Sentence examples for had a large hand from inspiring English sources

Life-sustaining (and often costly) treatments such as resuscitation and surgery are not allowed.The federal government has had a large hand in the development of hospices.

He had a large hand in the choice of Cesar Pelli, an architect whose work he greatly admires, to do the tower.

Since then, Venezuela has increasingly become a transit point for drugs heading from South America to the rest of the world — a situation that Mr. Barrera had a large hand in developing.

Bret Harte (1836-1902) had a large hand in shaping the mythology of the American West with his short stories about the California gold rush and the frontier towns of his youth.

But Boymelgreen has guaranteed attention for its project by commissioning Mr. Starck, 55, arguably France's best-known designer, who had a large hand in recreating the Royalton, Paramount and Hudson Hotels in Manhattan.

Attenberg Athina Rachel Tsangari's in-competition "Attenberg" also features a father-daughter relationship, between Marina (Ariane Labed) and her dying architect father, Spyros (Vangelis Mourikis), set in a new Greek seaside factory town, which Spyros had a large hand in building.

In a World Cup that has continually confounded expectations, South Korea and Turkey have had a larger hand than most in sending pre-tournament orthodoxies tumbling.

That committee, driven by a desire to see debts repaid, will have a large hand in the governance of the company.

Not outlaw against the laws of the state – they generally have a large hand in writing those – but outlaw against the laws of physics.

The chapel has a large hand-carved wooden tree of life on one wall and constellations of metal stars on the ceiling.

Velociraptor, like other dromaeosaurids, had a large manus ('hand') with three strongly curved claws, which were similar in construction and flexibility to the wing bones of modern birds.