Sentences with phrase «plays at least some role»

Though there has never been hard data on the presence of wealthy Asian investors, enough anecdotal evidence exists to suggest they have played at least some role in the multimillion - dollar home segment.

Parent involvement in school - based activities seems to have the greatest effect on kids» grades, but home - based parent involvement also plays at least some role.

Because sperm issues play at least some role in infertility in up to half of all cases, it's important for the male partner to be involved in the initial fertility workup as well.

«It therefore seems likely that the arsenic - induced inflammatory response plays at least some role in arsenic - induced cancer,» she says.

Student loans have always played at least some role in helping American college students pay for their education, but in recent years the amount of student loan debt held by American graduate students has exploded.

I expected to play at least some role in Niko's journey, even if I couldn't necessarily determine all the outcomes.

Hence, carbon - cycle feedbacks linked to biological activity appear to have played at least some role in the climate variations of the past thousand years.

Increased global temperatures caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases are extremely likely to have played at least some role in more than four out of five flooding days from Key West to Fernandina, Florida, and the study indicates that at the locations analyzed, more than 3,500 flood days since 1950 would not have occurred without human influence.

We can debate about what that says about your practice, but there's no doubt that design will play at least some role in a person's impression.

The same number of Americans (71 %) also thought the home mortgage interest deduction plays at least some role in driving the housing market — with 24 percent calling it a huge factor and another 18 percent calling it a pretty big factor.

Not exact matches

Although the FiveThirtyEight founder doesn't mention it (at least not yet), the media's desire for false equivalence or false balance likely played a role in the election's outcome as well.

A switch is at least moderately sensible when you consider the króna has caused problems for decades and played a crucial role in the crisis.

At least 10 tech companies played a role directly or indirectly in supporting these sites.

To admit that the company plays a significant role in the way that people consume information, and that this role isn't just as a distributor of news, suggests that he is willing to at least consider what kinds of responsibilities Facebook might have.

At least half of the June rebound is explained by the oil rebound, though the Pan Am Games in Toronto played a positive role as well.

The role that big pharma plays in research, while valuable, is often tenuous, because profit models for many diseases are not always apparent, at least in the short term.

The global financial crisis, like the Great Crash of 1929, also reflected widespread regulatory shortcomings and other weaknesses in a number of countries.1 But it is likely that monetary policy played at least a contributing role in encouraging the buildup of leverage and asset prices in a fragile financial system.

It says something about the magnitude of the event that it played out during the tenure of two central bank Governors, each of whom were in the role for a decade, and will likely still be an important issue, in the early stages at least, for the next Governor.

But the mortgage lenders and the ratings agencies they hired assured clients that these mortgages were good and could be paid — or at least that the market would continue to rise, so that if there was a default, new buyers would play the role of the proverbial «greater fool» and buy properties being foreclosed.

I know I said technology shouldn't play a role in shaving, but I am thankful for at least one technological advancement where shaving is concerned — razor blades.

Like no other event in at least a generation, CETA could play a powerful role in nurturing those common values and interests.

Today, most participants in the debate about welfare reform» at least those outside the realms of the ACLU and the Children's Defense Fund» agree with Olasky that the government has not and can not offer this kind of effective compassion, and that consequently we must enlarge the role private charities play in the lives of the underclass.

Science has an especially rich and often fraught role to play in society; if we don't at least acknowledge this we imply it is unimportant.

Along the way, Milbank suggests that the Church's emphasis on sexual sins and on hell played a role in secularization, and he ends by asking how we can affirm at least some «procedure and institutionalization» in reinventing a more participatory, erotic, and interpersonal Christianity.

But it may be even more unnerving for some to find that the concept of a Supreme Being apparently does not play a central role in his religious philosophy, at least not in his ethical teachings.

That said, there have been strains of eastern thought which at the very least down - played the role of god or gods, eg confucianism and even buddhism.

When later tradition interprets Moses as a performing prophet, as a prophet whose primary medium is not utterance, but action, we wonder if this may not reflect typo - logical characterization at least in part; the tendency, that is, to see in Moses and Samuel a common «type,» playing similarly vigorous, creative historical roles.

