The ecological damage that the world is facing is no less important.

Yet, there is another equally important dimension.

In general, the rate of physical violence during pregnancy decreases as household income increases.

But just as important as making decisions is explaining them well.

If increased agricultural productivity is necessary, so, too, is improved water management.

Its effect is almost as important as that of smoking.

The second, older and equally important, is liberty that is, freedom.

But what did not happen might be as important as what did.

What the CIO should not do is almost as important.

But there is another reason, no less important, that concerns morals and ideology.

After all, guilt is as significant as courage in any human enterprise.

Ideas are an equally important aspect of social globalization.

The reduction of the trade barriers that confront Africa is at least as important.

No less important in that connection is the creation of nuclear weapon free zones.

The effect of a decline in the dollar over the coming decade could be equally important.

It is no less important that compliance with those legal instruments should be fully assured.

Comparative data show that indigenous girls attend school less often than boys do.

Resolving socio economic issues is no less important for stability in the region.

At least as important, however, will be the manner in which cases are presented to the courts.

Other ministries play a no less important role, as do private stakeholders.

Climate change is as much a matter of security as it is an economic and human concern.

Resolving these issues is as important as resolving individual countries economic problems.

Second, and equally important, the extremist vote is weakening.

Also important is the harm done to economies, as countries are incurring losses of billions of dollars.

Women's access to land and credit was equally important to their economic empowerment.

Of equal significance is the need for these efforts to be transparent and verifiable.

The proportion of women Provincial Council members even declined slightly, to 29.4 , and is still way below the target figure of 40 by 2004.

Indeed, the impact of intelligence on mortality rivals well known risk factors for illness and death, such as high blood pressure, being overweight, high blood glucose, and high cholesterol. Its effect is almost as important as that of smoking.

Equally important is research into the most effective measures to combat cross border animal and plant diseases.

Equally important, it would change Europe s political dynamics from negative to positive.

By any moral standard, that goal is at least as important as anything on America s agenda.

It is for this reason that securing the independence of Ukraine is so important, as is assuring Turkey s European orientation.

12.10 Vanuatu's crude birth rate per 1,000 is 33, a decline from 37 in 1989.

The rate of illiteracy was under 10 per cent for women, and about 5 per cent for men.

The decrease in the rate of injury can be approximated by the Q10 rule, which states that the rate of biochemical reactions decreases by a factor of two for every 10 C reduction in temperature.

Thus, Ireland might yet play as significant a part as Germany in determining the future of any amendments to the EU constitutional order, with each country s top court playing as important a role as politicians in shaping Europe s future.

But, equally important, the dispute underscores their different objectives.

Equally important, however, is the reduction of economic imbalances and European policy coordination to enable growth.

It is equally important that citizens should consider it their duty to commit themselves to the principles of liberal democracy.

Financial assistance is of course vital, but the political commitment of the international community is just as important.

To many Middle East states, what China wants is now just as important as US interests.

I could hardly fail to urge the no less fundamental expansion of the Security Council.

Western Europe's productivity per hour worked, for example, is now only 10 or so below America's.

Beyond semantics lies the more consequential, but equally ambiguous, question of the international community s role and responsibility.

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