Sentence examples for plays a defining role from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Moreover, the surface chemistry of the nanomaterial also plays a defining role, wherein it can be adjusted to selectively bind biomolecules found on the cell membrane, in specific normal/diseased tissues, or in bodily fluids (e.g. blood, interstitial fluids, etc).

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

Semantically, the "that" clause bears a restricting relation with the subject and plays a defining role.

These trends prevailed for fibronectin-coated surfaces as well suggesting that for human corneal epithelial cells, the physical environment plays a defining role in guiding cell behavior.

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

Now imagine a narco movie told as an epic about two families over a generation, in which indigenous tradition is ruthlessly shaped by outside forces and in which women play a defining role.

It will be interesting to study the effects of SIRT1 in still other biological systems in which MSCs play a defining role.

The distribution of roles is done by the director (head of department) and the actors are paid for playing a defined role by a defined script.

We were initially intrigued by this finding, since Esat6 is not known to play a defined role during the in vitro growth of mycobacteria [35].