In turn, that means that the Middle East will become relatively more important to Asia as its dominant energy source.
And it remained a relatively small but important part of our portfolio for about four or five years.
"But the main story is the relatively mundane but terribly important activity in electronic procurement and supply-chain optimization" made possible by the Net.
"Lasting and justified satisfaction with life as a whole" is produced by a relatively small set of important achievements that we can rightly attribute to our own actions.
Unlike networks such as CBS and Fox, which control important but relatively small slices of the U.S. media landscape, Televisa controls 70% of the Mexican broadcast TV sector.
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Mr Cameron said a press law had been avoided - although he conceded the clauses were "two very important but relatively small legislative changes" that needed to be made.
Because growth forecasts become relatively so much more important to stock investors during bubbles, companies have their greatest incentive to spin news positively and challenge bad news during periods of stock market euphoria.
First, and most important, a relatively small share of the bill was actually devoted to infrastructure.
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Of course, longer patents would mean that important drugs would remain relatively expensive for a longer time.
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To his credit, it was a relatively modest affair and, more important, it was built with his own money.
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If you're healthy and trying to stay that way, the important tests are few and relatively low tech.
Yet everything is jumbled in the recollection, because the most proximate memory may be the least important, the portentous detail relatively trivial.
The choice of a new commission president is all-important, because there is relatively little that national governments can do to check their man once he is in place.
Precision in landing was important because NASA chose a relatively tight area for Curiosity's arrival: The Gale Crater, which contains an 18, 000-foot high mountain about 7.5 miles south of the landing site.
Similarly, Paralympic gold medallist Baroness Grey-Thomspon believed the threat to the games was "relatively minor", but stressed it was important to address the issue nonetheless.
Even more important is to understand that a relatively small fraction of the wealth created by entrepreneurial activity is actually captured by the entrepreneurs themselves.
The country has already borrowed 2.5bn euros from Russia, whose business people are important customers of Cyprus's relatively large offshore financial sector which offers low tax rates.
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But a couple of relatively new products aim to digitally collect your important data in all these categories in one easy-to-access place: either on your computer or on the Web.
Reducing labour costs and boosting productivity is all the more important since Portugal is exposed to relatively low-tech areas of activity such as textiles that are vulnerable to competition from developing countries.
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Palin's decision to hold her resignation press conference on a federal holiday left people scratching their heads about why she would make such an important statement on a day when relatively few people are following the news.
This was deemed important because in the Gulf War the relatively featureless landscape caused problems in the Tercom terrain-following guidance.
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Reconciliation of massive high-tech investment and relatively slow productivity growth in service industries remains an important task for proponents of the new-economy position.
For startups, this is important because the barriers to entry are relatively low, while new or innovative ideas can quickly be replicated by agile rivals.
While all of the above represent relatively low cost ways into China, gaining an important share of the market will require an investment of capital and manufacturing in-country.
Although the overall dividend rate and yield remained relatively high throughout this period, it is also important to recognize that Vornado Realty Trust did cut their dividend several times as Funds From Operations modestly weakened.
Thus, they stand to be lucrative for issuers and relatively inexpensive for consumers, a fact made particularly important given that prepaid cards can provide the exact same services to consumers as regular checking accounts, with the lone exception of physical check writing capabilities.
He also believes that the State Department budget is very important and that the money, the relatively small amount of money that is utilized through the State Department to advance American interests abroad, is money very well spent, and that we need to be mindful of that as we make our choices going forward.
For instance, matching users with relatively equal-sized friend lists seems to be an important factor.
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It has been very important in modernising the Polish economy, but remains relatively low.
For all the partisan noise about these automatic spending cuts, it is important to keep in mind that they are both relatively small and very stupid.
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