The phrase "a controlling role in" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that has significant influence or authority over a situation or group.
Example: "She played a controlling role in the decision-making process, ensuring that her ideas were prioritized."
Alternatives: "a dominant position in" or "a leading role in".
Engineers have played a prominent but not a controlling role in that culture, both in the design of the shuttle and in the planning of its missions.
One thing separating the candidates is that Ms. Rousseff wants the state oil giant, Petrobras, to have a controlling role in developing the nation's new oil fields, while Mr. Serra would rely more on outside companies, analysts said.
The offer includes a controlling role in the operating company and a 50% interest in the yogurt brand.
Therefore, we conclude that the NTP uplift and the related formation of the major deserts played a controlling role in the evolution of regional climatic conditions in a broad region in inland Asia since the Miocene.
Huang and Hairston (2015) compared the seasonal/longitudinal variations of the PRE with the variations of occurrence of small-amplitude and large-amplitude ESF irregularities, and they found that the PRE plays a controlling role in the generation of large-amplitude ESF.
Gender stereotypes often encourage Chinese women to be passive about sex and men to take more risks and assume a controlling role in relationships [ 53].
For the O73 channel system of the M oilfield, eustacy, tectonic movement and topographic slope play a key controlling role in reservoir architecture and distribution, and abundant sediment from the Congo River thanks to the moist climate in the Oligocene is also another vital factor in turbidite channel formation (Booth et al. 2003; Violet et al. 2005; Beydoun et al. 2002).
Patients deficient in the cytoskeletal regulator Wiskott Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp) are predisposed to varied autoimmunity, suggesting it has an important controlling role in participating cells.
In the atmosphere, carbon is contained in greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, where it exerts a controlling role on climate.
However, it is reasonable to postulate that drug solubility plays a controlling role rather than interparticle diffusion limitations.
It seems that the Dutch governmental organizations still have a dominant and controlling role in floodplain management.
