Sentence examples for a number of responsible from inspiring English sources

He held a number of responsible posts toward the end of the Weimar period as minister for the provinces occupied by the Allies (1929 30) and minister of the interior in the Cabinet of Heinrich Brüning (1930 31).

The key parallels included the up-regulation of several homeobox genes and the repression of a number of genes responsible for the positive regulation of immune response.

Caesar amnestied his opponents wholesale and gave a number of them responsible positions in his new regime.

"A number of individuals responsible for carrying out the execution process were careless, cavalier and in some circumstances dismissive of established procedures," Pruitt said.

Scholars and the nuns themselves point to a number of factors responsible for the dwindling population of nuns, a decline far more precipitous than the corresponding drop in the number of Roman Catholic priests.

Pickles said the move was part of a wider approach to "put communities back in charge", backed by the abolition of a number of quangos responsible for monitoring standards and conduct in local government.

The genome sequence of C. necator H16 encodes a number of genes responsible for the degradation of fatty acids in this organism, and different sets of genes are expressed under different growth conditions.

After carrying out inspections on buildings in the town itself, a number of deficiencies responsible for the damage caused were detected in RC elements, as well as behavioural alterations caused by non-load-bearing walls.

Since the explosion at the firm's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico in April, a number of socially responsible funds and asset managers have divested their BP holdings.

This act of mutiny eventually failed and a number of those responsible were tried and executed.

A number of genes responsible for RP have been identified, most of them related to the phototransduction pathways.