Sentence examples for more significant player from inspiring English sources

They actually said that they were keen on Co-op becoming a much more significant player with more scale.

If the company's expensive gamble pays off, Nvidia could break out of its graphics niche and become a far more significant player in the computing landscape.

"A combination would create a more significant player on the European landscape," said Se-Ting Tan of J. P. Morgan Securities.

If the country maintains its stable economy it will prove an even more significant player in the Association of South-east asian Nations (Asean), a 10-nation regional bloc with a total population of 600 million and a $2tn economy.

In a move that is almost certain to rattle the Conde Nast magazine group and help establish another magazine company as a more significant player, David Carey, the president and publisher of The New Yorker, is expected to announce his resignation from Conde Nast today.

"We're a much more significant player in the media landscape than we've been for a whole host of reasons," Commissioner Gary Bettman said, citing rising revenues, growth in digital media and interest generated by HBO's "24/7" series about the run-up to the Jan . 1Winter Classic between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals.

Although the Greeks, at Marathon and Salamis, succeeded in staving off direct absorption into an Asiatic empire, the conquests of Alexander ensured that cities in Egypt and Syria would end up much more significant players in Hellenistic power politics than Athens or Sparta.

Despite the slump in their poll ratings they are likely to be much more significant players in the next Parliament than the new kids on the political block - UKIP and the Greens.

"At the moment I think it's more geopolitical, they want to broaden their (influence in the) region and become a more significant player..

Cruz has been flirting with Jose Cruz Jr. for second place for some time, but with 11 runs batted in in this series, there is no question that he is the more historically significant player.

"Our proposal is more significant than the players' initial proposal," Bettman said, pointing out that the league's new six-year offer represented a revision of $460 million from its first offer.