In 1930 another committee was charged with standardizing the seal's design because of all the variations that came into use over the years.

The seal's principal figure is Minerva-a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution and dedicated to the cultivation of every art and science to " advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.

This has been the primary use throughout the seal's history, though isolated uses have been made for correspondence with other members of government.

The seal's skin is used to cover a wooden frame boat ( Umiak ).

Windy Scuttlebut and the curious Flub-a-Dub ( a combination of eight animals: a duck's bill, a cat's whiskers, a spaniel's ears, a giraffe's neck, a dachshund's body, a seal's flippers, a pig's tail and an elephant's memory ).

But perhaps his most important contribution was the importance he gave to the Portuguese navy.

He often engaged in discussion and debate with his students and gave high importance to their studies in history, poetry, and ritual.

At the time, the See of Constantinople was yet of no ecclesiastical prominence but its proximity to the Imperial court, gave rise to its importance.

To a clean-shaven man who had an official manner, Marlow gave the paper entitled ' Suppression of Savage Customs ' - " with the postscriptum torn off "-To another, who claims to be Kurtz's cousin, Marlow gave family letters and memoranda of no importance.

A quickening economic life in Germany increased the number of towns and Imperial cities, and gave them greater importance.

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

But the real importance, to my mind, lay in the effect they had on our own people, and especially the village masses .... Non-cooperation dragged them out of the mire and gave them self-respect and self-reliance .... They acted courageously and did not submit so easily to unjust oppression ; their outlook widened and they began to think a little in terms of India as a whole .... It was a remarkable transformation and the Congress, under Gandhi's leadership, must have the credit for it.

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

This was done after Sri Teen Maharaja Chandra Shumsher realised the British gave more weight and importance to the " Jung Bahadur " name.

Pythagoraean mystics gave great importance to the odd and the even.

Nevertheless, Henry sponsored the publication of Edmund's early poetry, which gave the younger man entrée to new friends of literary importance, and the two men " came out of the years of conflict with their relationship wary but intact.

In the 20th century, the ' New French School ' of paleographers, especially Jean Mallon, gave a new direction to the study of scripts by stressing the importance of ductus ( the shape and order of the strokes used to compose letters ) in studying the historical development of scripts.

In 1951 she gave a lecture about treatment of homosexuality which was criticised by Edmund Bergler, who emphasised the oral fears of patients and minimized the importance of the phallic castration fears she had discussed.

Together with the Virginia dynasty of presidents, this gave the Commonwealth national importance.

Harding also sensed the importance of oil in terms of national security and prosperity, signing an executive order that gave the U. S. a giant oil reserve in Alaska.

He restored all its faculties, gave larger salaries to the professors, and summoned distinguished teachers from afar ; and, although it never attained to the importance of Padua or Bologna, it nevertheless possessed in 1514 a faculty ( with a good reputation ) of eighty-eight professors.

The high cost of his victories against the Romans gave Epirus a new, but brief, importance, as well as a lasting contribution to the Greek language with the concept of a " Pyrrhic victory ".

This law was a consequence of Seerow's Kindness, in which an Andalite named Prince Seerow gave the Yeerks advanced technology, leading directly to their sudden rise in galactic importance.

Globalization during the 20th century gave rise to the importance of NGOs.

It was the attempts of the Directory to deal with the economic crisis that gave Babeuf his historical importance.

The Moon not only provides light at night, allowing the time to still be measured without the sun, but its phases and prominence gave it a significant importance in early astrology / astronomy.

Regardless of the importance they gave to the Temple, and despite their support of Bar Koseba ’ s revolt, the Pharisees ’ vision of Jewish law as a means by which ordinary people could engage with the sacred in their daily lives provided them with a position from which to respond to all four challenges in a way meaningful to the vast majority of Jews.

The image of national unity and achievement is what initially gave the battle importance for Canada.

This gave women a role of primary and indisputable importance within their social groups.

Popularity of EVM has grown significantly in recent years beyond government contracting, in which sector its importance continues to rise ( e. g., recent new DFAR rules ), in part because EVM can also surface in and help substantiate contract disputes.

It is this ethos that has given rise to links with young people, such as the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and PGL, and large numbers of outdoor education centres being established, as the stress on the importance of a balanced and widespread education continues to grow.

Central to the rise of the gens de couleur planter class was the growing importance of coffee, which thrived on the marginal hillside plots to which they were often relegated.

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.

This included the rise of the European Union, an issue which was already a source of friction within the Conservative Party owing to its importance in the decline and fall of Margaret Thatcher.

The fundamental importance, in Roman Catholic theology, of the sacrament of water baptism gives rise to the argument that, because original sin excludes from the beatific vision enjoyed by the souls in heaven, those who have not been freed from it either by the sacrament or by baptism of desire or baptism of blood are not eligible for entry into heaven.

Because of its importance to the rise of National Socialism, Munich was referred to as the Hauptstadt der Bewegung (" Capital of the Movement ").

With the rise of several blitz heavy defensive schemes and increasingly faster defensive players, the importance of a mobile quarterback has been redefined.

The importance of Brest in medieval times was great enough to give rise to the saying, " He is not the Duke of Brittany who is not the Lord of Brest ".

With the later rise to power of the Babylonians in the 18th century BCE, the king, Hammurabi, declared Marduk, a deity who before then had not been of significant importance, to a position of supremacy alongside Anu and Enlil.

With the emergence of Jewish denominations and the modern rise in Jewish intermarriage in the 20th century, questions about the law of matrilineal descent have assumed greater importance to the Jewish community at large.

From the 1st century BC through the modern era, the town had a significant military importance because the Alps rise abruptly to its immediate south, presenting a significant natural barrier.

After the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976 and the rise of Deng Xiaoping in 1978, the importance of the book waned considerably, and the glorification of Mao's quotations was considered to be left deviationism and a cult of personality.

The city center was rendered a car-free zone, the importance of Enschede as a Euregional Centre was stimulated and Enschede managed to rise from the ashes ( for once not literally ).

Tijuana's importance and rise to a global city has led to its recognition among countries worldwide.

Some economists have attributed the rise of importance of the Canadian dollar to the long term effects of the Nixon Shock that effectively ended the Bretton Woods system of global finance.

With the rise of a much larger Imperial bureaucracy, this task of the publicans, as well as their overall importance, declined precipitously.

The rise of importance for the naginata can be seen as being mirrored by the European pike, another long pole weapon employed against cavalry.

AFI has also been granted responsibility for influencing the rise of the visual element of rock bands in the 2000s ; in a December 2006 article, Revolver Magazine wrote that " AFI have increased the importance of a band's visual identity and the flair for the theatrical ," adding that " when a group like Panic!

Islamic law placed importance on formulating standards of argument, which gave rise to a novel approach to logic in Kalam, but this approach was later displaced by ideas from Greek philosophy and Hellenistic philosophy with the rise of the Mu ' tazili philosophers, who highly valued Aristotle's Organon.

Some economists have attributed the rise of importance of the Canadian dollar to the long term effects of the Nixon Shock that effectively ended the Bretton Woods system of global finance.