Sentence examples for Prescribed roles from inspiring English sources
Capitalism allows Indians to imagine and even realize lives outside their fates (kismet) and prescribed roles (karma).
Driving the novel's story was Yū's belief that many people hold their families together by acting out prescribed roles within the social unit.
None have prescribed roles: Harry sings and often plays guitar, Tom balances bass and laptop, while Tim and Steve trade places at the drumkit, or juggle trombone and percussion.
While her new novel is surely her most overt attack on the traditional limits placed on women in India, it hints at how US women, with their sun beds and supermar kets, are also in thrall to prescribed roles.
The two men who call Mirko into their car exercise a strange power; they are an invisible force that leads the children to carry out their prescribed roles not so much because they derive pleasure from them but because they don't know how to escape.
Since then, history has pretty much confined the two legendary groups to their prescribed roles: The Beatles as innovators and universal pop icons, the Stones as the anti-Beatles, the dirtiest Chicago blues band not from Chicago.
This inquiry does not imply a disrespect for state courts but rather a respect for the constitutionally prescribed role of state legislatures.
Mr. Chiseri, who had no prescribed role in the application process, was dismissed in April for belatedly telling his superiors that Mr. Friedman had offered him $20,000 for his help.
The New York Times reported last month that as deputy commissioner for operations, Mr. Chiseri did not have any prescribed role in the processing of applications from health care businesses.
As the department's deputy commissioner for operations, he had no prescribed role in the processing of applications from health-care businesses, and was not generally known to lawyers and lobbyists in the state's health-care field.
Performing a prescribed role soothes your paralysing self-consciousness; hiding inside a character, you get the attention you crave, minus the deer-in-the-headlights panic of trying to "be yourself".
