Sentences with phrase «more substantial role»

This proposal would codify a more substantial role for non-lawyers by establishing a category of service providers called «Court Advocates» in Housing Court and in consumer credit cases to assist low - income litigants.

The paper identifies several major themes among the alternative proposals: Kyoto is «too little, too fast»; developing countries should play a more substantial role and receive incentives to participate; implementation should focus on market - based approaches, especially those with price mechanisms; and participation and compliance incentives are inadequately addressed by most proposals.

A. Education will play a much more substantial role in the lives of children but there will be less distinction between schooling and other forms of learning.

Gillian Jacobs turns up again here, with a much more substantial role, playing a gifted improviser who's starting to realize that she may actually love this form of comedy for its own sake, rather than as a springboard to something better.

After a minor role in last fall's Reese Witherspoon comedy, Home Again, Bergen carries a more substantial role in the film.

The film is also expected to introduce Janet van Dyne in a more substantial role.

Fans of the original American Pie trilogy may be somewhat pleased that Eugene Levy (For Your Consideration, Over the Hedge) takes a more substantial role here playing the same dopey character that delivered big laughs in the first film.

Oddly enough it's the female characters who suffer most, with Chloe Sevigny «s inherent oddness the only thing rescuing the character of Owen and James» widowed mother from cipherdom, while the more substantial role of Diana is given not just one but several credulity - straining psychological somersaults to pull off.

Actor / writer / producer Steve Agee was a driving force in the creation of The Bogus Witch Project before his brief appearance in Sarah Silverman: Jesus Is Magic led to a more substantial role in the comedienne's surprise Comedy Central hit The Sarah Silverman Program.

Dzeko has proven he is a Premier League quality striker, but for the competition at Eastlands, he would have played a much more substantial role last season.

According to our sources, the Citizens were so impressed with Kelechi Iheanacho's masterful showing in the FA Cup on Saturday — the Nigerian wonderkid scored a hat - trick as the Sky Blues devastated Aston Villa 4 - 0 — that they are looking to give the youngster a more substantial role in the first team during the title run in.

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Second, when someone does something well, reward them with public recognition, whether it's a company - wide email, a shout - out in a meeting, a party, or something more substantial like an enhanced job title (for instance, «Senior» or «Lead» in front of their current role).

But the «thing» ought to be regarded as no more «real» or «substantial» than, for example, the role of the trombone.»

Bringing more than 25 years of hotel management and repositioning experience to his new role, Tufano acknowledges the substantial work and effort of individuals at Kokua with the following advancements:

Fatherhood Institute chair Will McDonald said: «It's clear that today's fathers want to play a substantial role in caring for their young children — and mothers want more sharing too.

I remember also reflecting at the time that her speech was a more substantial political act than any from David Cameron a self - proclaimed moderniser who did not challenge his party's orthodox views on the role of the state and the provision of public services.

We therefore need to acknowledge that fertility should be more efficient, not necessarily higher, and that males can have a substantial role in influencing the production of efficient broods.

The percentage of doctorate holders in nonacademic S&E occupations who are underrepresented minorities increased from 4.4 percent in 1990 to 6.1 in 2005, a substantial increase if it were not over a very small base.18 Myers and Turner concluded that market forces such as wages play a more prominent role in affecting faculty representation in the short run than pipeline factors designed to increase the supply of minority faculty.19

It's heartening, too, that after several entries that focus almost entirely on the kids, Emma Thompson, Maggie Smith, David Thewlis, Jim Broadbent, and, in particular, Rickman return with substantial roles and significantly more screen time.

Producer / creator Barry Kemp felt that the actor would be the wrong choice for the part (and eventually handed it to Tom Poston instead), but also felt so impressed by Van Dyke's talents that he both cast the actor in a guest - starring role on a season - one episode of that series (he played a flustered travel agent named Roy Herzog), and promised Van Dyke a more substantial recurring assignment on a sitcom.

Although his role was essentially limited to a brief maritime seduction of the illustrious lady (played by Emma Thompson), Northam had already landed the considerably more substantial part of Mr. Knightley in Douglas MacGrath's 1996 adaptation of the Austen novel Emma.

The always wonderful Octavia Spencer is finally getting some more substantial material after her Oscar win for 2011's The Help, and she gets a decently fleshed out role here.

In addition, Deadline is reporting that Smith will have a «major role» in the movie, which shall grow into something even more substantial in the second and third installment in the new planned Terminator trilogy (which, rumor has it, will be shot back - to - back).

Hill would gain a substantial amount of weight for the role, which gives a swagger to his walk and a presence that challenges Miles Teller's more straight - laced, but easily led, Packouz character.

And Rockwell has found a role that makes full use of his goofy charisma while harnessing it to something more substantial.

He was seen last year in «Straw Dogs» and «Cowboys & Aliens,» and on the way, he's got a small role in the troubled «G.I. Joe: Retaliation,» as well a more substantial part, as congressman Wells Hutchins, a key ally of the title character, in Steven Spielberg «s «Lincoln» — a job that should let him make a break from the thugs and villains he usually plays.

The young cast all have substantial credits, and though none of them is likely to cite this movie as one of their great performances, they do have sufficient craft and experience to inhabit their roles so they are more than walking clichés.

Let's negotiate our way past that and look at a more substantial supporting role he's had as part of one of Ron Howard's many prestige pictures.

At the same Comic - Con weekend, the French director Luc Besson very excitedly revealed Rihanna's substantial role in his upcoming space sci - fi blow»em up, «Valerian;» the takeaway, more or less, is that she will be playing an alien stripper.

The ensemble cast is impressive, and each perform quite well in fleshing out their small roles into something more substantial.

It is nice to see living legends Caine, Freeman, and Arkin sink their teeth into roles slightly more substantial than the supporting duties they take in bigger new films.

Some carp that the role is too brief to win here, especially given Amy Adams, in a much more durationally substantial role, is competition.

I wonder if Ian McKellen's role in «Apocalypse» will just be a cameo, or if he will given something a little more substantial.

The powerful rear end underscores once more the special role of the Ibiza Cupra as the new benchmark among compact sports cars — the yellow of the broad bumper frames the substantial, matt - black, diffuser and the trapezoidal exhaust outlet.

I think two key planks of Putin's developing / new strategy will be a i) a wave of privatization to decrease the role of the state in the economy, and more importantly, ii) a substantial and sustained investment in infrastructure projects.

Veterinarians today are playing a more significant role and having a more substantial impact on the world than ever before.

It's an initial sign that the oil and gas industry is waking up to the need for far more transparency if shale gas is to play a substantial role in America's energy mix any time soon.

Carbon pricing can, however, play a critical role in meeting in the most efficient and effective way the commitments that countries are now entering into; it can also raise substantial revenues that can be used to reduce other, more distorting taxes.

Dr. Judith Curry: The uncertainties in ocean heat content below 700 m are very substantial, see http://judithcurry.com/2014/01/21/ocean-heat-content-uncertainties/... The role of internal ocean behavior in climate change was almost completely neglected up the AR4; the AR5 takes it a bit more seriously.

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

In turn, this has played a substantial role in attracting many more highly qualified applicants to the Ontario Court of Justice, thereby enhancing professionalism on the bench.

Without a doubt, if we are to give a more «substantial» role to software systems in the law, we should know what we are doing.

Their stylistic similarity across the two roles of support seeker and support provider may point to substantial individual differences in the participants» communication skills, with impoverished communication skills being reflected in more instances of negative support seeking and negative support provision

«This growth is notable not only because it is so substantial, but also because institutional investors have taken a much more active role in this market than in the past,» the Harvard researchers reported.