Sentence examples for major and perhaps from inspiring English sources

Improvements in the breeding of war-horses played a major and perhaps dominant role.

"Nuclear power – being far the most compact and energy-dense of sources – could also make a major, and perhaps leading, contribution ….

So far this election season, the Tea Party has brought a huge amount of unexpected energy into the campaign, and it could drive sufficient Republican turnout to become a major and perhaps decisive factor in many races.

"If they discuss their choice of major with anyone it is with an academic adviser – someone who will focus on course requirements for the major and perhaps probe the student's academic interest in the subject but will not likely bring up potential career consequences," wrote Edwin W. Koc, the director of strategic and foundation research for the association, in an e-mail to me.

Charles said: "A consequence of this conclusion of the supreme court is that it has, in a time of austerity, imposed major and perhaps unforeseen difficulties and burdens on those responsible for providing, authorising and monitoring the placement and care of a wide range of vulnerable people".

And yet, sixty years after Brown, the prevailing idea in these debates remains one that is similar to the argument presented in Plessy: that the major, and perhaps the only, problem with ongoing segregation is the way black people perceive and respond to it.

The Treasury would also become a major shareholder, and perhaps even the controlling shareholder, in some financial institutions.

Marc Sageman, a former Central Intelligence Agency operations officer and Qaeda scholar, said the relationship between these celebrity imams and younger men like Major Hasan and perhaps Mr. Abdulmutallab was a two-way street.

Government forecasters say this hurricane season — which began June 1 and extends through the end of November — could be a destructive one, with as many as seven major hurricanes and perhaps two dozen storms in all.

American, European and United Nations diplomats all said that the Brahimi plan would probably give the United Nations a major role, and perhaps the leading role, in superintending the process of building democracy in Iraq.

"An abomination," he wrote, in a tone not unlike a certain effusive left-hander, the winner of seven major championships and perhaps the most stubbornly opinionated athlete of his time.