Sentence examples for acting as primary from inspiring English sources

Mate choice comes at a high cost to women, Dr. Allan said: pregnancy, childbirth and, often, the responsibility of acting as primary caregivers.

In the last 10 years the number of fathers acting as primary custodians of children under 18 rose 62percentt -- there are now 2.2 million of us, accounting for 2.1percentt of all American households.

Width reduction of the canal was also closely related to the possible redundancy, in the upright position, of the meninges and yellow ligaments acting as primary factors in the reduction of canal amplitude in normal patients [11, 20].

The literature reviewed details experimental investigations carried out on 136 treatment plants, including free water surface systems, as well as horizontal and vertical subsurface flow beds (pilot or full-scale) acting as primary, secondary or tertiary treatments.

The compression of morbidity serves as the underlying paradigm for health promotion and health improvement programs, viewed from a lifespan perspective, and requiring behavior changes acting as primary prevention of morbidity.

In May 2007 Tishman's opp fund, with Lehman acting as primary lender and minority stakeholder, agreed to pay $60.75 a share for Archstone Communities, a hefty 18% markup to the company's price earlier that month.

Of the seventeen stakeholders approached sixteen were accessible (94%) and interviewed in-person by two researchers, one acting as the primary interviewer and the other was there to act as the primary note taker and to ensure consistency across interviews.

For decades, political influence in this country has been a direct function of a politician's ability to borrow and spend, with local banks, as the main buyers of Greek government bonds, acting as the primary facilitators.

If yes, ST(2) responds by sending a cooperative clear-to-help (CCTH) message to PT and PR, and the primary system correspondingly switches to a two-phase AF relaying transmission mode, with ST(1) acting as the primary relay.

A water-cooled coil, or inductor, acting as the primary winding of a transformer, surrounds the material to be heated (the workpiece), which acts as the secondary winding.

Talking about the Danvers hiccupers, Bartholomew told The Atlantic magazine that there is "potential for a far greater or wider global episode unless we quickly understand how social media is acting as the primary vector for conversion disorder.