Sentence examples for obscure role from inspiring English sources
Mr. Sinclair believes that resveratrol works by activating a gene called SIRT-1, which many biologists think plays a fundamental, if still obscure, role in regulating life span in mammals.
In an increasingly nasty primary in which each candidate has blamed the other for the nastiness, the usually obscure role of telephone canvassing and polling has unexpectedly become a central issue as hundreds of thousands of calls pour down on voters in South Carolina.
After Gullit catapulted him from an obscure role working with the club's youth players to coaching Newcastle's first team back in 1998, Robson made him his No2 and Shepherd, the club's former chairman, recently said he made "a big mistake" in appointing Graeme Souness rather than Carver as manager after Robson's sacking in 2004.
In view of the obscure role of serum leptin in CVH we were interested in its role in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) and CHC infection.
The game designer Gary Gygax, in a foreword to a 2004 edition of the book, credits "Little Wars" with influencing his own set of rules for medieval-period miniature wars, Chainmail — which in turn became the basis of a slightly less obscure role-playing game: Dungeons & Dragons.
This intellectually curious artist has added another to the list of demanding, obscure roles she has learned but will probably not get many chances to sing.
In interviews Ms. Meade has said that she eagerly accepts invitations to learn obscure roles if the music is interesting, even for a single performance.
Hypothetical proteins, on the other hand, could represent genes that were specific to the TPEs' former independent life, but which are uncharacterized given their obscure roles or limited taxonomic distribution, and that are now superfluous for their symbiotic intracellular life style.
This result reinforces the idea that rather than performing some obscure function, the role of auxilin in Notch signaling cells is to regulate clathrin dynamics.
Household surveys often obscure the role of women in family and economic life.
But that very centrality makes obscure the role of religious faith as such in the struggle for racial justice.
