How To Use Contribution In A Sentence

Fertilization therefore results in an egg carrying a nucleus with contributions from both parents, and it was concluded that the cell nucleus must contain the physical basis of heredity.
He made a very positive contribution to the overall success of the project.
He said this was an abuse of public monies and the fact there was no contribution from the business community was ‘grossly unfair.’
First, from 2004 to the present, steric contributions to sea level rise appear to have been negligible. Anthropogenic Climate Change In Serious Doubt « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
The pilots benefited from a great deal of on-the-job training, but the squadron's main contribution to the campaign entailed carrying dispatches and mail.

In each case the company's contributions are deductible for tax, and income on the investments is free of tax. Principles of Corporate Finance
One consequence of epidemiological research into the contribution of lifestyle factors to cancer risk has been to blame the individual who develops cancer.
The services of the laboratory are offered gratuitously to any scientist or graduate student engaged in research which makes a significant contribution to progress in the fields of science.
Numerous small contributions soon bulk up into a considerable sum.
This multiplication of coverage is cunningly designed to bamboozle the party media minders who sit in party headquarters with stop watches timing their contributions to ensure balance.
Making all pupils feel they are valued and have a contribution to make to the school community is vital in helping children become responsible adults.
We can well afford to let them stare and smile, well knowing that if a similar amount of prosperity permitted the people of other countries to travel for their pleasure in similar numbers, the result would be at the very least an equally -- shall I say undrawing-room-like contribution to cosmopolitan society? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
Paul Tillich is a great thinker who made great contributions in both philosophy and theology.
A leading rocket scientist, Nair's contribution to the development of multistage satellite launch vehicles is immense.
Its name commemorates Voli Voli Cave (one of the discovery sites) and Atholl Anderson, well known for his many contributions to the prehistory and palaeoecology of south-west Pacific islands. The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific
I was disappointed to see very few (if any) contributions to the patients' issue from doctors who currently face patients in an emergency, at unsocial hours, in dismal surroundings.
We shall also be receiving ￡11 million from as their contribution towards putting their organic chemicals business into a joint venture with.
It also questioned the fairness of two-tier charging structures in some schemes in which members ceasing to make new contributions were charged higher fees than active members. Times, Sunday Times
He was neither a wit nor a brilliant raconteur, neither well-read nor well-educated, and he made no great contribution to enlightened social converse.
This invention made a major contribution to road safety.
Otherwise you'll just have to pump as much as you can into the scheme through voluntary contributions, although scope here is limited as you are restricted to a maximum of 15% of your annual salary.
However, Ulam did make a fundamental contribution in proposing the antipodal map theorem.
Collectively, the papers make a significant contribution to our understanding of science and cognition.
We also decided to get our tattered, old couch reupholstered, and I doubled our annual contribution to a local conservation group.
Few astronomers have made so many important contributions to so many different fields in astronomy.
Fr. Michael McManus delivered a lovely homily, reflecting on various aspects of Michael's life and his contribution to the life of the parish.
The ratings system can never be a fair and accurate measurement of a player's contribution to a game.
Industrial chemistry was first recognized in 1931 (Bergius, Bosch), but many more recent prizes for basic contributions lie close to industrial applications, for example, those in polymer chemistry. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
Despite his major contribution to medical science, he died reviled, his name soon forgotten.
The contribution of this fine tribal artist to the plush art galleries of cosmopolitan cities was remembered.
Each year a select few men and women are honored because of their genuinely heroic contributions to the enhancement of cooperative enterprise and to the advancement of the principles of cooperation.
This invention made a major contribution to road safety.
Despite the substantial contributions he had made to topology by this time, Brouwer chose to give his inaugural professorial lecture on intuitionism and formalism.
As well as financial contributions, the group is urging volunteer gardeners to come forward or offer donations of gardening tools and equipment.
Roby got about 70% (appx. $253,000) of her contributions from individual donors, the remainder from the party or PACs Roby Burning Bright in AL-02
The foundation will use the collected money to pay salaries, social contributions and compensations to employees upon the sale.
Sometimes nature's contribution can be of questionable taste. Times, Sunday Times
A first move is to abolish the national insurance ceiling on contribution.
If your modified adjusted gross income exceeded the allowable limits, all or some of your contributions could have been non-deductible.
He praised the sterling work of the Friends of St. Patrick's for their enormous contributions to the betterment of the life of patients and staff at the hospital.
