Sentence examples for plays a substantial part from inspiring English sources

His team eventually hopes to pair more detailed estimates of how much carbon the algae sucks up with satellite data estimating its distribution, thus seeing if it plays a substantial part in the cycling of carbon dioxide.

Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, and author of Pornland, Gail Dines, holds the view that the very foundations of porn are based in inequality, and that cultural appropriation plays a substantial part in this.

Thus, a technical error, corresponding either to an underestimate of the net quantity of acid excreted, or to an overestimate of the net acid production, has perpetuated the incorrect concept that bone mineral plays a substantial part in acid base balance in patients suffering from chronic renal acidosis.

He also played a substantial part in the appointment of his successor as chairman, Hugo Young.

American credibility in Asia has played a substantial part in the rapid but peaceful rise of China, a power shift of a kind that has seldom, if ever, occurred in world history without major conflict.

He anticipated a recurrence of war between Japan and Russia and prepared a contingency plan for war with the United States and Russia, which eventually played a substantial part in the entry of Japan into World War II.

Mario Monti, Italy's former technocrat prime minister, lost the election earlier this year for many reasons but his much-loathed decision to raise a tax on property played a substantial part.

It is an impulse, she might have added, that lies at the heart of fashion itself, giving rise, for instance, to the do-it-yourself movement, in which gashed garments play a substantial part.

They plan to find Scooter's long-missing father and return to him a rare signed edition of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," the themes of which (including friendship) play a substantial part in her novel.

Virginia's very close election was probably the most surprising Senate result on Election Day, but the bias against the Republican candidate in the registered voter polls did not play a substantial part in underestimating Republican support.

It is an event in which Australia has played, and will continue to play, a substantial part.... Namibia is a large, arid, sparsely populated and underdeveloped country which has been a war zone for many years.