Sentence examples for a direct contributor from inspiring English sources

The UN special rapporteur on violence against women has identified the complete ban on abortion as a direct contributor to the country's high maternal mortality rates.

Although sovereign borrowing was not a direct contributor to the crisis of 2008, it has since become the principal danger to the financial system.

My aim today is less ambitious, but I would like to begin by stating unequivocally that my government regards the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, especially its secret protocols, as a crime, and a direct contributor to the Nazi attack on Poland that we are marking today.Those were dark and shameful years for many countries.

The effect of GNPs on mitochondrial processes could be a direct contributor to the DNA damage seen upon exposure to gold nanoparticles, as mitochondria have been shown to play a role in the induction of DNA damage (Tartier et al. [2007]).

Alina Tugend, in her excellent new book "Better by Mistake," illustrates through fascinating examples how the expectation of perfection -- in business, in the practice of medicine, even in aviation -- has been a direct contributor to catastrophic failures.

"Other cities should be doing as much as we are". Laguna Niguel, while not a direct contributor to Aliso Creek, continues to take steps to catch urban runoff before it flows into streams, said Nancy Palmer, the city's environmental programs manager.

Trade also emerges as a powerful direct contributor to long-term total factor productivity, especially in its embodied form, through the acquisition of advanced machinery and equipment from more developed countries.

The imperative for more priority-driven research came from the recognition that ' [r]esearch is an important direct contributor to improving the health of the Australian population and increasing effectiveness, efficiency and equity in a health system coming under ever-increasing pressure' [ 4].

The latter is itself an important direct contributor to the delay in women receiving timely and appropriate maternity care upon reaching a facility (known as the Phase 3 delay), which increases the risk of maternal and newborn mortality through delayed treatment of obstetric complications [ 15].

By genetically manipulating ancestral and evolved strains, we showed that the single yegS inactivation was sufficient to confer a frequency dependent fitness increase under the chemostat selective conditions in both the ancestor and evolved genetic contexts, implying that the duplication itself was not a direct fitness contributor.

In his discussion of science and religion in the novel, John Glendening notes that both character commentary on Darwin's publications along with the epigraphs mentioning those works as direct contributor's to the novels emphasis on science superseding religion.