trade.

The beginning of industrialization in Germany led to trade in iron and silver from the northern Harz mountains, which increased the city's importance.

While international trade has been present throughout much of history ( see Silk Road, Amber Road ), its economic, social, and political importance has been on the rise in recent centuries.

Public international law has increased in use and importance vastly over the twentieth century, due to the increase in global trade, environmental deterioration on a worldwide scale, awareness of human rights violations, rapid and vast increases in international transportation and a boom in global communications.

Toward the end of the seventeenth century, London's growing importance as a centre for trade increased demand for marine insurance.

However, the decreasing importance of the soda ash trade to ICI in favour of newer products such as paints and plastics, meant that in 1984 the Wallerscote site was closed, and thereafter mostly demolished.

The city managed to remain neutral in the Thirty Years ' War, but with the devastation caused by the decades-long war and the new transatlantic orientation of European trade, the Hanseatic League and thus Lübeck lost importance.

The Leipzig Trade Fair, started in the Middle Ages, became an event of international importance and is the oldest remaining trade fair in the world.

In the mid-20th century, the city's trade fair assumed renewed importance as a point of contact with the Comecon Eastern Europe economic bloc, of which East Germany was a member.

On occasion, opposing trade unions clashed on this day, so in 1972, Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley promoted Labour Day as a showcase for the importance of labour to the development of Jamaica, and a day of voluntary community participation to beneficial projects.

The community soon increased in importance with the monastery ’ s founding and profited from the lively goods trade on the Via Publica.

Since the early Middle Ages, the trade in furs was of great economic importance for northern and eastern European nations with large native populations of fur-bearing mustelids, and was a major economic impetus behind Russian expansion into Siberia and French and English expansion in North America.

Mercantilism is the economic doctrine that government control of foreign trade is of paramount importance for ensuring the prosperity and military security of the state.

The Americans were pushing the importance of free trade and European unity to form a bulwark against communism.

The location of oases has been of critical importance for trade and transportation routes in desert areas.

Although, at the time it was seen as confirming Menzies ' status as a world statesman, it was of vital importance to Australia's shipping trade with Britain.

Due to a still-tangible faith in the viability of the state socialist system, most socialist groups of that period emphasised the importance of political action through party organisations as a means of bringing about socialism ; in syndicalism, trade unions are thus seen as simply a stepping stone to common ownership.

This precursor to the effects of the Suez Canal ( 1869 ), coupled with the advent of steam shipping that was not reliant on trade winds led to a gradual reduction in the number of ships calling at St Helena and to a decline in its strategic importance to Britain and economic fortunes.

Significantly, Solomon Islanders experience as labourers with the Allies led some to a new appreciation of the importance of economic organisation and trade as the basis for material advancement.

Of greater importance, however, is the content of those programs, which have had and are having enormous consequences for the American people.

A third, one of at least equal and perhaps even greater importance, is now being traversed: American immersion and involvement in world affairs.

It is of the utmost importance to the people of America and of the world how their governing President `` ends up '' during the four years of his term.

The discussion is therefore limited to a suggested procedure for realizing at least some of the potential importance of this volume for future policy.

The scene is etched in sharp detail, the military problems brilliantly explained, and the excitement and importance of the battle made evident.

The intuition about mankind conveyed in these opening pages is of crucial importance for understanding the remainder of the text ; ;

This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

So don't see yourself as a heroine or fancy this little adventure is an event of major importance ''.

In view of the increasing shortage of usable surface and ground water in many parts of the Nation and the importance of finding new sources of supply to meet its present and future water needs, it is the policy of the Congress to provide for the development of practicable low-cost means for the large-scale production of water of a quality suitable for municipal, industrial, agricultural, and other beneficial consumptive uses from saline water, and for studies and research related thereto.

The Medical Illustration Service is responsible for the collection, publication, exhibition, and file of medical illustration material of medico-military importance to the Armed Forces.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

Whether considered alone or in relation to other editions, COLH 40 is a document of prime importance.

Feed pressure is also of major importance.

The backbend is of extreme importance to any form of free gymnastics, and, as with all acrobatics, the sooner begun the better the results.

They come prepared for family fun because Americans in ever-growing numbers are learning that here is the way to a fine economical vacation that becomes a family experience of lasting importance.

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

The importance of knowing in what chemical forms the hormone may exist is accentuated by the recent observation that there exists an abnormally long-acting TSH in blood drawn from many thyrotoxic patients ( Adams, 1958 ).

Of particular importance is the study of the actions of drugs in this respect.

Religion at its best is out in front, ever beckoning and leading on, and, as Lippman put it, `` mobilizing all man's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance ''.

Context is of extreme importance.

Because of its importance, and because the lack of price competition is well recognized, the industry is under considerable public pressure not to raise its price any more than could be justified by cost increases.

This is a problem, but we are not divided over its importance or by its existence.

The answer the authors give to it, therefore, is of supreme importance.

Technique pure and simple, rendition, is not of major importance, but it is interesting that Parker, following Lester Young, was one of the leaders of the so-called saxophone revolution.