Sentences with phrase «outsize role»

David Lindenmayer of the Australian National University College of Science in Canberra says that older trees play outsize roles in maintaining landscapes and ecosystems.

«But we remain deeply concerned about the continued outsize role of high - stakes testing in our school system.»

The country that has played such a ridiculously outsize role in the American imagination is right here before us, lush and threadbare, beguiling and humdrum, proud and ruined.

However, that very success may also have given some investors pause considering the drug's outsize role in Merck's revenue stream.

Now, decide if everyone, or just a select group — usually the team or department that played an outsize role in those profits — gets the bonus.

Breyer will be taking the stage today in Portugal, but he also sat down with us behind the scenes yesterday to talk about Facebook, Softbank, and ICOs, among other factors playing an outsize role in the startup ecosystem.

Money has always played an outsize role in political races, but its influence increased in 2014, when an aggregate limit of $ 150,000 on individual donors was struck down in a court, paving the way for a single donor to give the $ 102,300 maximum to more party committees and, ultimately, embattled candidates.

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley, who chairs the Queens Democrats, is expected to play an outsize role in the entire process this year.

The elevation of Melissa Mark - Viverito, 44, a Puerto Rican - born lawmaker who is the first Hispanic to hold the office, represents an early and significant victory for Mayor Bill de Blasio, who took an outsize role in engineering her election and now enjoys a partner at the reins of a legislative branch that could be vital in enacting much of his policy agenda.

Hochul, the former one - term congresswoman from Buffalo, is still not well - known in New York City, which plays an outsize role in Democratic primaries, typically delivering a little over 50 percent of the total ballots cast in low - turnout primaries.

As sleep declined, rapid - eye movement, or REM — sleep linked to learning and memory (SN: 6/11/16, p. 15)-- came to play an outsize role in human slumber, the researchers propose.

Pyrethroids have played an outsize role in the global fight against malaria in the last decades.

Outreach and education efforts can play an outsize role in disease elimination programs, researchers suggest in a review publishing July 25 in Trends in Parasitology.

As sleep declined, rapid - eye movement — or REM — sleep took on an outsize role in humans, Nunn and Samson propose.

These two organizations play an outsize role in our conversation about teachers because most of their placements are in large cities with large media markets, but they're relatively small from a national perspective.

What has been overlooked by all parties in the debate is that in the absence of workable teacher dismissal laws there is an outsize role parents play in what happens to truly bad teachers.

The Accord was Honda's best - selling nameplate for decades and the car has played an outsize role in shaping Honda's identity within the U.S. market, selling more than 13 million since 1976.

But the outsize role that commodities and international currencies play there makes them particularly sensitive to the shifting conditions.

There are also more market - driven mutterings about Murillo's long term «viability,» and insinuations that celebrity collectors (among them Orlando Bloom and Leonardo DiCaprio) have played an outsize role in his success.

Anselm Kiefer with his panoramas of paint and straw, Georg Baselitz with his world turned upside - down, and Gerhard Richter with photorealism and a squeegee — each was out both to remake and to question German history, the outsize role of the artist, and the claims of art itself.

Given the many illustrious universities, hospitals, museums, orchestras, theaters and other arts organizations, nonprofits play an outsize role in the nation's culture.

By contrast, unapologetic, big - ticket commercial galleries imported from New York and Europe (like Hauser & Wirth or Maccarone) experience relatively little blowback despite their outsize role in promoting these LA neighborhoods as international luxury destinations.

Dams once played an outsize role in the nation's energy supply, providing 40 percent of U.S. electricity in 1940.

Despite its outsize role in driving Amazon deforestation, the cattle industry has made relatively little progress in achieving sustainable supply chains compared to producers of other commodities like soy and palm oil.

One reason why judges have such an outsize role in e-discovery is that many trials turn on pretrial discovery motions, which are rarely challenged or overturned.

Students at Excel Academy in West Baltimore haven't experienced a school shooting, but have lost seven schoolmates to street gun violence in the last year and a half, and can share stories going back decades about the outsize role guns have played in their lives and the impact it has had on them.