It is a failure to notice the significance of what is already happening.

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But there is also a symbolic significance about gas that goes to the heart of what America is.

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" He said he was "appalled" by the attack on Rep. Henry Hyde, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and that what happens in the personal lives of members of Congress is of "minimal significance.

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While I have yet to digest all of the dozen or so essays, I suspect they are only the opening salvo in what is will soon become a robust debate about the significance of uncertainty in climate-change science.

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But the greater significance of what is emerging from the Joint Economic Committee is not its answers but its questions.

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But he fails to grasp the real significance of what Obama is doing and what is actually happening in relations between the two communities.

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The significance of the survey is not so much what it says about the future, but what it says about today.

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It had to be agony for the 30-year-old Swiss, who wanted this gold medal just as much, but Federer is a champion with a sense of history, and he understood the significance of what had happened here, at his expense.

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