And, as similar lawsuits will undoubtedly work their way across several affected industries, it's clear that the struggle for climate resilience will, at least to some extent, play out in the courts.
On Monday, Pope Francis toured parts of Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, a country wracked in recent years by civil strife that to an extent played along sectarian lines.
Even Eckert's incomplete summary shows the extent to which all the bidders were to a greater or lesser extent playing the same game: calling in favours, signing up ambassadors, playing friendlies, offering "development" funds to far-flung corners of world football.
Case-filing judges to some extent play the role of vintners.
The research and innovation to that extent play a greater role to bring excellence to the commercial world.
All these guys are, to some extent, playing to what they see as the base of the Republican Party, which is the party's right wing, and which is the extreme right wing of the electorate as a whole.
The American president whose personal story and style exudes optimism will be, to a substantial extent, playing the role of pessimist, or realist, at the summit, as he must not seek to minimize the seriousness of the economic problems we all face.
The investigators to a large extent play an important role because they have to observe a high level of integrity to comply with ethical standards as well as report any protocol events accurately.
These computational models suggest that molecular guidance cues and neural activity may, at least to some extent, play more overlapping and independent roles in neural development than previously thought.
The analysis we shall develop in the sections 3 and 4 shall attempt to show that although the Global Fund is silent about its role as a financing instrument that allows countries to fulfil the right to health it has to a certain extent played such a role.
