Sentence examples for increasingly minor from inspiring English sources

The group, Hezb-i-Islami, or Islamic Party, has been an increasingly minor presence on the battlefield in recent years, pressured by coalition forces and chased from strongholds in central and eastern Afghanistan by its Taliban rivals.

That would be the formidable Ion Tiriac, the mustachioed Romanian who was once Ilie Nastase's doubles partner but is now a successful solo act: a billionaire with a portfolio in which tennis plays an increasingly minor role.

At first, as Tory leader – influenced by his adviser Steve Hilton, who believed that in the digital era the views of newspapers were of increasingly minor relevance – Cameron decided that rather than "sucking up to Murdoch", as one of his aides put it, it was better to "keep your distance" from the tabloids, and to focus instead on television appearances.

For me, Office represents an increasingly minor amount of screen time in my computing experience, while social computing is transitioning much of that work to stream-based objects.

The findings also reveal that motorways/freeways are the most cognitively compatible road type and that incompatibilities grow rapidly as road types become increasingly minor and less overtly 'designed'designed

And where the private automobile has an increasingly minor role.

What sets Philadelphia apart from other cities, say the police, politicians and academic experts, is the combination of high poverty — with 25percentt of the population living below the poverty line, the city has the highest rate among the 10 biggest cities, according to census data — a youth culture that increasingly settles minor disputes through violence and the easy availability of guns.

To obtain a guideline for marker filtering, the latter RAD-based study evaluated the strength of the correlation in FST values between 'sister' RAD sites (i.e., DNA sequences flanking the same restriction site in the genome) in relation to increasingly stringent minor allele frequency thresholds (see Appendix S2 in the Supporting information to [ 45]).

Other workshop participants took on the prevalence of arms - increasingly among minors - as well as financial corruption within government ranks, the proliferation of illegal medical centers, negligence in hospitals, the sale of expired medication, torture in Yemeni prisons, and questionable construction standards, to name a few issues.

It is speculated that PTI and ETI play an increasingly major and a minor role, respectively, in conferring nonhost resistance as the evolutionary distance between the nonhost and the nonhost pathogen species widens [ 18].

Conversely, ETI and PTI play an increasingly major and a minor role, respectively, in expression of nonhost resistance as the evolutionary distance between the nonhost and nonhost pathogens reduces.