6 sentences with 'significance'

Example sentences and phrases with the word significance and other words derived from it.

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« In all three cases, the significance of Greek scientists is that they sought to create theories to explain natural phenomena based on what they observed in nature itself. »
« Almost immediately after Columbus's return to Spain from his expedition, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain understood the significance of his discovery and actively funded further expeditions and, soon, colonists. »
« That said, of its various aspects, the one that probably casts the longest shadow in terms of its historical significance is the fact that the Atlantic Slave Trade was the first time in history that slavery was specifically racial in character. »
« He spent twenty years carefully observing the heavens from his castle on an island near Copenhagen. The greatest significance of Brahe's work for posterity was that it provided a wealth of data for later astronomers, although his central argument turned out to be inaccurate. »
« Indeed, the significance of the Second Crusade is that the Crusaders began to wage an almost incessant war against the Cordovan Caliphate in Spain - in a sense, Christian Europeans, particularly the inhabitants of the Christian kingdoms of northern Spain, came to the conclusion that there were many infidels much closer to home than Jerusalem and its environs. »
« In retrospect, the historical significance of the Gracchi was less in their reforms and more in the manner of their deaths - for the first time, leading Roman politicians had simply been killed (or had killed themselves rather than been killed) for their politics. It became increasingly clear that real power was moving away from rhetoric and towards military might. »

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