Sentence examples for be a real factor from inspiring English sources
"The judge is going to be a real factor in this case, because she is the kind of judge who makes her presence felt," said Dick DeGuerin, a criminal defense lawyer in Houston.
"We think that live broadcast and live streaming are going to be a real factor on the Internet, and it's going to be very soon," David Peterschmidt, Inktomi's president and chief executive, said in a telephone interview.
But San Diego's step-up in competition will be a real factor this week, especially against a Patriots team that barely escaped with a victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Week 3. Did the Chiefs unlock the mystery of the Patriots' defense or was it an aberration?
Rich predicts that right-wing doctor Ben Carson ("Obamacare is worst thing since slavery" said this African-American) WILL run for president and, by grabbing 15percentt of the far-right vote, be a real factor in the Iowa caucuses.
And now for the first time in a long time, Woods may be a real factor, in fact in some betting circles he's now listed as the favorite to win. 5. Boys Take some music and put it under a montage of images of Stanley Cup winning teams and voila you've got a great promo, with a great tag line.
And, in some cases, the health of an industry or the markets is a real factor.
There are some instances where the gender difference is a real factor.
Paul Krugman: Gentrification is a real factor, but smaller than those of us who tend to hang around central cities might imagine.
Terrorism is a real factor in "The Ghost," if only because Mr. Harris (whose glossily commercial novels include "Fatherland," "Imperium" and "Pompeii") is sufficiently formulaic and commercial to know that his story needs pretexts for action as well as caustic prose.
Mr. Fischer said, bizarrely, that he thought the Russians were motivated in part "by their Christian heritage," which has not been a real factor in Russia since, oh, 1917.
