Sentence examples for played a negative role from inspiring English sources

In Syria as in Egypt, religion has played a negative role in domestic conflicts.

"We are still analysing the reasons, but it couldn't be more obvious that the lack of exercise played a negative role," Tian Ye, director of the China Institute of Sports Science, told the China Daily newspaper.

Data from the Levada Center, a Moscow-based polling agency, showed that in 2012 only 22 percent of Russians said Stalin played a "negative role" in the country's development, down from 60 percent in 1998.

The former Palestinian minister Ghassan Khatib said: "in all his history, [Mr Sharon] played a negative role", while a senior official in the Fatah movement, Jibril Rajoub, condemned him as a leader whom Palestinians had wanted to see tried as a war criminal.

The present study determined that β-glucosidase played a negative role in bioflocculant synthesis.

In other words, Bgl.bli1 played a negative role in the flocculating activity.

It is true that the regional and international balance of power continues to play a negative role in ending the suffering of the Syrian people.

Recent opinion polls suggest that three-quarters of Iraqis think America plays a "negative role" in their country; most want American troops to go.

"This move will galvanize Arab and Western attention, and put pressure on Syria by suggesting that it is playing a negative role," said Paul Salem, the director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut.

However, friendships might also play a negative role for an individual's well-being.

Meanwhile, it was announced that SPPs play a negative role in p = 0 transmission [81].