Sentence examples for a principal player from inspiring English sources

"But being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player".

American and British diplomats say the Liberian president, Charles Taylor, is a principal player in diamond smuggling.

With that one jaw-dropping deal, Mr. Dimon, like the bank's namesake before him, has become a principal player in the biggest financial drama of his age.

Like the bank's namesake before him, Mr. Dimon has become a principal player in the biggest financial drama of his age.

Europe's arms companies, with Britain a principal player, continued to flood the country, which has the world's second-lowest life expectancy, with military hardware.

Britain's request was lodged early this year but became public only on Monday, as accounts emerged that a principal player in the scandal that led to Mr. Bo's dismissal had claimed that the dead man, Neil Heywood, had been poisoned.

BALAZS RUMY This young Hungarian clarinetist, an alumnus of the Juilliard School and a past principal player with prestigious youth orchestras in Europe, will be presented by Juilliard in a fascinating program of 20th-century Eastern European music inspired by folklore and folk songs.

Any time Polanski is in the news, Geimer is once again thrown back into reliving her invaded girlhood, an unwilling principal player in a story never satisfactorily concluded.

All the rabbit tales were inspired in part by Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus stories, which Potter began illustrating as early as 1893 in an attempt to find career direction and probably because they featured a rabbit as principal player.

In the "western" branch (Scheme 1), where Ni-containing CODH/ACS is the principal player, a second molecule of CO2 is reduced to a CO intermediate by the CODH active site C-cluster.

As one principal player said: "The difference between a very good performance and a great one is, more often than not, in the hands of the player.