Which factor -- if any -- plays the dominant role is so far unclear.
The dominant role of religion is widely seen as the root of the country's homophobic culture.
And it would reassert the dominant role of the army and its intelligence service over a notionally civilian government.
When you look at biology, when you look at the natural world, the roles of a male and a female in society and in other animals, the male typically is the dominant role.
About 100 interagency emails released last Wednesday, the tip of a proverbial iceberg, show that there was extensive back-and-forth debate between the State Department and CIA regarding those revisions, with State playing the dominant role.
Which is why the concessions made by General Wiranto may just be a tactical retreat in preparation for a longer battle to preserve the dominant role the armed forces have enjoyed in Indonesia for the past 40 years.
But China's military which plays the dominant role in its relationship with North Korea has grown more determined to maintain Pyongyang as a buffer against U.S. forces in Asia since the Obama administration's strategic "pivot" toward the region, according to Chinese military analysts.
The "dominant role of the public sector as an employer" particularly in Egypt, but throughout the region has inflated the graduates' wage expectations, put a premium on diplomas over useful skills and diverted talented workers from what might have been more dynamic private-sector enterprises, the IMF says.
When it comes to gender expression, don't assume that the person wearing the pants at the wedding plays a dominant role in the relationship, she said.
Though the new charter continues to acknowledge the "dominant" role of public ownership, the changes subtly undermine the communist nature of the regime by legitimizing private property, which includes housing.
All this is not to say that private banks are about to turn on the monetary spigots and reclaim their dominant role in the money creation process.
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Zhang Liangui, a North Korea expert at the Communist Party's Central Party School, tells Global Times that China "will forever lose the chance to play a dominant role" in resolving the crisis if it fails to deter Pyongyang from going ahead with the test.
Speaking more philosophically, however, he suggests that the hostility reflects a culture with deep fears of losing its dominant role in the region.
The last Holyrood election saw the SNP become the first party to win an overall majority, meaning it plays a dominant role in the parliament's chamber and cross-party committees.
Its climb was meteoric from two seats in the 545-member Parliament in 1984, to 182 and a dominant role in the ruling coalition in 1998.
To appreciate the dollar's dominant international role and why it will be so hard to dislodge, consider that the dollar enters one side of 90% of all the world's interbank foreign exchange transactions.
Arguably one of the great weaknesses of the British and European economies is that capital-strapped banks play too dominant a role in the provision of vital finance to businesses (and households).
Above all, America must lead efforts to grapple with the global recession, through its dominant position at the IMF, its vital role in resisting the siren call of protectionism and the stimulative effect of the vast government outlays Mr Obama is planning.
He's positioning Adobe to once again play a dominant role in the next evolution in online media.
Moreover, some investors point out that India's dominant role in the gold market has been fading in recent years as its imports of the precious metal slowed.
Richard Li's purchase of Hongkong Telecom (HKT), in which Li is thought to have played a key behind-the-scenes role, was criticized as making the clan too dominant in the local economy.
Or the party could take on an increasingly corporatist role, dominant but not monolithic.
The Taliban started to re-emerge in Afghanistan and gradually gained a dominant role.
With David Vaughan brought in on the left, Ledley was pushed into a central midfield role and the Cardiff man was the star performer of a totally dominant first-half.
It gives state-owned companies a dominant role in oil, mining, electricity, transport and telecommunications, reflecting the government's mistrust of the private sector.
The report will be welcomed by some who consider that climate change has assumed too dominant a role in international policy circles.
When Mexicans first stepped into the role of Colombians in the mid-1990s, the Juarez and Tijuana cartels were dominant, beneficiaries of their location.
And in the 21st Century, IP-intensive industries like technology, advanced manufacturing and biopharmaceuticals will play an increasingly dominant role in our economy.
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Already the dominant player in China, look for AVIC to play a far more prominent in-your-face role, as the cash-rich company makes more acquisitions, locks down more joint ventures and makes further, more publicized inroads into the global aerospace market.
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