Sentence examples for a formative role from inspiring English sources

"We certainly hope that careful and serious engagement with serious forms of inquiry can have a formative role," Macedo says.

Taking account of participants' physical practices within sacred spaces, I suggest that these sensory experiences played a formative role for Muslims and for the Islamic identities they formed, both during the pilgrimage and afterwards.

Muzzey would play a formative role in Henry's life.

Light plays a formative role in some of these shots, and the approaches are more venturesome, some suggestive, some prim.

The town played a formative role in punk, thanks to McLaren, Reid and The Damned, and would later spawn dubstep.

Television, DVDs, video games, the Internet, and smart phones all play a formative role in children's development.

It is the recognition that early narratives play a strangely formative role in the attitudes of young people that would lead to this sort of change.

Normative discussions of urgent issues of science and technology developments could then play a more formative role in shaping adequate ELSI strategies.

"The political character of Islamic art arose because, in the absence of a priesthood, the formative role in its development fell to those who were politically powerful," Tim Stanley, senior curator of Middle East collections at the Victoria and Albert, writes in a catalog accompanying "Palace and Mosque".

Sean Parker, who changed the music industry as a teenager and then went onto have an early and formative role in Facebook, has long had one frontier that he's wanted to change: American democracy.

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