Sentence examples for a weak role for from inspiring English sources

"Before, because of these wrong results of CO2 lagging temperature, people were interpreting it as a weak role for CO2 in the climate variation of the past," Dr. Parrenin said.

Therefore, lattice distortion caused by scale inhibitor may play a weak role for calcium carbonate scale inhibition in the oilfield environment containing carbon dioxide.

A further consideration emerging from the analysis of our data is that the moderate expression of caspase 9 and overexpression of caspase 3 indicate a weak role for the intrinsic pathway in programmed cell death, a role that is played principally by the extrinsic pathway as demonstrated by our previous findings.

Nor should a stronger NATO mean a weaker role for the United Nations.

In conclusion, our results show that dominance plays a weaker role for male reproductive success in rhesus macaques than predicted by the PoA model.

It also means an even weaker role for local authorities, which are meant to oversee local arrangements and (wishful thinking) to take a progressive view of how school places might be allocated fairly in their patch.

There is still a role for random mutation, but West-Eberhard suggests that it plays a weaker role than the environment and intention of the organism at issue.

That there should be greater genetic effects on OA of the hand compared with other sites is not surprising given the relatively weaker role for environmental (including mechanical) factors.

For example, a functionalist could settle for a weaker, explanatory role for functional properties, leaving causal efficacy to the realizers of functional states (§6.4; see, e.g., Segal 2009; compare Block 1990).

Also on Wednesday, Lakhdar Brahimi, the United Nations special envoy, ended an 11-day visit to Iraq by outlining the beginnings of a plan -- he called it a "sketch" -- for a transition to Iraqi sovereignty, one that suggested a weaker continuing role for the United States than the Bush administration has envisioned.

She resists, and wonders if she had a "weak love for the role she played" with her uncle, "the novelty persona of cosseted scamp".