Sentence examples for served to accelerate from inspiring English sources

All told, the incidents served to accelerate opposition to Healy.

He said it "has grown rapidly since broadband became mainstream and the economic downturn, which started in 2008, has served to accelerate that pace of change".

The court's controversial decision, which determined that any invention is unpatentable if it necessitates the destruction of a human embryo, regardless of when that took place, has served to accelerate the search for these new methods.

He is still without the club's record signing, Andy Carroll, as well as the injured Ricardo Vaz Tê up front, which has served to accelerate the move for Traoré.

City's excellence has served to accelerate Liverpool's improvement, persuading Fenway Sports Group to make Alisson Becker (briefly) the world's most expensive goalkeeper, and to turn van Dijk into the costliest defender in history.

Economic liberalization measures, including industrial deregulation, privatization of state-owned enterprises, and reduced controls on foreign trade and investment, began in the early 1990s and served to accelerate the country's growth, which averaged under 7% per year from 1997 to 2011.

Ebola should serve to accelerate this change".

A collapse of the eurozone, if it occurs, could certainly serve to accelerate this process.

But it could also serve to accelerate the Iranian nuclear program out of Tehran's fear of Sunni encirclement.

All of this would only serve to accelerate the decline of the US and the rise of China.

First, the sequences would be of value to the research community, serving to accelerate efforts to understand gene function by using model systems.