The landlord can also almost certainly forfeit your deposit, but only as a contribution towards the rent. Times, Sunday Times
This could result in his contributions being marginalized or minimalized.
Instead, the governor would require simply that elected officials disclose fully and completely all contributions to their campaigns.
The GOP is out of step with most americans, It is obvious that they want a cheap political win at the expense of the american people, who are paying gads of money to cover thier families health care needs and receiving less and less for thier contributions. Obama rips GOP in health care forum
I do this not to demean the contributions of the Air Force or its airmen.
There are almost four hundred references given in the book's concluding section, which is itself an important contribution.
Surely those orbital electrons in the ferromagnet will make their own contribution to the energy in the air gap, just as the supplied magnetizing current will feed in some energy. Chapter 4
The guidance gives an insight into the respective contribution of staff at ward, unit and health authority level.
During the 1990s, Liverpool's biggest contribution to mainstream rock culture involved dispatching platoons of terrifying feral scallies to mug people at Glastonbury.
We are dropouts from society, useless dregs who make no contribution, so it is inevitable that people will look at us strangely and with contempt.
Ruthin struggled to post 107-9, the biggest single contribution of 16 coming in extras.
Zionist program and pay the annual contribution, known as a shekel, varying from 15 cents to 25 cents in different countries. The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915
Include your name and city and I'll list the information to credit your contribution.
Both loved to be the go-to guy, the man expected to make the crucial contribution to victory. Times, Sunday Times
Hasinger and his colleagues have combined XMM and Infrared Space Observatory measurements of the Lockman Hole, putting a lower limit— 15percent—on the AGN contribution to the infrared background.
The basis on which rights are conferred varies, some depending on residence and others on contribution. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Clarke I hesitate to intervene again, as the hon. Gentleman is getting near to the time left for my contribution.
We like to think that we are making a positive contribution to society.
The following papers are contributions to a symposium on these topics presented at the 1999 meetings of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology.
Experts from both sides of the Atlantic will discuss battlefield tactics, the contribution of Loyalists and Native Americans, the role of officers, and the real reasons why the British forces failed to achieve victory.
(NCKU), has been recognized for his excellent contribution to aquiculture and presented with the award - "2009 TWAS Prize in the Agricultural Sciences" from The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Oct. 20th. FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Empfehlungen
But you can “front-load” five years worth of contributions in one year — $65,000 for a single giver or $130,000 for a couple — without paying the gift tax. Tax savers: Tax-wise gifts to grandkids
Kashmir's contribution to the Indian thought has been of immense artistic, esoteric and aesthetic value.
A large proportion of our researchers are therefore unlikely to make major contributions to the literature of their research area.
Ministers thought the public needed protection against their charitable contributions being used to further political agendas they might not endorse. Times, Sunday Times
Their central midfield was notable more for foraging than contributions in attack.
Devoted specifically to the scholarly, cross-disciplinary study of plagiary and related behaviors across the disciplines, articles in Plagiary address the issue of fraudulent contributions to disciplinary discourse communities and the potential (and actual) corruption of the professional literature and other genres of discourse as a result of such derivative and/or fraudulent "contributions" to discoursal interchange. November 2006
While the article vaunts the fact that men spend nearly 3.5 hours a week more on childcare now than they did in 1985, it glosses over the fact that women's childcare load has also increased - -and says nothing about the minuscule increases in men's contribution to housework and food preparation/cleanup. Joan Williams: Chore Wars and the Value of Work
The Defendant would then pay the incapacitated person that amount, less any pension contribution if he or she was in the pension scheme and less tax and National Insurance.
The nub of the problem with the Government's social coalition is that it invites business to make a token contribution in the context of the Government contributing less than it should.
I would never find a better musician, his contribution to Re:Joyce was unquantifiable.
He made founding contributions to the fields of hydrostatics, static mechanics, and pycnometry (the measurement of the volume or density of an object). Archimedes
If you identify to outstanding contribution to profit, proclaim it at your nest team meeting.
In its defence the Third Party has admitted liability by the defendant but denies any obligation for contribution or indemnity.
Academician of China Engineering Academy , Researcher, PhD Tutor, national expert with outstanding contribution soil engineering expert.
If the deficit has increased then we will have to increase our contribution to the fund as an employer.
It is also possible that upper mantle mafic plumes acted as a heat source for, and made some contribution to, the melting of more felsic rocks in the lower crust.
Sometimes nature's contribution can be of questionable taste. Times, Sunday Times
His remarkable contribution to literature has been too long in eclipse.
