Sentence examples for act as initial from inspiring English sources
"Syrian grain imports are being transacted in large volumes using offices in Lebanon to handle the paperwork and act as initial buyer," one trader said.
Once the Chinese communists had achieved power, Liu's cosmopolitan outlook and experience with the Soviet leadership enabled him to act as initial spokesman for Beijing's new hard-line foreign policy, and it also gave him a central role in the formation of China's industrialization plans; both endeavours were dependent on Moscow in 1949.
The DDR response can be envisioned as a signal transduction cascade in which DNA lesions act as initial signals that are detected by sensors and passed through transducers [11], [12].
Several internal factors could act as initial stimuli in this respect; molecules known as danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs) [ 81] such as hyaluronic acid, high-mobility group box 1 (HMGB1), and heat shock protein are candidates.
Evidence of an effect, particularly if supported by opposing changes in proliferation and cell-cycle arrest markers, would act as initial corroboration of the normal tissue-based biomarker approach to proof of drug mechanism and dose/schedule finding described in the introduction to this paper.
In the version in Fig. 2a both panels act as Initials, conjoined within an Initial constituent (diagrammed in Fig. 2b).
These stoichiometric reactions often act as the initial step during the overall catalytic cycle.
Dr Aplin captured two males from each of eight of these areas, to act as her initial experimental subjects.
That opinion was apparently a reversal of J.P. Morgan's position earlier in the week, when it had agreed to the basic economic terms for the Asian companies to act as an initial and favored bidder for Global Crossing.
The first grid of this model is wetting phase (water) to act as the initial water saturation at the position of x = 0.
Various soluble sulfate species act as the initial oxidant of TSR, mainly including free sulfate ions (SO4 2−) and bisulfate ions (HSO4 −), solvent-shared ion-pairs (SIPs) and contact ion-pairs (CIPs) (Eigen and Tamm 1962; Atkinson and Petrucci 1966).
