The phrase "exercise the role" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to mean "assume a particular role or responsibility". For example: "He was asked to exercise the role of team leader during the project."
They read passages from the Bible as teaching that men should exercise the role of leader, whether as the head of families or in the Church.
The experience presented provides evidence to confirm this, and at the same time, confronts the dominant methodology based more on individual learning where the teacher continues to exercise the role of sole transmitter of knowledge.
With the fresh start that this Congress provides, the new majority has the opportunity to put past practices behind it and exercise the role of advice and consent as our constitution's framers intended.
The study aimed to investigate different types of exercise, the role of exercise motivation and body image outcomes within the fitness centre environment.
Six decades upon this wonderful planet, play-net, I see we get to exercise the roles, behaviors, emotions and the choices we make to plug'n play with the feelings they engender.
And it was he who exercised the role of judge in the disciplining of those who erred within the church (Acts 5 1 10).
They were allegedly supported by young female facilitators, who exercised the role of "active recruiters".
This history of subjection was compounded by women's exclusion from education, so that opponents of equality could then argue that women lacked the training or education required to exercise the same roles in society as men.
To exercise these roles, the national ministry of health requires a strong capacity in modern concepts of human resource management.
Conservatives who have long complained about the country's human-rights abuses are now much exercised by the role of American internet firms in the trampling of individual freedom.
To take the activity further, you might have students do the exercise in the role of a character, historical figure or as a member of a different demographic.
