Sentence examples for lay greater from inspiring English sources

Behind those Iranians, too, lay greater forces, all Iran's centennial and unquenchable quest for some stable balance between representative government and religious faith.

While this might be a lament common to Frenchmen of Mr. Cardin's age and class, he can lay greater claim to it than most.

Sure Start survives, as promised, but loses its original goal of bringing well-off and poorer children and families together, in order to focus services on the needier, and also shifts its mission to lay greater emphasis on the provision of an extra 4,200 health visitors (as the Conservatives promised last year).

Nowadays, scientists lay greater emphasis on bio-prospecting of new materials from biological resources.

High LG mothers were defined as dams that displayed a frequency of pup LG that was 1SD greater than that for the mean of the cohort; Low LG mothers were defined as dams for which the pup LG scores lay greater than 1SD below than of the cohort mean.

For each maximum transcript the largest ORF was defined and tested to determine whether the stop codon lay greater than 50 nucleotides upstream of an exon-exon junction.

Around him lay great mounds of plastic bags, smothered in tape and scrawled with phone numbers.

The prime minister, David Cameron, lay great stress on gangs being behind the riots.

Greig and Tiffany, however, lay great stress on the story's sexual quality.

Deep in the mineral substrata lay great bodies of water, cold and pure, unseen, locked in silence.

Pullman said that telling the story was everything, but that behind the story lay great moral questions.