Sentences with phrase «play meaningful roles»

Rush, which is the largest independent dealer of Navistar trucks, also thinks it can «play a meaningful role» in getting Navistar to trade in older model trucks, refurbish those trucks then sell them through its dealers.

I'm thinking that, unless Vitalik subtly managed to telepathically hack everyone's brains so buyers would participate in the pre-sale in an organized fashion, it would appear that a lot of Ether — enough Ether to move markets or, if the system migrates to proof - of - stake, enough to play a meaningful role in determining consensus on a block - by - block basis — was sold to not a lot of people.

Additionally, investment income, which has been strong of late due to rising asset valuations, also plays a meaningful role in the top - line figure.

From the NCAA's vantage point, the survey indicates that amateurism plays a meaningful role in drawing to college football and basketball.

The Sandals Foundation funds projects in three core areas: education, community, and the environment, in an effort to play a meaningful role in the lives of the Caribbean communities in which they operate.

We must take action to ensure that government plays a meaningful role in the lives of the many, not just the few.

«If the UK is to play a meaningful role in the world in the future, sufficient funding for defence research needs to be ring - fenced,» they claim.

«Vaccines should not be viewed as a silver bullet that can subdue cholera in Haiti but wider use of them, such as in campaigns targeting particularly vulnerable populations, can play a meaningful role in protecting people from illness and death.»

SAVCA intends playing a meaningful role in the Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry by promoting self - regulation.

While neither of those things will actually happen, there is increasing danger of a compromise whereby the federal government continues to disburse billions of dollars to local schools but plays no meaningful role in determining how — or how well — that money is spent.

The organization flatly rejects that teachers played no meaningful role: «The Common Core State Standards drafting process relied on teachers and standards experts from across the country.»

Most importantly, our participants, who spoke energetically and with passion, demonstrated a deep commitment to students and a strong desire to play a meaningful role in efforts to improve education in Baltimore City.

Shift our education culture to one of blame (not good enough, not enough $, what's wrong within the bureaucracy and within school walls) to one of ownership, where EVERYONE (individuals and organizations) reflects on how they can contribute to better outcomes for youth and how we each can play a meaningful role in the development of children from pre-natal to adulthood.

Offer teacher leaders and principals opportunities to play a meaningful role in shaping district policies and practice.

We hope the work captured in this report will offer something of value to all those who are striving to ensure that our nation's schools play a meaningful role in preparing our students for whatever lies ahead.

«This investment provides Barnes & Noble with capital to grow its business on terms that are attractive for both parties and allows us to play a meaningful role in shaping their success to generate returns for our shareholders and theirs.»

Our analysis shows that the profitability or quality factor plays a meaningful role in cross-sectional dispersion of small - cap stocks» returns.

While most popular trend following programs take a multi-asset approach (e.g. managed futures programs), we believe that single - asset strategies can play a meaningful role in investor portfolios.

Each satellite should be large enough to play a meaningful role but not so substantial that it can have a large adverse effect on the performance of the core.

Back in the olden days, role playing games used to focus on character interactions that didn't boil down to an exchange of bullets to the face, choices that impacted in - game communities in more meaningful ways than you dropping by to unload the loot like a one - man coat drive, comprehensive character development, team building, stories with actual endings, and all the things that had something to do with playing a meaningful role (get it?)

CS: To say that content plays a meaningful role in HubSpot's branding and marketing efforts would be an understatement.

Various experts, including a nonpartisan panel at M.I.T., have said the world needs something like 10 FutureGen - style projects to be developed in the next decade or so if there is to be any hope that gas - trapping technology will play a meaningful role in stanching the tens of billions of tons of carbon dioxide that will be coming from coal burning in the next few decades.

The photograph is the latest evidence that orbiting «eyes» can play a meaningful role in documenting abuses that, in times past, might remain hidden to the world.

Q. Do you think humor / irony can play a meaningful role in changing attitudes?

The joint workshop informed decision makers on the opportunities and challenges of advanced EOR and provided clear recommendations on how advanced EOR can play a meaningful role in national energy and emissions reductions.

