appropriate role

collocation in English

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appropriate
adjective
uk
/əˈprəʊ.pri.ət/us
/əˈproʊ.pri.ət/
suitable or right for a particular situation ...
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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 ofappropriateandrolefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Failures can thus be detected, and potentially resolved through anappropriaterolesubstitution, or the task abandoned if no substitution is possible.
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This more objective approach will pay important dividends in the current debate about theappropriateroleof humanitarian institutions on the international stage.
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This is anappropriaterolefor the physician, but a physician is more than a counselor.
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Two other characteristics must be established before a medical technology can pass from research into clinical practice: its cost-effectiveness and itsappropriaterole.
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Relatively small circles and networks of politicians, diplomats, and archaeologists shaped opinion on archaeological enterprise and theappropriaterolefor the state.
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So how can we find anappropriaterolefor ethics in architecture?
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The research provokes a further question as to what is the mostappropriaterole, if any, for government in such development initiatives.
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This consultation process often reveals severe horizontal conflicts among the cantons about theappropriateroleof the federation in a certain policy area.
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We also struggled to determine ourappropriaterolein assisting these low-income people during crises.
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In hospital-based and specialist care contexts, a host of other important considerations may influence the determination of theappropriateroleand level of responsibilities of clinical caregivers.
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At the deepest level, it is an understanding of theappropriateroleof the state in a mixed economy and therefore of the appropriate direction for any new policy initiative.
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The second part forms the heart of the book through its description of specific, evidence-based clinical techniques and theirappropriaterolein the rehabilitation of severe and disabling mental illness.
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That publication recognized and explained the problem and went on to suggest a process of achieving emotional awareness and mastery to help physicians maintain theirappropriaterole.
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This was never seen as being theappropriaterolefor a commissioner.
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However, that development has not been accompanied by a proper review of theappropriateroleof family planning clinics.
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That may well be anappropriaterolefor it to undertake.
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The question is: how can we make it more respectable and influential and give it a moreappropriaterolein the constitution?
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This involved, of course, anappropriaterolefor local authorities with a supporting base of professional skill and popular understanding.
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We stand ready to play anappropriaterolein whatever arrangements the parties work out.
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