Sentence examples for be a central player from inspiring English sources

He will also be a central player when the Rays and the Yankees begin a vital three-game series in St . Petersburg Fla., on Monday night.

But for all of this Dennis Mahon seemed secretly thrilled to be a central player in the alternative history of the Oklahoma bombing.

The ministers agreed, signaling that Iraq would again be a central player in the organization for the first time since the United States-led invasion and toppling of Saddam Hussein in 2003.

Mr. Rubinstein will try to make the case that Mr. Silverstein should be a central player in rebuilding a version of the World Trade Center, phoenixlike, at ground zero.

You might wonder, then, how this private man came to be a central player in a cultural moment that gripped millions and, in the midst of the cold war, seemed to have huge political portent.

The man – described as "connected to the Bahrain royal family" and "well versed in the normal ways of Middle East business" – was found to be a central player in a huge fraud committed by another big aluminium business, Alcoa, which the SEC fined £233m – the fourth largest fine of its kind in US history.

He's a central player playing out wide who has learned to adapt.

Mr. Obama credited her with being a central player in his presidency.

Egypt has been a central player for months in the quest for a cease-fire.

But they never before said that Mr. Tenet was a central player in that process.

Those actions triggered international outrage and a diplomatic crisis in which the EU was a central player.