1.   Since the value of a property investment is primarily the receipt of a secure rent, the rent review clause is the most important provision in the whole lease.

2.   Offerors and target companies can expect to receive formal written advice from their advisers on the more important provisions of the Code and the insider dealing legislation.

3.   Another important provision would allow patients to get an external judgment on whether treatments and therapies they seek are covered under their plan.

4.   As Pataki noted, it is also prompted by an important provision in the new death-penalty law.

5.   A proposal to weaken an important provision in the Clean Air Act is making its way to the White House for a final decision by President Bush.

6.   Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Center at the University of California at Davis, said the agreement had important provisions about the distributions of guns.

7.   Important provisions will open Chinese retail banking to foreign firms over several years, and also improve market access for insurance companies, legal and accounting firms.

8.   Important provisions will open Chinese retail banking to foreign firms over several years, and also improve market access for insurance companies, and legal and accounting firms.

9.   In the most important new provision of the greatly improved contract, principals will determine what custodians do in each school.

10.   In the uproar that followed, Clinton agreed to let Helms-Burton become law, but then suspended Title III, its most important provision.