Sentence examples for substantial player from inspiring English sources

Now they seem to be a substantial player".

His spokesman declared that Sanea was now "a substantial player" in world financial markets.

Howard Koch died five years ago, so with Epstein's death, the last substantial player in the story of the film has passed.

"French pride is not at all trivial in the matter of consolidation, particularly when you consider that, without a deal, the French may lose a substantial player in the global drug market," said Catherine Arnold, an analyst with Bernstein Research.

The saxophonist Wess, among the last of the major stylists to came of age during the late flowering of the big-band era, is a graceful and substantial player.

"He has gotten himself into a place to be a substantial player in the Senate, in the Democratic party, and therefore I can't imagine he would allow himself to be drafted now," said Thomas E. Mann, a senior fellow in American governance at the Brookings Institution.

And they are becoming substantial players.

"Engineers have become much more substantial players," said Terence Riley, chief curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art.

The result is that smaller agencies like Endeavor and Broder-Kurland-Webb-Uffner are substantial players in the Hollywood arena, alongside the bigger ones.

But Alan Yentob and Mark Thompson have also recruited two very substantial players, ex-Granada drama controller Simon Lewis and his deputy Sue Hogg, to make popular drama series for BBC1, fresh from creating the ITV series Grafters and Always & Everyone.

The out-of-pocket expenses, however, are substantial; players train and practice five hours a day for 41 weeks, receive high-performance coaching and travel, and compete in 24 events.