key role
collocation in Englishmeaningsofkeyandrole
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key
adjective
uk/kiː/us/kiː/
very important and having a lot of influence on other people ...
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role
noun[C]
uk/rəʊl/us/roʊl/
the position or purpose that someone or something has in a situation, organization, society, ...
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(Definition ofkeyandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkey role
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This observation is used in the proof of the following elementary lemma, which plays akeyrolein the main results of this section.
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The central theoretical concern focuses on the idea of regulatory ritualism and itskeyrolein regulatory capitalism.
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The evidence was rated as admissible at a post-conviction hearing and played akeyrolein having the accused released in 2003.
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Multi-branched loops can play akeyrolein tertiary structure because they can act as flexible hinges between otherwise fairly rigid helical domains.
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This board would be the precursor to the local advisory boards that would later play akeyrolein managing the public grasslands.
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Chapter vii, a splendid example of full and compelling analysis germane to the book's most ambitious goals, also plays akeyrolein its structure.
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Partners have akeyrolein moving research results toward action in policies, programmes, and practice.
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The thickness of the silique, an organ that does not produce ethylene, may have akeyrolein controlling the gas concentration during maturation.
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The presentation is set in a broader context of 'positive' analysis, analysis where order-theoretic notions and notions of positivity play akeyrole.
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It will be difficult to make the case that land that is neither residential nor developed plays akeyrolein constituting the owner's identity.
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Such models will likely play akeyrolein furthering our understanding of the transcriptional control of normal and pathological diaphragm development.
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Referrals to community groups and networks are increasingly advocated as having akeyrolewithin healthcare.
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This is all the more surprising given thekeyroleof the study of music in the development of these arguments.
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It can be those external factors, not social capital, that may play thekeyrolein the process.
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These reporting clauses play akeyrolein the construction of major claims, with greater writer visibility seen in politics than materials.
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The territorial state played akeyrolein this, sustaining some groups while eroding others.
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In the implosion process, the hydrodynamic instability has akeyrolein attaining the ignition.
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Steric potentials beneath a plane defined by the three putative binding sites plays akeyrolein determining agonist activity.
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In the project, functional programming played akeyrolein the development, allowing us to identify recurrent functional abstractions or patterns in the distributed system.
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