In this paper, I will try to show that these contributions fail to articulate an adequate concept of embodied personhood for anthropology because they presuppose impoverished notions of semiosis and language.
The planned rise in employers' national insurance contributions has been partly revoked. Times, Sunday Times
The third main contribution of coins to the study of portraits is to their chronology.
The contribution of her staff over many years was also a vital ingredient in the factor of success.
This allows them to receive tax relief on the contribution and use the lump sum to buy an annuity. Times, Sunday Times
There will be a contribution from forage or dry feed. Times, Sunday Times
He was expected to make a very positive contribution to the 1996 Games organisation.
Jana is an OBE, so I presume she must have made a unique and indispensable contribution to society. Archive 2009-03-01
We shall also be receiving ￡11 million from as their contribution towards putting their organic chemicals business into a joint venture with.
As a master of the short story, Katherine Mansfield's distinctive narrative art is her main contribution to the development of the short story.
These two strands have an approximately equal weight in terms of student workload and contribution to the overall assessment.
Also they saw this as a contribution to the solution of the problem of preadaptation.
When comparable information was presented to each eye, amblyopic eyes made only a minor contribution to binocular performance.
Besides uncertainty over whether lesions should be excised or ablated by a variety of techniques, the contribution of adjunctive presacral neurectomy or uterosacral nerve ablation-transection is unclear.
The reward is points, which are redeemable for cash, electronics, even charitable contributions.
The research aims to investigate the contribution to pupils' understanding and tolerance made by language teaching.
The sense that a candidate is tanking - or on a roll - can make the difference between a potential donor making a contribution or keeping his checkbook in his pocket.
After a few years of operating with these expectations in view, departments would undertake self-assessments of their contributions and submit the results to their various deans.
Contributions to the Anatomy of the Brachiopoda" "Proceedings of the Royal Society" 7 (1854-55) 106-117; 241, 242. The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
The government has promoted the small firm and the enterprise culture as important contributions to workforce flexibility, and the restructuring process.
These relatively conventional works were succeeded by a period of experiment in musical theatre, to which such works as Britten's church parables are a noteworthy contribution.
Your contributions to spectrology embrace methods for the determination of the length of waves in a more exact manner than those hitherto known. Nobel Prize in Physics 1907 - Presentation Speech
His most important mathematical contribution is the application of geometry to optics.
They have brought insights into conditions such as muscular dystrophy and cancer, and their contribution to medicine has been recognised with a Nobel prize. Times, Sunday Times
It appears that the charismatic Parker's first contribution is to hypnotise Zuckerberg, his second to marginalise Saverin, his third to hold out the prospect of big hedge-fund money, and the fourth to suggest shortening the title to "Facebook". The Social Network – review
As a result, teams can fail to leverage the unique contributions each member may bring.
Widespread sympathy for the ambulance workers was reflected in the flow of public contributions of financial support.
The enthusiasm and support of the lesbian fans is vital, but their contribution can not be publicly acknowledged.
His most important contributions were methods of elimination to produce from a set of simultaneous equations, a single resultant equation in one of the unknowns.
But the spectre of kamikaze strikes makes any talk of the potentially positive contribution nuclear energy could make to a balanced and renewable energy supply fraught with difficulty.
From shifting narrative perspective, the way of narration and epiphany. this article proves Katherine Mansfield's remarkable contribution to the forming of modern short novel techniques.
The series includes intriguing rarities, such as "Jean's Return" ("Le retour de Jean"), Clouzot's harrowing contribution to the omnibus film "Return to Life" ("Retour à la vie," 1949), in which a concentration-camp survivor hides, interrogates and tortures a Nazi war criminal. A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery
The duo also made telling contributions to the two second-half tries. Times, Sunday Times
Atheists are people who think for themselves and defenders of reason, and their conviction that God does not exist is making a significant contribution to the development of thinking, rational and open- minded people. Dr T.P.Chia
The irresponsible behaviour of the few can no longer be allowed to tarnish the reputation and the contribution of the many. Times, Sunday Times
Another result of this contribution is a shift of the discussion of economic policy away from isolated policy measures towards the institutional setup of policy making. The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 1969-2006
They have been fed a grass known as Brachiaria as well as experimental hybrids that could dramatically cut agriculture's contribution to global warming. Special Grass for Livestock Could Cut Greenhouse Gases
The contribution of these experienced taste-makers has been evident since deliveries of their cute tweed jackets and pretty camisoles first hit Gap branches last autumn.
