Sentence examples for to be a significant force from inspiring English sources

His own leadership may face a challenge if the Lib Dems do not gain enough MPs to be a significant force after the election.

The political bloc has the ability to be a significant force in British politics after the election and it is likely to be supplemented by a further tranche of MPs in any dissolution honours list.

Following a composer residency at the University of Western Australia in Perth, he took up a permanent post there, and went on to be a significant force in Australian musical life for four decades.

American desire for Britain to be a significant force in Europe springs from the justifiable belief that, around the European table, the UK most accurately represents its attitudes on those issues that are important to the US.

That religious following was large enough to be a significant force in secular politics.

"I had expected that the unions would be a significant force".

At the same time conspiracy theories about a wide range of events from 9/11 to the moon landings remain widespread, and climate change denial continues to be a significant political force.

UKIP is still on course to be a significant political force in the 2015 general election despite the furore over Godfrey Bloom's comments about women, Nigel Farage has said.

Gene conversion has proven to be a significant evolutionary force in organelle systems (Khakhlova and Bock 2006; Hao et al. 2010) and is believed to play a part in organelle DNA maintenance, including the repair of double-stranded breaks (Maréchal and Brisson 2010).

That history, combined with what appeared to be a significant retreat by forces loyal to the interim Transitional National Council, sparked fears of a new pro-Qaddafi element that was both armed and organized.

To ascertain whether drift is a significant force influencing allele frequency changes within the artificially selected US Angus breed, we estimated the inbreeding effective population size, under the neutral model, and modelled the effects of drift on neutral loci.