Whereas analytic philosophy examines metaphor within the philosophy of language, continental philosophy assigns much wider significance to metaphor.

The nunnery situated in a mountainous landscape has assigned religious significance to each of the hills surrounding it.

We use a relative weighting scheme, which assigns greater significance to sites with high signal-to-noise and consistent sampling.

R.D. Fulk writes that it is difficult to assign significance to names in Beowulf because some of the characters involved are historical figures.

Health officials elsewhere in the region are equally reluctant to assign much significance to the absence of West Nile so far in many of their towns and counties.

Paper criticizing the standard judicially-oriented conception of the Charter and developing a new "coordinate" model, which assigns greater significance to the decisions of the legislative and executive branches.

Those 16 acres of ruin are "sacred ground" to people who assign theological significance to a devastation wrought by killers guided by religious motivations of their own.

How does one assign statistical significance to expression analysis results?

If her husband wanted to assign special significance to the date of 1 January 2200, it was best to simply accept that.