11.   In Western eyes, Iraq is a major power in an area of great strategic importance.

12.   The island is of strategic importance to France.

13.   From a military point of view, the strategic importance of the Iberian Peninsula was evident simply from looking at a map.

14.   Henley offers both organisations and individual managers the opportunity to carry out interdisciplinary research into issues of strategic importance.

15.   I think obviously I would agree with a lot of what what the districts have said there about the strategic importance of having such a policy.

16.   Barrancabermeja, the only large city in the region and an important juncture for everything from coca leaves to contraband gasoline, has strategic importance for the armed bands.

17.   Both also realize the strategic importance of every pose they or they advisers strike, every image they project, every word they speak, every claim they stake.

18.   All three acquisitions illustrate the strategic importance the major computer companies are placing on the convergence of the Internet and television.

19.   But even so, the strategic importance of the Persian Gulf would be only minimally reduced.

20.   But even if the Caspian region turns out only to have as much oil as pessimists believe, its strategic importance is all but guaranteed.