Sentence examples for minor often from inspiring English sources

In true repertory spirit, a minor, often throwaway role is made major by Ms. Williamson.

Jan Derksen, a product manager in Stockholm at Ericsson, the largest maker of wireless network equipment, said most operators would adopt HD audio as the new standard because the costs to them were minor, often involving software upgrades.

But as a seventysomething singer who worked with Count Basie for two years in the 1960's and who has had numerous (mostly minor, often comedic) movie and television roles, he has the stuff of which legends are made.

She was at her best in the more tumultuous études, including No. 12 ("Revolutionary"), with its punishing runs for the left hand, and No. 23 in A minor (often called "Winter Wind"), with its cascading right-hand passagework and stern theme in left-hand chords.

While there is ample scope for age to be an important determinant of time allocation even when minimum age regulations are completely unenforced, age appears to have a minor, often negligible, influence on time allocation.

While many normative commitments may appear trifling at first sight, those who adopt a strict Foucaldian line will remind us that normativities, however minor, often presume access to a trans-historical, evaluative position or figure (such as the figure of 'man' – see Foucault, 1985[1966]).

But Posada spent six full years in the minors, often making his father wonder if he would have been better off with another organization.

A1 Minors in the Porn Market Aided by advances in technology, minors, often under the online tutelage of adults, are opening pornography sites featuring their own images sent onto the Internet by inexpensive Webcams.

A large proportion of these people are minors, often unaccompanied, who are fleeing compulsory and indefinite military service.

In addition to further backlogging the system, these minors often have no legal representation because immigration is a civil issue, not a criminal issue.

The agents often ensure ties are cut between girls as young as 10 and their families in rural villages, their isolation made worse because the minors often speak no Hindi, fear the police and are penniless, leaving them with little way out of their plight.