Sentence examples for a practical role from inspiring English sources

In rural areas, far from the courts, chiefs and headmen play a practical role in mediating disputes.

That said, they insist that their work conforms to the traditional definition of design by being functional, even though it doesn't fulfill a practical role.

In his interview with Estefanos, Mered suggested that he did not have a practical role in the transportation of migrants across the Mediterranean.

In his interview with Estefanos, Mered suggested that he did not have a practical role in the transportation of migrants either across the Mediterranean, or through the Sahara.

While designers fulfill a practical role, typically defined by their clients, and delegate the making of their work to other people.

But Yagen's is the only one that plays a practical role in a profitmaking business.

The panels give the museum an opaque, mute personality, but they also have a major practical role: Along with skylights on the roof, they help bounce daylight into the galleries.

These majestic giants give great pleasure to visitors to Westminster and the City and perform a vital practical role, too.

There's a tendency in theatre to see directors as the creative ones and producing as a more practical role, but I've found the producing to be creative as well as practical.

We also defined another subset that may play a key practical role in maintaining the state of "stemness".

However, although wealth has played an important practical role in my life, I have of course had a different relationship with it to most people.