Sentence examples for play substantive from inspiring English sources

Combined, this is the first scientific evidence of a cross-ecosystem interaction between Pacific herring and American black bears, two relatively conspicuous species that play substantive roles in coastal ecosystems but which have not been previously linked.

"Eddie senior didn't play a substantive role in any of this," Costa said.

The encounter felt as much performative, a necessary part of the play, as substantive.

It is turning to NATO to expand the alliance's mandate in Afghanistan and play a substantive role in Iraq.

Those who have met with Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi since her release from house arrest in late 2010 say she appears driven to play a substantive role in the country's political future.

"He is a great team player, and he understands what is going on out there," said Mr. Boehner, who praised Mr. Sessions as bringing in more Republican lawmakers to play a substantive role in the campaign operation.

In doing so, both reactive and predictive homeostasis play a substantive role in the engineering of such mechanisms.

Week after week, news outlets carry word of new scientific discoveries, but the media sometimes give suspect science equal play with substantive discoveries.

However, in this literature, values and beliefs are typically presented in the context of mission statements or company slogans that can play little substantive role in shaping actions and behaviors.

The other forms of equality in play in substantive disputes about law and policy are ones about which people can have reasonable disagreements (within limits specified by the principle of public equality).

If, as many experts say, disrupting the cycle of hunger and poverty, for example, takes a two generational approach... shouldn't Generation Z and Millennials play a substantive part so that two doesn't become three?