What is the significance?

Blogs still remain a valuable place but are losing the ground to the newcomers.

While the international community has given the issue significant attention, it is not enough.

Transferring more areas of responsibility, such as foreign aid and development policies, to EU institutions helps the Union to adapt to new international realities by underpinning its growing importance as Europe s decision making center.

The participation of international financial institutions is vital.

The main challenge is not infrastructure and urban facilities, however important they are.

This is where the Marshall Plan of American support became crucial.

The importance of these statements cannot be overestimated.

Elections do occur in the Arab world, and they vary in frequency and significance.

Such a capacity will always be necessary, and few doubt its importance.

That is why right to know laws are so important.

As important as they are, international covenants do not represent an end in itself.

National development strategies were also crucial.

They need a way to remain relevant this could be it.

Ethics management is important to the promotion of good business practices, transparency and risk reduction.

Tourism planning needs to reflect recent moves towards more integrated and consultative spatial and community planning, including processes like integrated coastal zone management.

Reductions in nuclear weapons, though significant, fell short of the New Agenda's expectations.

NEW YORK Now that it is clear that the United States is in recession, the debate has moved on to whether it will be short and shallow or long and deep a question that is as important for the rest of the world as it is for the US.

The round table discussions on young people called it making commitments that matter .

It requires more schools and fewer guns more universities and fewer aircraft carriers.

These polls, though vitally important, are not the only challenges that Sudan and its people face.

Yet at every turn, their contribution is downplayed and their ambitions are obstructed. Women find themselves cut off from training and support.

Otherwise, the global development agenda could lose its relevance, and thus its grip on stakeholders.

Official development assistance and multilateral bank lending, though valuable, remain insufficient.

These meetings have proven a rich breeding ground for ideas and collaborations across borders.

Web sites are selected based on their cultural significance and research value.

Anyway, the first step has been taken and its importance cannot be overestimated.

And they are as relevant to state led as they are to more market driven economies.

A state becomes a world power when its strategic significance and potential give it global reach.

It remains crucial in a world populated by threatening states and terrorist organizations.

Sunni groups are supposedly trying to prove that they still matter, that they have been neither defeated nor deterred by US troops.

Its strategic relevance, even in the transatlantic partnership, is destined to weaken further.

Statistics on individual social media sites are also important when analyzing their role in a protest movement.

Those countries should be given a role in the work of the Council reflecting their importance and contributions to the United Nations.

Such efforts are all the more significant in the context of the international community's endeavours to attain the Millennium Development Goals.

Most of our local authorities, when they sit down to plan for the next five, 10, 15, 20 years of a community, still start by assuming that there will be more energy, more cars, more housing, more jobs, more growth, and so on.

There is more in Hyman Minsky, and perhaps more still in Charles Kindleberger.

Given the situation faced by millions of indigenous people around the world, all three mandates continue to be highly relevant.

On the contrary, its importance stems from the fact that China holds the key to global adjustment.

Israeli settlers and their supporters then gather even more energy to expand onto more Palestinian land, build more exclusively Jewish settlements, and destroy more Arab homes before the so called freeze comes into effect.

More bombings.

We must enhance our capacity and mobilize more and more domestic resources.

Whatever the limits or contradictions of shared values, it would be naive to dismiss their importance.

Moreover, relations with the US, while important, are no longer paramount.

As they grow more significant (the result of greater global connectedness), they inevitably become harder to manage.