Collocations withrole
These are words often used in combination withrole.
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acting role
This was, however, his first acting role.
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active role
Most of the participants' mothers played both a passive and active role in their daughters' illnesses and also both a negative and positive role.
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advisory role
Rejecting the purely advisory role reluctantly assigned to it, the committee sought instead actively to direct women's war effort.
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appropriate role
Failures can thus be detected, and potentially resolved through an appropriate role substitution, or the task abandoned if no substitution is possible.
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assigned role
Timing, however, conspired against the actual use of these boats in their assigned role.
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cameo role
Starr herself appears in the film in a cameo role.
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caregiving role
Numerous work interferences predicted a lessened desire to continue in the caregiving role.
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catalytic role
There are several potential candidates that could play a catalytic role in the different regions.
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causal role
The causal role of phonology in visual word recognition is difficult to establish unambiguously even after many years of careful research.
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central role
Consequently, he attributes a central role to lemma retrieval in the speech process.
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challenging role
Home visitors have a challenging role, requiring personal warmth, problem-solving and organizational skills, and crisis management abilities, and must work alone and with challenging recipients.
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changing role
Changing role of cultivated land in the global carbon cycle.
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combat role
That is a problem, in that his specific battle list is used to make the crucial case that sepoys were kept in a secondary combat role.
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comedic role
In the film he portrayed the comedic role of a brutal biker.
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complementary role
Instead, it required that the groups play a complementary role in the development of nationalism.
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constructive role
Actually, this theme played a much more complicated and constructive role in the early history of the microscopical life sciences than is commonly assumed.
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consultative role
It generally has no more than a consultative role in the process of contract definition.
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critical role
This paper argues that native stereotypes about language structure and use play a critical role in formulating the pragmatic value(s) of register systems.
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crucial role
In later development, language plays a crucial role in understanding the world, and in leading to change in culture-specific behavior.
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decisive role
The location where the flux limit plays its decisive role is the high density jump behind the laser deposition region.
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defined role
Instead, it gives a defined role for rational explanation - to explain why and under what conditions those heuristics succeed in the environment.
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demanding role
We are quite clear that there will be a continuing and increasingly demanding role for special schools.
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diminished role
This late awareness, set in the context of colonial rule, is one in which the individual has a diminished role in construing social order.
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diminishing role
The role of informal systems does not mean a diminishing role for formal seed systems.
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distinct role
Instead of respecting and valuing its clear and distinct role in society, the civilian population ridiculed and also feared the armed forces.
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dominant role
Why does inflammation persist: a dominant role for the stromal microenvironment?
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dual role
The dual role of encouraging original work and critiquing it is difficult.
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enhanced role
The authors argue that regulatory capitalism seems the right name for ' an enhanced role for markets (and) also for regulation ' (p. 74).
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essential role
It has been found that radiation transport plays an essential role at stagnation phase, determining the final distribution of density and temperature.
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expanded role
Neither was concerned with popular participation in government, and both sought an expanded role of leadership for the intellectuals like themselves.
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expanding role
These studies suggest an expanding role for the practice nurse within primary care.
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feminine role
In both research and professional discourse, care-giving is generally described as a feminine role and as an experience full of stresses and hardships.
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functional role
The implications of this with respect to the functional role of phosducin in rods are discussed.
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fundamental role
This new notion will play a fundamental role in our main results.
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gender role
Of the numerous factors that may contribute toward marital tension, one is inequality - particularly among couples with an egalitarian gender role orientation.
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hands-on role
The hands-on role of the chief education officer will be very different as time goes on to that of the present director of education.
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important role
In sickness or in health, in life or in death, in wedding ceremonies, pigs played an important role in all of them.
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indispensable role
The best reason we have to be ontologically committed to a theoretical entity is that it has an indispensable role in our best theory.
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influential role
Finally, this recognizes the very influential role a caregiver plays in the subject's decisionmaking process.
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insignificant role
Mirrors, after all, play a not insignificant role in the articulation of his signature theory of the tactile imagination.
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instrumental role
There is nonetheless an instrumental role for good government as a support for economic growth.
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integral role
We believe that these cells have an integral role, together with cholinergic neurons, in sustaining and propagating rhythmic activity within basalo-cortical-basal circuits.
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invaluable role
The forum has played an invaluable role in helping us to develop our new strategy for tourism.
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key role
This observation is used in the proof of the following elementary lemma, which plays a key role in the main results of this section.