Social Security is a diabolically inadequate program: if you die, the ‘contributions’ you've made to the system are forfeited, and your heirs are out of luck.
Clearly food production and consumption have changed vastly since industrialization but the devaluation of women's contribution remains a constant.
Budget it as a contribution of the agency, and specify the amount of money.
Employers have paid 44 billion in contributions in the past three years in an attempt to narrow their yawning deficits, but to little avail. Times, Sunday Times
There will be a contribution from forage or dry feed. Times, Sunday Times
We have then applied reasonable costs to the running of the Centre, but have excluded Directors' emoluments, bank interest charges and pension fund contributions.
This will be achieved by rebating Underwriters' contribution to costs.
Even so, Keegan has been effusive and fulsome in his praise of Pearce's contribution both on and off the field.
On top of rewards including cash bonuses, the firm holds an annual awards ceremony when employees who make an outstanding contribution are recognised. Times, Sunday Times
Most critical studies evaluate Campions place in and contribution to the movement to create English quantitative verse.
Laidlaw also took two fine slip catches, and a skier at mid-wicket, to add to his contribution.
Whatever , it is a contribution to design and implementation of function library of special processor.
We undertake a case concerning major shareholder flight of capital contribution.
Effectively, this would amount to a deduction from the total contribution sought.
Such deposits and share contributions will end on August 30, to allow for remittance of money to input suppliers.
Under the Reagan and Bush administrations, this displeasure took the form of refusing to pay our assessed financial contribution.
The king hearing the pope named, waxed maruellous angrie: for they of Rome began alreadie to demand donations and contributions, more impudentlie than they were hitherto accustomed. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (2 of 12) William Rufus
Communal solicit contribution refers to a special donation conducted for the interest of a specific natural person and realized through the contract between collector and donator.
Licensed Patents" mean patent claims licensable by a Contributor which are necessarily infringed by the use or sale of its Contribution alone or when combined with the Program.
He worked on algebra and graph theory, combining the two to produce his first outstanding contribution to matroid theory.
Or, maybe he's thinking that if he schmoozes the big contractors with lobbying for the ITAR stuff, contractors who have lots-o-bucks for campaign contributions, then he'll be lined up for a cabinet appointment or something if Palin beats Obama next election? Let's Talk ITAR - NASA Watch
For its contributions to the study of the acquisition order the Teachability Hypothesis enriches the SLA theory and is of pedagogical significance as well.
If you identify to outstanding contribution to profit, proclaim it at your nest team meeting. Give identity to the achievement.
Insofar as the two halves are extricable, Tiersen's contribution is more compelling.
We already keep under review financial contributions to the support group, because clearing the arrears to the IFIs is absolutely critical.
One possible source for this high frequency dispersion could be trace amounts of adventitious oxygen or contributions from iron.
Amid the tsunami of indignant emails were a couple of noteworthy contributions.
Although Harriet made a contribution to the purchase price Ian told her that there was a limit to the number of names that could appear on the deeds to the property.
With the surfing season about to commence, it is time to be mindful of the great contribution our volunteer surf lifesavers make to our way of life.
He made a major contribution to peace in the region.
This is very flexible and would allow him to vary contributions or put in lump sums. Times, Sunday Times
Some had large dependent families, while others had teenage children able to make a substantial contribution.
Under current law, corporations can deduct charitable contributions only up to 10% of taxable income. Christianity Today
Ideally, a way would be found to encourage this official to keep an eye on all contributions, to avoid creating unfair favoritism.
They are quids in because of contributions to goldplated retirement funds. The Sun
He made another important contribution in using a grid to locate positions of places on the Earth.
Contributions to the Rotary DAF typically qualify for a U.S. income tax deduction.
Their energy is bottomless, their spirit indomitable, their contribution invaluable.
Since the tax refund is based on the taxpayer's marginal tax rate, it's prudent in some cases to defer deducting the RRSP contribution.
In this part, the main contribution is the analysis of the Bimodal restriction, we find essentially it's a special auto-adaptive histogram modification.
They make an important contribution to the intake of vitamin C and potassium. The Sun
Having suffered grievously from biological weapons attacks in the past, China supports work that helps comprehensively to strengthen the effectiveness of the convention. It has actively participated in the work of drawing up a Protocol of the Ad Hoc Group of States Parties to the BWC established in 1994, and has made contributions to the progress of the negotiations on the Protocol.
His remarkable contribution to literature has been too long in eclipse.
The second led on to an examination of the contribution that recent brain research might make.
