Sentence examples for important umbrella from inspiring English sources

McShea's primary research focus is ecology and conservation of wildlife, and he said that pandas are an important "umbrella" species.

It was also in this era that the federal government began to provide core funding for groups, the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC), which became an important umbrella organization for Canada's feminist movement.

Such transitions alter the food-web structure of the entire lake and can critically affect the food availability of the plankton-filtering lesser flamingo (Harper et al., 2003; Krienitz and Kotut, 2010), one of the most important umbrella species of East Africa.

Spending a week on a deserted island is one of those romantic ideas that's better in theory than in practice; sure, the privacy is terrific, but what about the lack of room service and fruity cocktails, not to mention the all-important umbrella?

They are important as an umbrella species — if their diverse habitat is protected, it protects other prairie species, from migratory song sparrows to pygmy rabbits and mule deer.

The Communist Party leader, Gennadi A. Zyuganov, in a televised interview tonight, reiterated his view that the treaty "in its current state is absolutely defective" and would destroy "Russia's most important nuclear missile umbrella" at a time when Russia lacks the budget resources to maintain a strategic missile force as large as that of the United States.

American and Iraqi experts also say there appear to be important distinctions among the umbrella groups.

David Keene, the former chairman of the American Conservative Union, which puts on the event, had justified the participation of the gay group, GoProud, saying it was important to "give an umbrella for all groups that are legitimately conservative on most issues".

Talking about it is important, but using the umbrella of a "men's rights movement" is offensive.

Since 3 out of the 4 genes in the broader fragile X gene family are putative targets of miR‐181 species, we speculate that this microRNA family may play an important role as an "umbrella regulator" of ASD‐relevant genes.

Additionally, some reports suggest that MMP13 is important in IBD, an umbrella term that includes Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis (UC), two chronic relapsing inflammatory disorders of the gut.