"elevate the role" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you would like to express the idea of increasing the importance of a role or certain responsibility. For example, "The committee decided to elevate the role of the head administrator in order to ensure greater efficiency."
The impact this might have on perceptions might redefine masculinity, and also serve to elevate the role of the first female president.
This office has tried to elevate the role of data so that every close call is not just a matter of pleasing the right ideological army.
So what would motivate the justices to reach for this little case, with its facts that are surely inauspicious for those who want to elevate the role of religion in the public square?
Liberals are pleased that a prime minister who tried to elevate the role of Islamic law has been replaced by a general who warns against the "exploitation of religion".
Looking back on it, the failure of the Social Security proposal in 2005 marked the symbolic end of more than two decades in which conservatives had pushed — successfully, more often than not — to diminish the role of government and to elevate the role of the market in the national economy and the lives of individuals.
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He elevated the role of UN secretary general and affirmed its impartiality in the face of superpowers.
He is credited with elevating the role of music in movies and with introducing the sounds of folk and classical Indian music into film composition.
Jay-Z said that his future as an artist could involve elevating the role of live performances, long a mixed bag even for popular rap acts.
The machinery of recording and duplication steadily elevated the role of musicians during this century until many of them now have reached celebrity status and riches.
Among other things, that decision elevated the role of summary judgment as a tool for minimizing the speech-silencing specter of costly lawsuits by public figures.
