Sentence examples for upon its role from inspiring English sources

Although a fishing port, it is economically dependent upon its role as a transportation hub.

The subsequent growth of Venice was attendant upon its role in the commercial life of Italy and upon exploitation of its inherent physical and aesthetic attributes.

For much of its history, the development of Kingston, Jamaica was predicated upon its role as a point of articulation and trade between the metropolitan centre and the colonial periphery.

In an initial discussion of diffusion, this particular article emphasises its prominence as an explanatory factor of far party development and reflects in more detail upon its role, extent and scope.

In order to be clear about the content of a concept or hypothesis, we must reflect upon its role in determining what we should do in the light of our desires and our background knowledge.

Similarly, the German city of Bremen has perceived ethnic minority businesses as having the potential to revive the city's post-industrial economy by developing foreign trade and new markets, and building upon its role as an international port and foreign trade centre.

This book takes a broad and eclectic view of the water that all humanity depends upon, probing its role in human life and in the history of our planet, as well as surveying the latest scientific understanding of purification techniques and standards for the protection of water quality.

Although it may be considered as a simple polypyrimidine tract, it is the only conserved tract in the whole segment, and this conserved feature makes it is tempting to speculate upon its possible role.

Put another way, in shaping its security dimensions, the European Union is called upon to define its role within the new European security architecture.

The pair did, however, hold back from the kind of hyperbole heaped upon Twitter for its role in last year's Iranian election protests, saying that no one had intimated that 'the revolution will be tweeted'.

Raffinose drastically decreased in content upon imbibition validating its role as transient C storage molecule as suggested earlier [ 37, 38].