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lead role
Second, beginning in the 1910s, the lead role within the movement hitherto played by bourgeois, female activists passed to male engineers.
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leadership role
In many respects, participating schools could and should assume a significant leadership role in the establishment and implementation of the partnership process.
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leading role
The two partners immediately locked horns over the interpretation of the leading role.
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legitimate role
And disputes about what the courts should do are disputes about the morally legitimate role of courts-and not disputes about the criteria of legal validity.
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lesser role
The current findings suggest that neighborhood density may play a lesser role when learning high frequency or long words.
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limited role
The government in this economy plays a limited role.
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major role
The case marking and person inflection play a major role in the coding of syntactic roles.
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managerial role
Secondly, the extent of this managerial role is dependent upon both the nature of the department and political circumstances.
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marginal role
This paper argues that such a marginal role is not justified, given the potential of people to participate voluntarily.
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masculine role
This myth is the archetypal masculine role hallmarked by mastery and power.
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meaningful role
They were not ' ornamental non-entities ' with no meaningful role to play.
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mediating role
A further aim of the study was to investigate the possible mediating role of personality on the relationship between confidence and perceived ability.
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minor role
Statutory regulation played a relatively minor role in the prudential control of banks.
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moderating role
Results did provide support for a moderating role of maternal depression in the relation between children's internalizing symptoms and laboratory baseline cortisol levels.
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operational role
The self is a metaphor; it fulfills an operational role for immunology.
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peacekeeping role
Such collaboration seems incompatible with the idea of administrative insulation, which is regarded as an essential concomitant of any impartial peacekeeping role.
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pioneering role
The best evidence is found in the heterogeneity of local welfare arrangements and specifically in the pioneering role that some cities have played in the promotion of public welfare programmes.
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pivotal role
The marginalised subject-position of the woman, however, reveals the pivotal role of the feminine in the narcissistic constructions of male desire and the male self.
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positive role
The need to continue to build on this positive role is one of the main conclusions coming out of these early evaluations.
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predominant role
This made the systemic conflict between the two states, which had played a predominant role in the 1950s, look out of fashion.
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proactive role
By using the term "shall," statements of principle acted as declarations that states were to take a proactive role in the protection of labor.
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prominent role
The latter in particular has played a prominent role in the literature as a key diagnostic for determining the syntactic head of pseudopartitives.
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proper role
It is not the proper role of modern scholarship to provide such dubious genealogies.
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protective role
Tumor necrosis factor plays a protective role in experimental murine cutaneous leishmaniasis.
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recurring role
He joined the cast in 2005 initially in a recurring role before becoming a regular cast member.
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reserve role
Finally, sterling's international reserve role must be eliminated before membership.
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respective role
What is the respective role of the self-generated magnetic fields and of the electrothermal instability?
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role development
A number of activities are at play in workforce configurations: role substitution, role expansion, role development.
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role of politics
Recently, work in political science regarding the understanding of constitutionalism illuminates the ongoing role of politics in giving meaning to constitutions.
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secondary role
The assumption that the physical factors are primary, and that there is only a secondary role for social factors is no longer acceptable.
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significant role
Therefore, diagnostics and prognostics play a significant role in this paradigm shift.
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speaking role
I am grateful for his warm welcome to my speaking role today.
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starting role
He eventually lost his starting role, but by the end of the season he regained his form and contributed to the team's playoff run.
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stereotypical role
Among those, the activities described vary in terms of how much conscious shaping of events they actually involve and in how far they reflect stereotypical role models.
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submissive role
From this position, the buyer manipulates the turn-taking machinery to relegate the seller to an inferior, submissive role, denying her access to the resources of conversation.
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subordinate role
In 1956-60 they demanded a larger, less subordinate role for indigenous business in commerce and industry.
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subservient role
By enacting the subservient role with the required deferential manners they could to an extent assert their interests.
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supervisory role
Some demonstrated multiple re-admissions of patients, reflecting a supervisory role of a proportion of their discharged patients in the community.
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supporting role
However, in the erect stance the legs have a supporting role that the arms have not.
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supportive role
It is not purely a product of perceptual processes such as auditory streaming, although streaming may play a supportive role.
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symbolic role
Within these events the conductor plays the most important symbolic role.
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traditional role
The requirement to assess clients' financial circumstances was the main conflict reported for district nurses compared to their traditional role.
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unique role
Each component has a unique role in aggregate wealth.
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varied role
It is true that parishes are diverse and have a varied role to play in the life of our communities.
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vital role
In this expedient the introductions have a vital role to play.
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