Sentence examples for conspicuous role in from inspiring English sources

Yet style did play a conspicuous role in his work.

"La Muette" proceeded to play a conspicuous role in the turbulent summer of 1830, when the old European order momentarily trembled.

His most conspicuous role in the Bush campaign had been a speech at the Republican convention in Philadelphia, in which he scolded the party for being insensitive to the condition of minorities.

Another reason American progressives are playing such a conspicuous role in Europe's efforts to come up with a "third way" between socialism and American-style capitalism, said Mr. Ackerman of Yale, is that they are not Marxists.

He also played a conspicuous role in the congressional debate over the disputed presidential election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden, which was decided by a special Electoral Commission.

Mr. Keeb did not play any conspicuous role in the revolt against Colonel Qaddafi, but leaders of the revolt from Tripoli, the Western mountains and the coastal city of Misurata cheered his selection.

When combined with ecclesiastical reforms undertaken by Charles's close adviser William Laud, the archbishop of Canterbury, and with the conspicuous role assumed in these reforms by Henrietta Maria, Charles's Catholic queen, and her courtiers, many in England became alarmed.

There was great eloquence, uncommon courage, and selflessness, particularly in the case of the young prisoner Elliott James Barkley, now dead, who was to have been released in days and who continued to help those he called his brothers in a conspicuous role of leadership.

This case of successful remodeling is related to a particular social and political conjuncture in Spain in which urban planners had to negotiate their original plan with very strong social urban movements, in which women played a conspicuous role.

For this action he was promoted to brigadier general and succeeded Rosecrans in command of the Army of the Cumberland shortly before the great victory at Chattanooga (November), in which he and his army played a conspicuous role.

In recent months Javier Solana, the EU's foreign-policy chief, has played an increasingly conspicuous role there.