A worldwide ban on harvesting new ivory, effective since 1989, lends additional significance to the exhibit.

It was coincidence, but my imagination lent it significance.

The symbolism of natural disasters has therefore lent special significance to the floods that struck China this year, affecting some 200 million people.

Dark hair, dark eyes, brandy voice that seemed to lend significance to every detail of existence.

The statements by India's two most powerful political leaders lent new significance to the nuclear tests.

He added that having signed the accord in the holy city lent it greater significance.

This could lend circumstantial significance to the writings of early Christians.

Otherwise, be prepared for your dog to become accidentally conditioned by circumstances that lend new significance to the sound of the dinner bell.

The fact that we have adopted a resolution on Kosovo this very day lends special significance to this point, in my opinion.

The indictment lent potential national significance to the Washington mayoral campaign.