Sentence examples for mere role from inspiring English sources

We suggest that instruction as such does not suffice to enhance perception of control, and that learners' perceptions play a mere role in the effectiveness of instructional strategies such as learner control.

Besides its mere role as a barrier between blood and tissue, the endothelial cell layer displays a myriad of physiological functions.

These findings reject a mere role of the MVB pathway for vacuolar sorting of hydrolases, and instead support the idea that selective membrane protein degradation significantly contributes to maintaining cell homeostasis during starvation.

The 2012 agreement involved a shift in the improvement coach role, from supporting the mere use of registries towards facilitating improvement efforts based on registries and indicators.

In the CPC's project, Transneft has a mere supporting role, of providing maintenance services.

The jazz had little breathing room and no vitality under these circumstances; the orchestra, when reduced to a mere backing role, had no grandeur.

Jude, once a saintly child, has matured into a likably messy gay teen-ager, far better than any mere empowering role model.

In "The Science of Liberty," the veteran science writer Timothy Ferris makes a more extravagant claim, assigning not a mere supporting role but top billing to the celebrated experimenters and inventors of the past several centuries.

But a mere cameo role with a few lines would have been a miserly way for Kiri Te Kanawa, now 65, to make what may be her farewell to the house, where she has not sung in an opera since 1998.

That is why, we posit, the social sciences and humanities are so often viewed as playing a mere ancillary role (Felt 2014).

For instance, hand-arm movements, that often accompany speech, do not play a mere communicative role but facilitate the maintenance of spatial representations in working memory (Wesp et alia 2001) and recalling enacted action-phrases is significantly easier with respect to purely verbal encoding (see Engelkamp, 1998 for a review).