21.   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.

22.   Because scientists do not have a full understanding of how HIV infects cells, clarifying the mechanism by which SLPI blocks infection could have broader importance.

23.   A gasoline price hike has symbolic importance for the government.

24.   Both thus have an importance to the financial health of their franchises that transcends their gaudy salaries.

25.   Census tallies figure not only in political apportionment but also in federal funding formulas and also have commercial importance.

26.   Each, of course, has great importance on its own.

27.   Good ideas, really good ones, have importance that transcends their merit.

28.   Gordon says the Dover races also have extra importance because his primary sponsor, DuPont, has its headquarters in nearby Wilmington, Del. . . .

29.   He changed his official title soon thereafter to president and CEO, a move that has symbolic importance to the academically oriented old guard.

30.   Heber said he doubted that the factor would have great importance by itself.