Cantor is adept at summoning history (a rapid glimpse, say, of Malcolm X in Ghana, "admonitory, precise," sipping tea and dispensing homilies in a bar in Accra), and even better at showing historical consciousness at work, claiming its role in the psychic drama along with guilt and lust and petty self-regard and the barter economy of moral reckoning.
The E2F3 transcription factor claims its role in controlling cell cycle progression.
Due to considerable improvements in hard- and software design in the last decade, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has claimed its role as a central player in a large variety of cardiac diseases, not infrequently offering unique information about tissue characterization, disease severity and impact on cardiac function and perfusion.
Unencumbered by superfluous toppings, the street taco's meat is allowed to claim its rightful role as culinary King Shit around these parts.
The N.L.D. had hoped that President Thein Sein could talk the Constitutional Court into changing the controversial wording, but the court demurred, claiming that its role is to interpret, not change, the Constitution.
Piketty claims that its role is growing even larger, and that this helps explain why inequality is rising so fast.
In the eyes of many American military officials and legislators, the Quds force is most infamous for what they claim was its role in supplying Iraq's Shia militias with explosive devices that were used, they say, to kill hundreds of American soldiers during the country's occupation.
It not only adds plausibility to claims about its role in promoting ill health, it's a mechanism that fellow researchers find plausible and convincing.
Andersen closed down in the US and agreed to pay $60m£32m2m) to settle legal claims over its role in Enron's collapse.
The F.D.I.C.'s board approved a global settlement that resolves claims over its role as receiver in the September 2008 takeover of the Washington Mutual Bank, the agency said.
Due to its near omnipresence in our society (24 million UK users each day), and some over-inflated claims about its role in several popular uprisings, Facebook has taken on an almost godlike status in the cultural consciousness.
