Sentences with phrase «little role»

First, the outcomes were measured in children who played little role in generating the family's social status, and therefore offered a fairly clean test of competing theories.

Race and gender played little role in shaping responses.

But calculations of this sort play very little role in economic theory and practice.

In the last phase, valuation plays little role for the marginal decision - makers, until the bull market peaks.

Your problem is that you want to force everything into neat little roles and responsibilities and there are just too many variables in organic life for this way of approaching relationships to work.

Critics argue that tax incentives play very little role in a major company's decision to relocate.

And mind you, I hate telling someone that they are wrong, but the reality is that habitat size plays little role in adult size.

Members of the education panel listened intently as Greenspan sketched out his theory of cognitive development, which seemed to hold little role for technology.

This is an un-pretentious little role playing game that doesn't try to be anything more than it is, and as a side - quest to a larger RPG universe, it succeeds.

(Harvey Keitel, Tilda Swinton, Jason Schwartzman, and Bob Balaban also turn up in juicy little roles.)

Fortunate too, that Creevy's increased profile after his debut has allowed him to line up a cast with plenty of talented faces, headlined by McAvoy and Strong with support from the likes of rising star Andrea Riseborough, David Morrissey, Peter Mullan, Johnny Harris and even Ruth Sheen in a memorable little role.

We'll have to wait and see, but either way — Rudd definitely beefed up for this tiny little role.

The game was a modest little role - playing game called Ultima.

Indeed, unless «nobody» in sub-s (3)(b) is construed purposively, then that sub-section will have very little role indeed.

However, Dr Wendy Piatt, director general of the Russell Group which represents the 20 top universities, said: «It may be counter-intuitive, but actually we know from the evidence that finance plays very little role in determining whether a child goes to university.

«The debate between WBRT and SRS has been resolved for the specific type of patient (with 1 - 3 metastases) who enrolled in the current study, and there is little role for WBRT for these patients,» write Carey K. Anders, M.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and colleagues in an accompanying editorial.

Another Guttmacher report, this one published in 2011, found that religious teachings often play little role in women's day - to - day birth control choices.

But since the State AG actually has very little role in criminal prosecutions in New York — how does what you say indicate her qualifications for the job?

«If we could get one person hired at one great company that is going to change the world in some way,» Groesbeck says, «then we could play a little role in doing something great in the world.»

High - grade dollar - dominated bonds have little role in such a portfolio except to offer diversification and stability.

In this, individual shortcomings play little role, not to mention the need for inner effort in overcoming or transforming them.

People within each denomination who support abortion rights and take liberal stances on numerous issues, meanwhile, have formed similar bonds on the Democratic side, with religious denominations themselves playing little role, the analysts said.

Maybe they should introduce a little role playing into their intimacy to help them both see that there is such a thing as healthy lust.

Daddy and mommy thought the kid was in bed and decided to have an intimate night by the fireplace and the Christmas tree, with a little role playing involved.

Hence facts play little role in the evaluation of basic theories.

And I would for the immediate future ban all «relevant» liturgy, most of which all too blatantly verifies Raimer's observation that trinitarian faith has little role in Western pop Christianity — though he was of course too polite to use that last adjective.

Communitarian and ecological concerns play little role.

It is well known that most of the Founding Fathers were Christians, and the rest were Deists, but that Religion had little role in the politics behind the Revolution.

We don't hear much about Stu and how big or little a role he has in this years's dumpster fire.

His decision to sit or kneel during the national anthem played very little role in the 49ers» failure last season.

You might even want to set up a little role play if your baby is old enough and have him or her «put you to bed» in your room instead.

Then try a little role playing (Jay et al 1987).

Nigerians virtually self - fund everything they need shelter, security, water, meanwhile the government play little role in providing these amenities.

Yet it is often seen wrongly as a niche, complex and particular issue which has little role in public debate and in recent years has increasingly, around the world, been conducted on narrow and introspective lines.

Mr. D'Amato, who played little role in the 1986 or 1990 gubernatorial campaigns, said in an interview last week that his active participation in this year's race was motivated purely by a desire to improve state government.

Trustee Vincent Grasso, a registered Democrat, and Fare, a registered Republican, agreed with her that partisan politics plays little role in governing the village.

The finding is unlikely to trouble Grayling, because evidence plays little role in his view of the world.

The mayor has little role in those conflicts.

But apart from state oversight of jail construction and providing funds, Albany has little role in the operations of city jails.

«We know that most of these risk variants on their own play little role in the development of MS.. But mapping the collection of genes associated with MS represents an important advance in efforts to identify the key mechanisms behind its development,» Dr Harbo says.

They found that older, more experienced males did drum more than other troop members, but the drummer's rank and the makeup of the local audience played little role.

Thus far, glaciers have played little role in that initiative.

This type of instability is believed to play little role in conventional tokamaks but can provide a robust source of plasma turbulence in spherical tokamaks.

Aussie scientists say there is little role for sedating antihistamines in treating allergies.

And does that mean that CO2 has little role in the global warming?