The phrase "a distinctive role for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the specific function or contribution of something or someone within a particular context or system.
Example: "The new policy establishes a distinctive role for community engagement in the decision-making process."
Alternatives: "a unique function for" or "a specific purpose for".
Each one also imagined a distinctive role for believers within it.
Still, "in places that are in distress, like Disney and the New York Stock Exchange, it can be a good idea, because there is a distinctive role for the chairman," said Mr. Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management.
In the aftermath of World War II, as France sought a distinctive role for itself in the modern, postcolonial world, the nation and its leaders enthusiastically embraced large technological projects in general and nuclear power in particular.
Fox Broadcasting, eager to carve out a distinctive role for itself in the hierarchy of networks, has been consistently wooing working-class audiences with formats ranging from the drug shoot-outs of "Cops" to the sociological parables of "Alien Nation". One of its most successful ratings performers has been "Married..
Harper was elected to represent the Calgary West riding in the Canadian House of Commons in 1993 as a member of the Reform Party, which had been founded in the 1980s to express both a distinctive role for the western provinces in the Canadian federation and conservative views on social policy.
The downside, according to the report, was that a "distinctive role for higher vocational learning was arguably lost".
We concluded that this was a distinctive role of the intermediary that we would name the Power Promoter.
Thus Cohen maintains that there is a distinctive role in philosophy for a religion of reason: its distinctive concern is precisely with the particularities of individual humans' lived moral experience, and their attempts to overcome their various and different moral failings as they strive to realize ideal ethical laws.
His epistemological reform of metaphysics also ensures a distinctive role and subject matter for philosophical enquiry and is thus far from advocating a merely therapeutic conception of philosophy or the dissolution of philosophical into linguistic analysis in the manner of ordinary language philosophy.
In other words, boundary organisations perform tasks that are useful to both sides, but have a distinctive role that would be difficult or impossible for organisations in either community to play.
A scenario in which Britain leaves the European Union presents charities, in particular, with a distinctive role – not least because many of the people we work for, and with, voted for it.
