Sentence examples for be given roles from inspiring English sources

Some 900 youngsters from the six Olympic host boroughs would be given roles in the opening and closing ceremonies, he added.

This effectively means that minorities, and often women for that matter, tend to be given roles that serve to tell the story of the main white characters ("Tarzan The Ape Man" and "Places in the Heart").

Clearly, anyone suggesting that Andy Dick be given roles originally earmarked for Sean Penn needs to submit to a urine test; and no one is going to argue that Martin Lawrence -- rather than the great Denzel Washington -- should have played the lead in Training Day.

Someone like Anna Friel from Rochdale is now also being given roles outside those northern stereotypes".

"If anything, I was given roles by people who knew me and liked what I did".

"What's getting taken out of movies [to appease China], what actors aren't being given roles?

At school, where most are mainstreamed, the children are often the last to be asked to speak in class and rarely are given roles in school plays.

The problem, though, is that so few of them are given roles anywhere as meaty as the ones they played on that show.

She was regularly passed over for major Hollywood roles because of her complexion, and was given roles as a singer instead; roles which could easily be edited out of movies once they reached the south.

Alternatively, he could have been born into a high-ranking family and was given roles appropriate to his birth rank.

Women are given roles to serve by leading worship and are often permitted, if not encouraged, to teach the Bible as missionaries or evangelists externally.