In at least one medical school in Australia, prospective doctors are being taught to take seriously the role media might be playing in shaping their patients» self - diagnosis and how this might affect the patient's receptiveness to medical treatment.

[10] As mentioned above, shortly to be published Australian research of mine found that: «84 \ % of parents believe that parents should play at least an equal role with schools in sex education.»

God would prefer men in this role so if I knew any better you probably got divorce at least once trying to take the place of the man and lead the house because that is exactly what you sound like a women who will not play the role she is meant to play and just be submissive.

But, what if we could at least limit the deaths due to mass shootings, where assault rifles seem to play the major role?

After all, we're all in this together — at least, I think we are — and each of us have a role to play in building one another up as the Body of Christ.

It's true that most of the founders were at least loosely Christian; they affirmed the existence of Providence and thought that Providence played a role in the shaping of the new nation.

American commentators with European credibility should have been deployed throughout the continent, in person and through the electronic media, to challenge the virtually unchallenged cartoon of American evangelical cowboys running riot in the world» a cartoon that helps explain, at least in part, the vapors of Anglican bishops in Great Britain who imagine that Tim LaHaye's fictional speculations on the Book of Revelation play a formative role in U.S. foreign policy.

Riboflavin (vitamin B2) also plays at least two important roles in the body's energy production.

Because epigenetics is the real driver of your health status, and diet plays a major role in gene expression (aka epigenetics), at least in this post's animal study!

Wenger has always played with at least one DM and Wilshire, by my memory, has never been selected by Wenger in that role.

Probably a fine player who will give us more depth and make us a better team but in my opinion, with Coq and Elneny both playing well in the DM role we should have kept our powder dry or at least prioritize a striker or CD over singing another, albeit good, DM.

Injuries played a role in these breakdowns — only two of the top six tacklers on the line played in all 13 games, and thanks to injuries and shuffling, 15 different defensive backs recorded at least 5 tackles.

In the meantime I plan on enjoying watching Chambers, Holding and Bielek in the US and hope at least one of them starts showing something to suggest they can play some kind of role with the big boys this year.

In speaking with reporters Tuesday, Boston general manager Danny Ainge admitted that Thomas» hip situation played at least «some» role in his decision to deal the point guard.

That left Arsenal with the options of Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini, or at least that is what we thought until Wenger's post-match words last night, reported by Arsenal.com., when the boss revealed his plans to get Abou Diaby playing in that role.

Chambers can not play that role for us, at least not at this stage of his career.

Whilst there is no denying that Brendan Rodgers could well do with attacking alternatives one would have to wonder how an 6ft 8in forward would fit into the Liverpool's boss's style of play, not least as Andy Carroll was loaned out to West Ham due to his apparent unsuitability for a forward role at the Merseyside club.

Assuming we are top or at least close to the top by then, the festive fixtures always play a big role in the destination of the BPL trophy and ours include the visit of Man City and the trip to Southampton, but look at January.

I think Wenger should at least be looking at a player that can play both roles in the pivot, because Santi doesn't have many years left either.

Smith & Coyle are at least average performers, Toomer has been above average in a part - time role, and Foster is near - elite (but very unlikely to play in any of the first 6 games).

I strongly believe he should / will be given another season at least to show what he can do albeit in a different role to which he wants... he will have ro reinvent himself and learn to play and score from the wings because to be perfectly frank he had more than enough time and games to show he can top strike for us when he first joined and Giroud was out Injured and he was less than impressive goals wise.....

Theo Walcott is a very dangerous player.Arsenal should be lucky to have him.I do hope he signs a new contract because we need him very much.In my opinion he should stay on the wing because he is specialized for that role.His style of play shows this.He would get us a lot of goals when playing at the wing so at least he should be there instead of the cf role where he may or may not excel.SIGN DA TING

regarding today's match i think BFG deserves to be axed not monreal, he's been decent in that CB role, at least better than he performs when he plays LB, anything we get apart from 3 points today means we have no chance of seeing the arsenal we've alwyzd wanted.