Example sentences of "role play by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To understand why Jews should be bothered by Catholics praying at this site it is necessary to go back to the role played by the Catholic Church in fomenting antisemitism , the passivity of the Pope during the war while the exterminations were underway and even the suspicions caused by the reception of Austrian President Kurt Waldheim , with his dubious war record , by the present Pope , John Paul II ( from Poland ) . |
| 2 | E German clerics strive for peaceful change : Patricia Clough in Bonn examines the intermediary role played by the Protestant Church during the exodus to the West |
| 3 | He restricts himself to an account of the ground forces , so there is no coverage of the role played by the South African air force , for instance , and perhaps the distinction drawn by Britain at the outset of the war between the old Dominions and the members of the new Commonwealth which it regarded as a security risk could have been more strongly emphasized . |
| 4 | The second special factor has been the role played by the Murid Brotherhood , an Islamic movement founded in the first decade of the twentieth century by Amadu Bamba , which has played a key political role in delivering support first for the French colonial authorities and later for the governments of independent Senegal . |
| 5 | The Council of Nicaea was the largest assembly of bishops hitherto , and though the great majority of the members were from the Greek East , the presence of Roman legates and the prominent role played by the sees of Alexandria and Antioch made it possible for the council to be given the title ‘ ecumenical ’ . |
| 6 | Development finance : The Report acknowledged the crucial role played by the international banks in providing loans and export credits to non-oil LDCs . |
| 7 | Urgently reappraising the crucial role played by the radical Protestants who defied privilege , hierarchy and imperialism , this is an incisive and timely reminder of a hidden but powerful undercurrent in Irish history . |
| 8 | Despite the generous role played by the testator 's intention in these cases , the texts never speak of voluntas here . |
| 9 | For , whilst we all wish to see democratic government in South Africa and recognise the role played by the restoration of sporing links in achieving those aims , events of the last few weeks confirm that the country is still very unstable . |
| 10 | This is a sad opportunity missed not to discuss the background to the production of the books listed in Mr Jentsch 's catalogue : the tradition of printing in Italy from the earliest printed books through to Bodoni and on to Mardersteig in the present century , and the vital role played by the publisher in the production of any limited edition artist 's book . |
| 11 | Equally important in building a framework for the future was the role played by the most anonymous of the ECSC 's institutions , the Court of Justice . |
| 12 | Althusser 's influence declined in France after 1968 , partly as a result of the role played by the PCF , of which Althusser was a member , in the events of May 1968 , and partly as an effect of a number of critiques of his work , some of them by Althusser himself . |
| 13 | The influence this gave to the nobility was most clearly demonstrated in the role played by the élite Guards regiments in settling the succession struggles in the period between the reigns of Peter I and Catherine II . |
| 14 | There is also great uncertainty about the role played by the Imperial bureaucracy in the 1930s . |
| 15 | The seminar had three main aims : to examine the impact of Indian mass media on women and society ; to analyse the projection of women and women 's concerns in the mass media ; and to study the role played by the mass media in covering special concerns such as communal and family violence . |
| 16 | However , there is no doubt that the most important event for the museum will be the exhibition ‘ Au Louvre d'après les Maîtres ’ ( 26 April to 23 June 1993 ) that chronicles the active role played by the Louvre in the history of art over the last two centuries . |
| 17 | Nowhere is this more apparent than in the ambivalent role played by the magical philosophies of the Renaissance . |
| 18 | In Sections 4.4 and 4.7 we described the way in which schools set about spending their project grants and the key role played by the DCSLs in advising schools on the " weeding " of existing stock , the range of available books and materials , and the mechanics of ordering , cataloguing and shelving their acquisitions . |
| 19 | Take one example , the role played by the monarch . |
| 20 | It was felt by the Royal Commission on Police Powers that criminal prosecution and investigation could only work well if the general public felt confident in the role played by the police . |
| 21 | Lastly one may note the role played by the nervous system in controlling circadian behavioural patterns . |
| 22 | True , bolder challenges to orthodoxy , especially when they touched upon the role played by the party , provoked fierce resistance . |
| 23 | Even if the structural , social roots of liberal weakness are conceded , the traditional liberal interpretation can take refuge in its emphasis on the crucial role played by the key political figure , the Tsar . |
| 24 | Colin Kerr … predicts that in the second half of this century culture will hold the key role in the development of the economy , a role played by the automobile in the first half ( of this century ) . |
| 25 | A common strand in comments coming to the Commission from many quarters emphasises the vital role played by the clergy in the leading of worship , and the need for them to receive proper training in the selection and use of music in church . |
| 26 | Attention will be given to the role played by the machinery of government , by the civil service and by local government officers in the policy-making process , and some general points will be made about what we mean by that ‘ process ’ . |
| 27 | The determinants of an individuals ' welfare can be broadly classified as depending upon their own capacity to care for themselves combined with ( a ) market activities and relationships ; ( b ) the behaviour of ‘ significant others ’ as providers of ‘ informal care ’ amongst whom family members are likely to be the most important ; and ( c ) the role played by the state . |
| 28 | The combination of the reproducibility and reliability of long-term potentiation as a physiological phenomenon , the evidence of the central role played by the hippocampus in mammalian memory and the renewed enthusiasm about the prospects for productive research into the cellular processes of memory produced , in the early 1980s , an extraordinary bandwagon in hippocampal studies . |
| 29 | We have acknowledged the vital , substantial and positive role played by the LEA in all these matters . |
| 30 | A third section documents and analyses the increasingly repressive role played by the security forces and the corresponding violence employed by insurgent civilian paramilitary organisations . |