Sentence examples for instrumental in explaining from inspiring English sources

This theory was instrumental in explaining the structure of many igneous rock formations.

The concept of a 'fear network', i.e. an interconnected set of neural representations has been instrumental in explaining symptoms and their maintenance in anxiety disorders.

The results show that changes in living arrangements are not instrumental in explaining aggregate trends in entry into parenthood for all countries.

These chemical species typically undergo reactions with high activation energies and their chemical-induction and flow-residence times are instrumental in explaining the existence of a dark-zone temperature plateau.

However, Bourdieu's [4] concept of cultural capital is instrumental in explaining why capacity building is required and what form it should take.

We quantify the cultural differences between English and Indian families and show that they are instrumental in explaining the divergence in their average probabilities of male births.

Applying Generalised Methods of Moments (GMM) on a set of panel data, our empirical evidence shows that legal-families play an instrumental role in explaining FDI activities.

Also in the past, grandmothers - or other non-sexual female elders - played an instrumental role in explaining menstruation and discussing menstrual management and reproductive health with young girls.

Both tests describe how good (strong) the instrumental variables are in explaining opportunity entrepreneurship.

Richard Boyd (1985, for example) argues that in explaining the success of science, we need to explain the overall instrumental success of scientific methods across the history of science.

He has also been instrumental in studying and explaining one weather phenomenon that has helped define the ocean's role as a major factor in global climate: El Niño.