Whether the Fed is able to create inflation is not as important to them right now as creating a cheaper dollar.
Perhaps current income is not as important to you as total return.
In and of itself, Mr Cameron's backsliding on his own veto is not as important as the furore surrounding it might suggest.
Gun ownership is not as important in those states, there's less opposition.
Feeling good as a result of making a frugal shopping decision is important, whether the shopping trip resulted in actual savings is not as important.
Applications may also switch to a tablet style UI in landscape, but this is not as important since they will more often be used in portrait.
Perhaps the best example of this transformation is the success of companies like Netflix and Spotify, who clearly show that ownership is not as important as access.
The country is also a regional financial center, and tourism is a growing sector, although it is not as important domestically as it is to many other Caribbean islands.
There is a need for a platform that is user centric for application management, a possibility of your different devices connecting to a web-based platform, so the device is not as important.
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The argument goes that housing represents a very small portion of GDP and therefore its impact is not as important as tax rates, economic stimulus, interest rates, trade, defense spending, consumer behavior, unemployment, etc.
But to me, the vendors and the technology is not as important as the realization, the messianic vision if you will, that the culmination of social business is not a separate environment but the synthesis just described.
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Gates backed off a bit from his frequently stated concern about the size of the U.S. force in Afghanistan, saying that McChrystal has argued that the size of the American force is not as important as to how it interacts with Afghan perception.
Steve Denning has a great article elsewhere on Forbes about Apple and GE bringing manufacturing back to the USA. But in the course of the article Steve also lets slip why, even if it is good news, it is not as important as we want it to be.
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And as far as the Obama administration is concerned, well, reducing those rates is not nearly as important as expanding financial aid for undergraduate, low-income students.
But others' being content with me is not nearly as important as my being content with myself.
Getting the message out that the mafia is not performing as well financially - and is not as powerful - as is sometimes believed is important, the report says.
For Crouch, rarity is not important as maps and atlases that tell the story of a place.
" She hammered the point home: "This is as important - if not more important - than television.
Even ignoring the semi-random 5% rule, significant is not the same as important.
That too is not so important as seeing and understanding the facts.
"Broadband now is as important, if not more important, than video, " says Eric Bruno, vice president of strategy and planning at Verizon's telecom group.
Mr. AMOSS: Who is at fault and whether the fault is a Republican fault or a Democratic fault is not so important as what flows prospectively for the nation from how we respond and whether it's something that's intrinsic to the way we're set up and structured and whether it can be avoided whenever the next disaster of this magnitude happens.
Some say that housing is economically important, but not so important as to be a necessity to economic recovery and continued expansion.
While most planners are numbers oriented and may be biased towards what makes financial sense, sometimes the peace of mind of a decision is just as, if not more important.
So I think there -- what legislative vehicle many of these bipartisan ideas -- whatever -- it moves on, I think, is in some ways not quite as important as demonstrating that we can work together.
"It's not as important to know about every single kind of scam there is, as it is important to be prepared in the event that you do get scammed, " a spokeswoman says.
Which is where the rigorous testing of the places where it is being done as against where it is not being done becomes so important.
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But the fact is that in the most important ways, business is not the same as war.
As important as it is to get into the right investments, it is more important not to get into the wrong ones at the wrong times.
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Thankfully, the majority of online merchants have figured out that traffic to their site is essential to sales, but many have not yet realized that the user experience is equally as important.
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