Sentences with phrase «outsize roles in»

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Democracies played an outsize role in creating the climate problem, the U.S. and Europe each responsible for more than a quarter of the excess CO2 in the air, and they must play a major role in the solution.

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.

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

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Spall goes for broke in the outsize title role.

Chloë Grace Moretz has played such outsize characters as a foul - mouthed adolescent assassin, a telekinetic teen outcast and a deceptively fresh - faced vampire, but this weekend she returns to theaters in quite a different role: a normal girl.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

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 foundation is the largest education funder in the U.S., and in that role it has the potential to have an outsize impact on school reforms.

Though he didn't play a major technical role in his cars recently and in some respects never did — that's what the likes of Phil Remington and Peter Brock were for — his outsize persona and the cult he inspired are what made them Shelbys.

[Andy Revkin — By acknowledging their «leadership role,» the world's established economic giants are reaffirming that they have an outsize responsibility to act first, and harder, in curbing emissions.

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.