The phrase "a prominent role to" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the significance or importance of someone's involvement or contribution in a particular context.
Example: "The new policy will give a prominent role to community leaders in decision-making processes."
Alternatives: "a key role in" or "a significant position in".
Giving such a prominent role to women is also new for Viagra campaigns, which unlike recent ads for Cialis and Levitra have focused mostly on men.
And he assigns a prominent role to culture: "The average individual of a paranoid culture will become more paranoid than the average member of a trusting community".
As the general election approaches, the leaders' wives in particular will have a prominent role to play in wooing the voters.
It has also assigned a prominent role to its campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, a woman of Mexican descent who has been one of Mrs. Clinton's most trusted advisers and friends since her days as first lady of Arkansas.
The meeting itself has already attracted controversy because the Polish hosts have insisted on giving a prominent role to the coal industry, which provides most of the country's power and much of its exports.
Poland is notably hostile to tougher emissions targets, and attracted controversy early in the talks by giving a prominent role to the coal industry, that supplies 90% of the country's power.
Against the wishes of many cultural conservatives, Balinese gamelan music has begun to give a more prominent role to vocals, especially to the female voice.
Nevertheless, some of the views sureyed here seem to give a more prominent role to character and virtue than do others.
The simulation results show that the subgrid scale mixing plays a prominent role close to the source.
For database systems, automated physical database design always plays a prominent role due to the massive impact that it can play on system performance and ease of administration.
Evidence is accumulating for a prominent role of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) in tumour progression (reviewed by Thiery, 2002).
