Sentence examples for minor role at from inspiring English sources

The team captain was Maria Teresa Lavazza, who played a minor role at the table and also earns the world title.

"Much of the literature concludes that hereditary factors play a minor role at best in the determination of creativity," University of Minnesota psychologist Niels Waller wrote in Psychological Inquiry.

A string of disputes with Mr. Marinan and frustrations over his minor role at City Hall led the young councilman to decide he would not run for re-election.

Thomas Bjorn Ryder Cup appearances: 2 Wins: 2 (1997, 2002) A chequered career in the Ryder Cup started with a minor role at Valderrama in 1997 before a fruitful partnership with Clarke in 2002.

Results indicated that the relationship between species richness, reflectance and spectral contrast was strong and scale-dependent (1 m2: adjusted R2 = 0.50; 25 m2: adj. R2 = 0.65; 100 m2: adj. R2 = 0.79), whereas NDVI played a minor role at all scales.

Whereas the effectiveness of the EAA copolymers studied earlier had been shown to increase with an increase in the concentration of the carboxyl groups, the concentration of the succinic anhydride groups of the PE-g-MA CPs studied in this work was found to play a minor role, at least in the investigated range (0.3 3.0 wt% MA).

He had played only a minor role, as a soldier at the end of his teens.

As a result, noroviruses were out of sight and mind and thus relegated to a minor role as agents of gastroenteritis at a time when high-profile outbreaks of Salmonella Enteritidis (2) and Escherichia coli (3) had focused attention and budgets on preventing foodborne bacterial illnesses.

She didn't win and she spoke little English, but she got a movie contract with Universal, and though she took little interest in the dramatic coaching they offered, she found herself in demand for minor roles at other studios, for pin-up photographs to adorn lads mags and subsequently to appear on TV shows (Ed Murrow's Person to Person among them).

Actors who "make it" typically work relentlessly to find roles, get told "no" over and over again, get very minor roles at best, and yet remain optimistic.

Our data suggests that ATM1 is more crucial for the motility of ARA6 containing endosomes and plays only a minor role, if at all, in the function of FYVE/ARA7 containing endosomes.