Sentence examples for minor function from inspiring English sources

It's not a minor function of culture, in straitened times or flush ones.

In other cases, an organ that served a major and minor function was modified to serve the latter at the expense of the former.

Other than this conflict, in his years as a deputy (1635 46), Jeremi wasn't involved in any major political issues, and only twice (in 1640 and 1642) he served in the minor function of a commissar for investigating the eastern and southern border disputes.

It is not sufficiently explored whether the regulation of APC is a major or minor function of miR-142.

The differences in age of onset depended on the age of affected relatives, whereas the type of proband (mother or sister) seemed to have a minor function.

Note that the species-typical category is by no means dominated by attention getters, although we found that attracting attention was a minor function for several gestures.

Hill was running the state Department of Education until last week, when Mead signed legislation stripping her of the post and relegating her to more minor functions.

Moore explained on his blog that the number 33 had no hidden meaning or significance, only that he felt it sufficiently long to allow minor functions like snacking, showering, or cat napping, but was too short to allow anybody to gain any meaningful sleep and recharge their batteries.

Further functional analysis for factor V, VIII, XIII activator assays, protein C activator assay and capillary permeability assay need to be performed to completely characterise potential minor functions of this enzyme.

If the minor functions of the protogenes increase the fitness of an organism, then the protogenes would have a greater chance of being retained due to natural selection.

Although Tel1p associates with DSBs (Nakada et al. 2003; Shima et al. 2005), it has only minor functions in DNA repair.