A devout Christian, Bird believed Bible study and prayer were just as important to medical students as their academic studies.

The same importance is given to the motivation of praying together as a family.

So do their consequences.

They are likely to remain so for the foreseeable future.

Equally important, much evidence was simply ignored.

Equally important are immigration s benefits for America s soft power.

An equally significant segment is appalled.

As important is a straightforward decline in literacy.

How the Chinese, Europeans, and other major players respond will be almost as important.

Equally important, the government offered rewards for interim progress, not just ultimate success.

Equally important is a renewed commitment to economic reform in the EU itself.

Equally important were training and the development of national capacity to absorb technology.

Equally important, the money gained through natural resources must be used to promote development.

There are other aspects that are just as important, on which we can have agreement.

Equally important, the panelists reported on the rising importance of liquid natural gas relative to pipeline gas, which has enormous geopolitical implications.

Of equal importance were the rise of China and the decline of investment in Asia following the 1997 1998 financial crisis.

The remaining items in the agreement are equally important for the reconstruction of Gaza and for the stabilization of civilian life there.

It has conducted fair trials and has provided a meaningful appellate process that has led to significant convictions and equally significant acquittals.

That means raising productivity and strengthening competitiveness and, equally important, asserting Europe s place in the world.

Equally important was the fact that all the countries concerned expressed an ambition to move closer to the EU.

Closer integration with the EU is therefore widely seen as important to the success of Russia s own economic transformation.

Proper nutrition requires ingestion and absorption of vitamins, minerals, and food energy in the form of carbohydrates, proteins, and fats.

For example, the regional customs network in the East African countries that have been cooperating and consulting with the Monitoring Group, began taking special measures regarding regional operation on the illegal cross border arms flows early in 2005.

Equally important were Friedman s contributions to influencing public opinion through works that addressed the role of the state in society.

It is that simple, and that important.

By much the same token, Europe s governments should be making a determined new effort to strengthen Europeans sense of a shared history and common values.

But an equally important part of the recovery process was that Britain had left gold with a more or less balanced budget.

Allowing free elections and true political competition is also critically important, but this should follow economic reforms, not precede them.

But recent evidence suggests that large changes, caused by the absorption of a chunk of alien genetic material, may be just as significant.

Equally important, a desirable global scenario is possibly one in which most developing countries run current account deficits.

Equally important was the end of stability with a series of foreign invasions of Italy known as the Italian Wars that would continue for several decades.

Fadil met the same fate.

More must be done, however, to ensure adequate resources for humanitarian assistance without diverting resources from such equally important goals as sustainable development.

Also significant, we are told, is the agreement to make decisions by simple majority, with countries votes to be roughly in proportion to their contributions.

Just as importantly, such a ruling would send a powerful signal that racism and xenophobia have no place in the new Europe.

But if product quality, environmental protection, and economic efficiency are important as well, this state of affairs is little short of nightmarish.

This task will be as important over the next decade as integrating Central and Eastern Europe into the West was in the 1990's.

However, reforms in other fields are equally important and the enlargement of the Security Council should not distract from consultations on other important reform proposals.

Similarly important is a commitment by United Nations funds and programmes to ensure integration of issues of ageing in their programmes and projects, including at country level.

On their part, the Eritrean authorities demonstrated a comparable degree of transparency.

Maybe, if not there and if not then, dominoes are more relevant to foreign and security policy today.

Equally important, no newspapers were closed, stories suppressed, or journalists harassed, as occurred in earlier Kazakh elections.

Equally important is the realization that by working together, we can build a more successful and more stable global economy, for the benefit of all countries.

Only a handful of them really will be.

Equally important, historically much foreign aid was provided not to promote development, but to purchase friendship, especially during the Cold War.