Sentence examples for peripheral actors from inspiring English sources

The nature of both metropolis and peripheral actors can also differ.

Some peripheral actors are given access to the decision making and resources of the metropolis or sovereign authority, whereas others are kept at a distance or even subject to open discrimination and exploitation.

MacMillan, a professor of history at the University of Toronto, is particularly good at describing and characterizing individuals, not only leading figures like Woodrow Wilson, David Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau, but also peripheral actors like Queen Marie of Romania and a string of hapless supplicants from Beijing to Budapest.

Centralization thus captures the tendency of a network to have few (in the extreme case: one) very central and many peripheral actors ([4], pp. 177).

In Vietnam and the Solomon Islands, peripheral actors helped to facilitate the creation of national mental health policy [ 58, 59].

The agenda is set by an interaction of central and peripheral actors, and the policy planning occurs at close collaboration between the center and the periphery.

Another useful example of a peripheral actor supporting the development of information infrastructure is WHO's Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response program [ 40].

For the central actor of a start, C B ' n i will take its highest value of 1; however, for any peripheral actor of a star C B ' n i will take its minimum value of 0. A centralisation measure quantifies the range or variability of individual actor indices.

"That case is peripheral," said the British actor, who is best known for her role as Selene, the gun-toting vampire in the Underworld series of films.

Race and representation is a complex area that manifests in different form in America from that in the UK, although in both cases it's common to assign peripheral roles to non-white actors.

Admittedly, in the programs presented, the attention focuses on actors at the peripheral level, nurses and health-system professionals, who are in daily contact with the health care demand and offer.