Sentence examples for a devastating role from inspiring English sources

The same financial instruments, of course, played a devastating role in the recent crisis.

Sexual orientation is often in play here: in "Pretty Please," for example, a dressmaker named Paula engineers a devastating role reversal with her boyfriend, who by story's end is wearing earrings and holding a green purse.

The outbreak of bubonic plague, or Black Death, also played a devastating role in the decline of the Pax Mongolica.

Although most reports attribute TNF a devastating role in the retina and retinal diseases through the modulation of an inflammatory response, our results demonstrate that intravitreal injection of TNF before light exposure did not accelerate degeneration.

After a disappointing World Cup and a sense that injury and weariness had taken its toll, Messi's 2014-15 season was both a genuine, through-the-roof return to form, and evidence of his ability to adapt to a slightly different but equally devastating role as a mature creative footballer in a team overloaded at its front end with attacking talent.

2. Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth One of the books where the illness is confined to a devastating side role.

The real paradox here is that the one-drop rule succeeded all too well, so much so that its most devoted adherents today are African-Americans, in spite of its devastating role in their own history of exclusion.

If Rick never made another movie except his devastating role as the "gate-keeper" in Ghostbusters, the world would continue to be a better place because of him.

More significant, however, was the devastating role played by Gulf countries fearful of democratic contagion in the destruction of democratisation processes wherever Arab masses had dared rise up against their dictators.

The devastating role of CS-borne aldehydes is demonstrated as well (the non-salivary related direct pathway).

Just today, the New York Times published a devastating policy analysis of Clinton's role in the overthrow of Libyan president Muammar el-Qaddafi and the subsequent descent of Libya into chaos and civil war.