In the repulse of Xerxes I it is possible that the Aeginetans played a larger part than is conceded to them by Herodotus.

And a still larger number played in the minor leagues and on amateur teams as well.

Although Douglas was always second billed under Lancaster in these films, their roles were usually more or less the same size with the exceptions of I Walk Alone, in which Douglas played a villain, and in Seven Days in May, where Douglas ' part was larger than Lancaster's but not as dramatic.

The Khmer Rouge and the PRK began a costly struggle that played into the hands of the larger powers China, the United States and the Soviet Union.

Researchers have pointed out that the reproductive strategy of the surviving nautiloids, which rely upon few and larger eggs, played a role in outsurviving their ammonoid counterparts through the extinction event.

Over a hundred other federal and state cavalry regiments were organized, but the infantry played a much larger role in many battles due to its larger numbers, lower cost per rifle fielded, and much easier recruitment.

And they played a larger roll in the diffusion of Euro-Asian Y-Chromosome R1b R-V88 into Africa.

At a time in which football was played seriously only in the larger cities of the Northwest of Italy, most of Verona was indifferent to the growing sport.

In Eastern Europe, a larger descendant of the hammered dulcimer called the cimbalom is played and has been used by a number of classical composers, including Zoltán Kodály, Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez, and more recently, in a different musical context, by Blue Man Group.

Extinction of animals and plants caused by human actions may go as far back as the late Pleistocene, over 12, 000 years BP, but there is no direct evidence for this theory and it is more likely abrupt climate change played a much higher role in the extinction of larger mammals.

Another hypothesis for the thick body hair on humans proposes that Fisherian runaway sexual selection played a role ( as well as in the selection of long head hair ), ( see types of hair and vellus hair ), as well as a much larger role of testosterone in men.

He played Mark Antony and his brother Edwin had the larger role of Brutus in a performance acclaimed as " the greatest theatrical event in New York history ".

Despite its small proportions, Luxembourg often played an intermediary role between larger countries.

They played initially in clubs and ballrooms, then in larger auditoriums as their popularity grew.

Hazmi was initially dismissed as a " muscle hijacker " following the attacks, but was later revealed to have played a larger role in the operational planning than previously believed.

When played as a misère game, Nim strategy is different only when the normal play move would leave no heap of size two or larger.

While the Hurricane was available in larger numbers and consequently played a larger role, the new Spitfire caught the popular imagination and became the aircraft associated with the battle.

Historically, in the far North, meats such as reindeer, and other ( semi -) game dishes were eaten, some of which have their roots in the Sami culture, while fresh vegetables have played a larger role in the South.

The Swans play most home games at the Sydney Cricket Ground, while local derbies and larger games against teams such as are played at ANZ Stadium.

* Another variation on tic-tac-toe is played on a larger grid ( say 10x10 ) where the object is to get 5 in a row.

As Brown and Squire began collaborating more closely on songwriting, they decided that they should take a larger slice of the money than the other band members ; Couzens and Wren left the band in protest, although they soon returned, and Couzens played an ill-fated gig with the band at the end of May before being pushed out of the band by Evans after flying home alone while the rest of the band returned in their van.

Baroque played on a somewhat larger board that is mostly rectangular but for a couple extra squares that are outside the board, located at D0 and E0 just behind the King and Queen's squares.

During ceremonies for larger schools this piece is played repeatedly.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.

To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.

It was here that the terror-stricken Dennis Moon played an unrehearsed role during the children's party.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

And the authors give numerous instances of calculated guessing on the patient's part to show how large a role it played in his process of readapting himself and how proficient he became at it.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.

Greek Christian scribes played a crucial role in the preservation of Aristotle by copying all the extant Greek language manuscripts of the corpus.

In order to prepare the role of an important old actress, a theatre student interviews three actresses who were her pupils: an international diva ( Glòria Marc, played by Núria Espert ), a television star ( Assumpta Roca, played by Rosa Maria Sardà ) and a dubbing director ( Maria Caminal, played by Anna Lizaran ).

Transatlantic travel played a major role in the expansion of Western civilization into the Americas.

As of 2007, economic relations played " a fundamental role in the bilateral relations between the two governments ".

In the past and present, amateur astronomers have played a major role in discovering new comets.

Joan Hickson played the lead role.

Astronomy certainly played an important role in Chaco culture, as it is visible in the north-south axis alignment of many ceremonial structures.

Azerbaijan is an economy that has completed its post-Soviet transition into a major oil based economy ( with the completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline ), from one where the state played the major role.

In the early 1990s, the latter group blamed Armenia's economic woes on the role played by the former in closing major industries.

The formal study of architecture in academic institutions played a pivotal role in the development of the profession as a whole, serving as a focal point for advances in architectural technology and theory.

The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

The river played an important role in the growth of the economy in the region during the 19th century as a source of transportation of goods.

Aachen was the administrative centre for the coal-mining industries in neighbouring places to the northeast ; it never played any role in brown coal mining, however, neither in administrative or industrial terms.

But now the evidence of Tell Leilan, and recent findings of elevated dust deposits in sea-cores collected off Oman, that date to the period of Akkad's collapse suggest that this climate change may have played a role.