Sentences with phrase «played little role»

Despite being Jewish, religion played little role in her life.

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.

Based upon signs left by old glaciers, researchers say the climate was already cold when the Norse arrived — and that climate thus probably played little role in their mysterious demise some 400 years later.

I am not of the mind that it is intentional or some vast sexist conspiracy but rather a continued belief due to lack of education (continually ignored in materials used for education in high schools, colleges and art schools) that women played little role in the arts or history.

Vetere notes these numbers were about equal or up from two years ago, and overall, the economy has played little role in pet care.

Tax havens played little role, even if they aided securitization in a few ways.

Either way, dividend yields played little role.

«Other studies of the district have found that students» race, wealth, English proficiency or previous achievement level played little role in whether their teacher was effective.»

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

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.

Race and gender played little role in shaping responses.

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.

«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.»

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

Communitarian and ecological concerns play little role.

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.

«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.

In these rare cases diet and lifestyle play little role, if any.

Like these were little... I chose to play some little roles that they were still good parts, but they were little parts in movies that had big ambitions with great directors, and it really had a major impact both on just my own enjoyment and satisfaction of taking part in something that had potential to be relevant, and then also it's had an impact on my career, as well.

While I do not do anything on the social netwroks at all, I disagree with his observations, that they play little role in book reading and book enjoyment.

This is what has hollowed out the unions, leaving them largely to serve governments, where technological improvement plays little role, because there is no possibility of competition in government, mostly.

Either the precipitate is solid and plays little role (other than to seal off surfaces that might be fresh sources of Ca in the ocean), or it is a readily re-dissolved source of ions that then play significant role in buffering reactions and altering biochemistry.

In urban stop - and - go driving, aerodynamic forces play little role, but rolling resistance and especially inertial forces are critical.

Unfortunately, science plays little role in the public debate surrounding global warming.

I have seen a number of statistical models of surface temperatures which appear to achieve good fits using explanatory variables which play little role, if any, in the coupled ocean and atmospheric models that the IPCC relies on.

The expanded world of young school - age children, the greater richness of children's emotional and cognitive abilities, and the increasing importance of children's social and recreational life outside the home lead many to conclude that the concept of the primary caretaker should play little role in determining custody, however, particularly after the age of 5 (Chambers, 1984.

Not exact matches

Changes to superannuation policy played a role in the significantly reduced majority for the Turnbull government at the July 2 election, but if you look a little deeper you find something far more interesting — the government can't afford its retirement policies, and some retired people can't afford to live.

This is an engineering and manufacturing driven business and marketing has always played a little bit of an ancillary role.

Leadership WA: Tell us a little bit about your background and how you came to play so many different leadership roles in the state and in the nation?

It's little secret that personalization, customization, and automation will play massive roles in the future of business.

A little - known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team.

And from his telling of the Chobani story, it was clear that a little bit of «elevation» — what some might call craziness — certainly played a role.

A little - known former prosecutor with a doctorate in medieval history will play a central role on U.S. President Donald Trump's legal team, as many top - tier lawyers shy away from representing him in a probe into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

As inevitably strange situations and new sensations came and went at my reunion (because reunions are kind of wonderfully odd), I couldn't escape constant little reminders of how the new technologies we've so quickly become immersed in, are playing a role not only in our need but also our ability to be connected.

More recently, the lack of new banking charters is playing a big role — as banks continue to merge and close, there's been little influx of new institutions to balance that out.

But I think if we were going to try to simplify this so that it makes a little bit of sense for people I think one of the main reasons that we can talk about why this might be happening comes down to central banks around the globe are playing a major role in the buying and selling of financial assets and an extreme degree.

Similar standards - based professional organizations have been critical to the functioning of our traditional economy, and there is little doubt that the DCC will play an equally important role in the emerging digital currency economy.

It also shows that the present government has little appreciation for the role that transparency should play in the public sector.

They also make mention of the beer and wine industry and the important role it plays in our tourism sector, but offer little details on a strategy to better link them together.

While these public renunciations and fatwas may have little impact on the leadership of jihadi groups, they play a significant role in delegitimizing jihadi ideology and thereby undermining its appeal to young Muslims.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

Whitehead was a mathematical physicist, and there can be little doubt that the breakdown of materialistic and substantialistic categories in physics played a large role in persuading him to look elsewhere for what is most real.

This simple picture, however, is more than a little complicated by the fact that Deleuze himself — in his one and only sustained discussion of Whitehead's philosophy (cf. TE 76 - 82)-- sketches out the possibility of a chaosmology within which Whitehead's God would have a positive, indeed an essential, role to play.

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.

All this in defense of a document that left the ordinary citizen with little or no role to play in the new government.

My little object lesson through role - playing was drawn from actual experiences.

Concern for human welfare will play little or no role for the man whose only motivations are curiosity and technical interest.

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