Sentence examples for played a defining from inspiring English sources

But their essential ideological character played a defining part in how the history of the 20th century was written.

After all that involvement and spending, the Yankees played a defining Game 7 last night, and there was nothing Steinbrenner could do about it but watch his team win.

Constantine's reign of 43 years, exceeded in Scotland only by that of King William the Lion before the Union of the Crowns in 1603, is believed to have played a defining part in the gaelicisation of Pictland, in which his patronage of the Irish Céli Dé monastic reformers was a significant factor.

An experiment in 1984 in Minneapolis played a defining role in reshaping the police approach.

Gaddafi played a defining role in the rebuilding of the modern Libyan nation.

Among them were leading scientists who played a defining role in the emergence of American atomic discovery and the computer age.

A lot depends on how your genes are expressed and this is where the environment can play a defining role.

Yesterday's winner, the Dutchman Michael Boogerd, offered a timely reminder of the power superstitions and lucky charms have always played in a sport in which, more than most others, sheer bad luck plays a defining role.

The event has been rejigged so that the points race, his weakest suit, now plays a defining role; it is far longer and every point scored is an omnium point.

It's people like Turck and firms such as MarkCapital that will play a defining part in how this new data economy unfolds in New York and the rest of the world.

In systems biology, the cyclic interaction between 'wet-lab' experiments and 'dry-lab' modeling plays a defining role.