This two - day workshop brought together 60 participants including public policy makers, researchers, industry experts and IEA and KAPSARC representatives to discuss ways for CO2 - EOR to play a meaningful role in national energy production and emissions reductions.

Mass balance transfer to the calving front is a slow process with a large lag time (centuries) and is not capable of playing a meaningful role in the recent relatively large and sudden glacier accelerations (Pfeffer, 2007).

«It's important to me to get to know and understand my clients and their businesses so that I can play a meaningful role in helping them to achieve their short and long term objectives,» Danny says.

It sets an important precedent that demonstrates that courts can play a meaningful role in the most lawless of situations, the military coup, in promoting a restoration of democracy and the displaced constitutional order.

As one of his admirers noted, «Despite his advanced age, Roy McMurtry remains as determined as ever to continue to play a meaningful role in Canadian public life — there are still windmills at which to tilt and memoirs yet to be written.»

Prior to this decision there was an assumption that Parliament already had the power to unilaterally change our electorate model, as long as the system maintained relative parity of voting power, played a meaningful role in the democratic process, and promoted the right of each citizen to participate in the electoral process.

In order to play a meaningful role in the development of blockchain - based technologies, we owe it to the public to create a legal profession with sufficient tech literacy, above and beyond what is typically understood to be included in the duty of technological competence in jurisdictions where this applies (i.e. «know enough not to mess up»).

«They've given me an opportunity to play a meaningful role,» said Groia, who sits on several committees at the law society.

Through products and platforms like Search, Maps, Gmail, Android, Google Play, Chrome and YouTube, Google plays a meaningful role in the daily lives of billions of people and has become one of the most widely - known companies in the world.

Store Team Members play a meaningful role within the CVS Health...

SAVCA intends playing a meaningful role in the Venture Capital and Private Equity Industry by promoting self - regulation.

In the present study, cognitive as well as affective empathy, and dispositional as well as situational forms of empathy played a meaningful role in shaping the provision of spousal support.

For each of the three types of support provision, the empathy of the support provider — either dispositional or situational — appears to play a meaningful role.

Not exact matches

«We really believe in the endless possibilities of blockchain and cryptocurrency to change the world, and we want to play an integral role in making them part of the mainstream, through education and meaningful collaboration on our platform.»

In the last ten years I have moved increasingly toward experiential teaching (using self - awareness exercises, role playing of counseling methods, live demonstrations of growth groups, and so forth), which involves the students» own feelings, responses, and needs; asking the students to draw up their own «learning contract» based on what they want to get from a given course or workshop; expecting students to participate in the teaching by sharing in some systematic way the insights they have discovered to be meaningful; revealing my own struggles, uncertainties, and weaknesses; and asking the students to evaluate anonymously the course, including my teaching.

The Tulsa native was a big - time recruit who skipped college and played professionally in Australia where he played a limited but meaningful role for his team.

It seems highly unlikely that the Knicks will find anyone willing to take on that much money for a player who might not ever play a meaningful NBA role again.

«No meaningful data suggest that anchoring plays any material role in driving participation rates,» said Nager, who urged all levels of the game to continue playing under one set of rules.

Remember, you play an important role in making sure your child finds lots of meaningful friendships.

Birth grandparents can play an integral and meaningful role in the open adoption relationship and the adoption planning process.

They can play an integral role in supporting their child in having honored, mutually meaningful relationships with their birth families as they grow and learn to experience trust, love and commitment within the context of family.

The special cholera section of the Journal also includes evidence that cholera vaccine has a role to play in fighting the epidemic, despite the many challenges to achieving meaningful coverage in Haiti.

It is clear that the People's Liberation Army plays a major role in China's space missions, says Dean Cheng, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. «It begs the question of whether there is a civilian manned space program in any meaningful sense of the word,» he says.

Since it was founded in 1996, the Clinical Research Forum has enabled the sharing of best practices in clinical research, informed meaningful policy dialogues and increasingly played a national advocacy role in support of clinical research.

Joanna Dwyer, a professor of medicine and community health and the editor of Nutrition Today, is optimistic about the outcome of the summit, asserting that they «now understand that spices and herbs have a meaningful role to play in bringing flavor to the forefront of today's health and wellness conversations.»