Sentence examples for this played a role from inspiring English sources

Inventory adjustments as products mature and markets settle — this played a role in this past quarter's weakish iPad sales, for example.

This played a role in the "higher incidence of subprime lending in the minority community," he said.

An earlier report by the Australian Energy Marker Operator found that nine of 13 windfarms switched off during severe storms and this played a role in the shutdown.

Certainly this played a role, but it also seems insufficient to explain the big decline in private hiring from April to May.

Voters quite rationally do not want to waste their votes, and there is some evidence that this played a role in Mr. Santorum's late surge in Iowa.

We contended that in schizophrenic patients there was an abnormal production of adrenochrome, a derivative of adrenaline, and that this played a role in the genesis of the condition.

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All this plays a role in the current practice of tolerance in Oman.

Further, this plays a role in controlling diversity of plant metabolism.

We found no evidence to suggest that this plays a role in humans.

Whether this plays a role in human diabetes or in animal models of diabetic complications, requires further studies.