Sentence examples for containing role from inspiring English sources

Moeen was absent then, though, through injury, meaning Rashid was asked to perform a containing role that he is ill-suited to.

In a four-man attack, if he cannot take wickets Swann must be able to play a containing role, to enable the seamers to take a breather.

Because of their continued determination to play such a preponderance of batsmen, Morgan was forced to turn to Ravi Bopara and James Tredwell in their containing roles.

Agnès is a lyrical, contained role.

A central principle in the analysis is that the network contains roles or functions as nodes, not specific organisation names.

"I see myself certainly stopping or containing the role of the government to limit it to what the courts have said the proper role is," Mr. McGahn said.

The first indication of Shepard's inter est came when she auditioned for a part in his play Forensic and the Navigators (1967) only to find it contained a role called Oolan, whose character mirrored her own.

Our role was known as 'home, cook, kids.' Yes, we were educated, we have jobs in certain fields, but there are social limits that have contained our role.

Tory sources later expressed delight that the plan for schools reform contained no role for local authorities in enforcing fair school admission policies.

There is no word yet as to whether In the Future contains a role for Sorrentino's regular collaborator Toni Servillo, who played the lead in The Great Beauty.

Kent likes what he sees, and casually tosses out an invitation to Valerie to come and see him in Manhattan, where he's working on a new project that might contain a role for her.