Sentences with phrase «largely responsible»

For those that don't know, he's the man who would later become the Vice President of Microsoft's games division and was largely responsible for the success of the Xbox consoles!

Many of them have been playing Smash Brothers games for a decade, so they are largely responsible for keeping people interested and introducing new people to the game years after its release.

These resorts are largely responsible for bringing tourists to Jamaica in the first place, and it's the sandy beaches that hold much of the appeal.

The small harbor in Antibes is especially attractive, not to mention largely responsible for turning the town into a hot tourist destination.

Geographically, the Alps cover almost two thirds of Switzerland's total area and are largely responsible both for Switzerland's climate and for its long - established popularity as a tourist destination.

The soft sediment rock which allowed the lakes to be carved out is also largely responsible for their alchemic colour - changes.

But while many credit a surge of consumer demand for the growth in the category, some point out that manufacturers should, in fact, take much of the credit for themselves — for the industry itself is largely responsible for the public's increased awareness of natural alternatives.

2000 A retrospective study of five serious and apparently unforeseen and random dog attacks on 3 adults and 2 children (Polsky, R. 2000) concluded that the use of electric boundary fences by the owners of these dogs was largely responsible for the attacks.

Line - breeding, the tool largely responsible for creating the tremendous variety of dog breeds and for setting type, is also responsible for increasing the expression of recessive diseases and aggregating the necessary deleterious genes to produce polygenic disorders.

Karen Pryor was largely responsible for introducing clicker training to the dog world in the 1990s, and remains one of the most prominent public voices in the field.

Much of this research has now been renounced and updated by Dr. David Mech, the expert and senior scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who was largely responsible for the original scientific study.

Dog food, in particular kibble is made of ingredients that have very little nutritional value and actually kibble is largely responsible for most of the degenerative diseases seen in dogs today.

Scientific analysis of Milk Thistle shows that it contains a flavonoid complex called silymarin, which is largely responsible for the medical benefits of this herb.

We believe that this protocol is largely responsible for the fact that we have never had a case of parvovirus or other lethal disease in any of our pups.

The Old English Bulldog, the Bullenbeisser (a now - extinct breed of Bulldog) are largely responsible for the breed as we know it today.

On top of that, I found evidence that the improper diet is largely responsible for this rise in canine cancer and that even I had been feeding what could be considered a poor diet.

As we're about to see, the inclusion of foreign stocks has been largely responsible for most of the variance in returns between JtB and the U.S. stock market in recent years.

For starters, there's no easy way to bail out homeowners without bailing out the lenders and investors who were largely responsible for the subprime mess.

These infusions were largely responsible for reducing the immediate threat to the U.S. financial system in late 2008.

This book was one of the first I ever read on the subject of real estate investing, and is largely responsible for my love of small multifamily properties.

Investment Director - Shareholder Value Management Gianluca A. Ferrari is an Investment Director at Shareholder Value Management AG («SVM»), an employee owned investment company based in Frankfurt, Germany, where he is largely responsible for the company's active engagements.

This is the discretionary trading skill that is largely responsible for separating the winners from the losers.

Remember the manufacturing recession and oil price decimation that was largely responsible for keeping the S&P 500 from going anywhere for 22 months (12/2014 -10 / 2016)?

A growing global population is largely responsible for greater food demand but alternative fuels like ethanol also play role in increasing demand.

The ATB rule change is largely responsible for the summer declines in education behemoths like DeVry (DV), Apollo Group (APOL), Bridgepoint Education (BPI), and Strayer Education (STRA).

Putting all these stats together, he concludes that Kindle fires dropped off a cliff in Q1, and that's largely responsible for Amazon's gross margin improvement.

Readers did not like this, and agency pricing was largely responsible for bringing the practice to an end.

Even though indie authors are largely responsible for the massive growth and success of the conference?

In our opinion, Smith Publicity was largely responsible for... our sold - out edition; not an easy task with a specialized and expensive book... Our publishing company had worked without external publicists in the past, but this new book created a unique challenge, as a very high - quality and expensive Limited Edition.

I think many authors are realistic about this and recognize that they are largely responsible for marketing their own book — whether they like it or not.

Their modes of thinking, considered in classical times to be the pinnacle of human achievement, are largely responsible for the shape that the Christian religion took.

While ASG's study reveals that these advanced powertrains are largely responsible for leading significant fleet fuel economy gains in 2018, there is one notable model with a conventional powertrain that is a standout in the API.

Quadrasteer is largely responsible for adding more than 400 pounds to the Sierra Denali.

An active noise - canceling system, which proved effective in many driving instances, seems largely responsible for these sounds of silence.

Forced induction is largely responsible for the substantial increase in peak torque (295 lb ft versus just 143 lb ft in this Type R's predecessor), although it doesn't arrive with anything like the smooth swell of a comparable Ford or Volkswagen unit.

Takeshi Uchiyamada, the father of the Toyota Prius, has made a bold proclamation for the segment he was largely responsible for founding.

Awakening a long underserved market niche, the Caravan became a runaway best seller, and is largely responsible for the existence of every minivan you see on the road today.

He was largely responsible for the exterior design of both the Chiron and Vision Gran Turismo concept.

The BRD performs government - wide budget coordination and is largely responsible for the technical aspects relating to the release of the President's budget each February.

But it's the new double - wishbone front axle and 5 - link rear axle are largely responsible for controlling lateral roll and shear forces to enhance agility and stability, as does the addition of four - wheel steering.

The air ducts required to cool the fuel cell are largely responsible, and the rest comes from the impulse to be futuristic unaccompanied by the design talent to carry it off.

Understand, although without digging, these loosley coupled systems will remain largely responsible for the downward spiral of American education.

Much of the money has been going to support public education and it is largely responsible for the flush budgets of the last few years that have provided billions in extra dollars for education.

I've rebutted the claims that special ed is largely responsible for rising per pupil spending in chapters 1 and 2 of the book Education Myths as well as in this Education Next article and in this paper that was published in the Peabody Journal of Education.

It is the teachers unions - the NEA and the AFT - that are largely responsible for a system that is failing far too many of our children, especially those trapped in the inner cities...

The accountability system, policy experts argue, is largely responsible for the law's most negative consequence: Allowing states to «dummy down» their academic standards so that more students could be classified as proficient each year.

As one of the founding members of the Association of Black Psychologists, the group largely responsible for minimizing the use of IQ tests in schools, I continue to find the testing debate fascinating, even though it has taken several politically irresponsible turns of late.

Working in something called a sensitive compartmented information facility, Haddad is largely responsible for screening and evaluating potential intelligence agents to determine their suitability for high - stress positions, such as operating in a war zone, and to delegate who can be trusted with topsecret clearance.

Second, Rick thinks there is an inconsistency in my suspicion that test - prep and manipulation are largely responsible for test score improvements by Milwaukee choice schools after they were required to take high - stakes tests, while I interpret research from Florida as showing schools made exceptional test score gains when faced with the prospect of having vouchers offered to their students if scores did not improve.

This phenomenon, for which human activity is largely responsible, is the main factor in climate change.