A strong merchant banking contribution was more than offset by losses on investment management and stockbroking and some heavy loan provisions.
These two movements have one thing in common: they have sprung spontaneously from the individual's deep and firmly rooted conviction that the ordinary man and woman is capable of making a meaningful contribution to peace. The Nobel Peace Prize 1977 - Presentation Speech
Insurance contributions are paid at a fixed percentage rate on all earnings.
In other words, Helga Dernesch and Herbert von Karajan made the cut, despite frankly unidiomatic contributions from Karajan, but Birgit Nilsson -- under three different conductors, all in better sound than a 1903 wax cylinder. "Top" Ten Immolation Scenes?
Eitel makes an important contribution to contemporary missiology, and challenges Southern Baptist missionaries to study mission methods and philosophy more thoroughly.
Lexell made major contributions to spherical geometry and trigonometry.
a major contribution
Why is he so modest about his own contribution to the process?
Mahaan Sidhu here speaks about his contribution, about BJP, about God, about Modiji, about congress I (islami-isai) who he compares to a Chooha (jo boree nahin uta sakthaa lekin us par ched kar sakthaa hai). WN.com - Articles related to A software to identify people from Internet
Institutions devalue human potential and minimize the contributions of individuals.
I was an avid contributor to the magazine in my schooldays, but my last contribution was as a 16-year-old in 1955, my matric year.
The highbrow study claims to demonstrate the huge contribution the "derriere" has made to civilisation, mixing the views of top psychoanalysts, philosophers, scientists and artists. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
Your financial adviser will be able to explain how you apply. Voluntary contributions by your employer.
Many like them have raised money for local charities or simply made a genuine and lasting contribution to their communities.
he made the contribution out of his own purse
Together, the new technologies gave Europe and the United States an abundant and inexpensive, rigid yet moldable, material, which was an important contribution to the industrial revolution.
Does it celebrate his unique gifts and encourage the contribution he is more than eager to make?
The 23-year-old's principal contribution to Chelsea attacks over the past few seasons has been to drop back to help the central defenders cover for Ashley Cole when the full-back embarks on one of his regular raids down the left. Passenger or driving force? The enigma of Mikel John Obi
They have also indicated a willingness to increase their contribution as the cost of Law Reports rises.
his silence about my contribution was surprising
I incorporated some of what I liked about Miller's recipe (namely the sweet), my own contribution (the bacon) and also subbed in smoked Spanish paprika for half of the chipotle peppers, my standard sub for the kids. Archive 2009-06-01
if everyone could make a big contribution to environmental protection, our home will become much more beautiful.
Taking a biosocial perspective on human reproduction, we examine contributions from biological and cultural anthropology concerning men's reproductive health.
You'd think that I would have beaten Whitfield to the punch in my own videocast with Frank, but I was content to focus on Frank's positive contribution. David Sloan Wilson: Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates
Prepare and develop product contribution analysis with the manufacturing plants in order to drive contribution improvements.
All the women who had paid full National Insurance contributions had sufficient contributions to be eligible for unemployment benefit.
To gaze at our elusive past can seem an insufficient contribution in such circumstances. The Past is Before Us - feminism in action since the 1960s
The overall effect will be offset by higher insurance thresholds, and a slightly higher base for income taxation as social contributions are deducted from gross income before charging income taxes.
a contribution so small as to be laughable
Miserably behind in its contribution to the building of the cathedral.
Indeed, it was in malacology that Lermond's contributions to natural science have been most long lasting.
While the history of this participation remains sketchy and incomplete, individual contributions have not escaped notice.
The other contribution is the synthesis of liquid crystalline conjugated polymers by replacing the hydrogen atom bonded to polyacetylene with a substituent having liquid crystalline nature as the side chain. Hideki Shirakawa - Autobiography
Couples could also opt out of the scheme and financial awards would be based solely on contributions made to the relationship. Times, Sunday Times
These papers contain contributions to regression analysis, the correlation coefficient and includes the chi-square test of statistical significance.
The employer's contribution and upfront tax relief provide a valuable boost to your savings. Times, Sunday Times
They are admittedly livelier than his uncle's sole contribution, a stately architectural rendering of the Grand Canal in Venice on a rainy day.
He made important contributions to the understanding of axoplasmic transport of neurosecretory material.
Last month, Mr. Wohlberg's organization made its largest contribution: a grant of $111,000 to researchers in the departments of neurosurgery and neuropathology at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. Father Seeks Cure After Rare Disease Hits Home

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