And yet the Democrats still don't seem to understand the political salience of confronting Bush on foreign issues.

This had less to do with studied convictions about the issues than with the political salience, actual and perceived, of certain Jewish and evangelical constituencies.

The poll showed the political salience of health care.

This conflictual concept has overwhelming political salience.

It has "lost none of its political, legal and moral salience."

Governments have been particularly concerned with the application of pay norms and incomes policies in the railways because of the industry's size and political salience.

To some extent, the problems of Euratom were those of a sector which had, especially in France, high political salience.

This in turn led to massive variations in waiting times and waiting lists, an issue of high public and political salience.

But campaign reform turns out to have surprising political salience.

But the weakness of any scandal is its political salience.