31.   This shift in focus is necessary, he said, as at the onset of economic problems the banking sector was viewed as being of prime importance.

32.   According to Lesigne, this theory was not of prime importance to investigations.

33.   Low-caste Hindus and Moslems live a simple life with peace of prime importance.

34.   On Thursday in Vilnius, the Lithuanian parliament adopted a national security doctrine which stressed that NATO membership was of prime importance to Lithuanian security.

35.   Qiao also praised the nine-month-old Mongolian government for attaching prime importance to relations with China.

36.   The federal fiscal court ruling was regarded in German government circles as of prime political importance.