Sentence examples for formative role from inspiring English sources

"We certainly hope that careful and serious engagement with serious forms of inquiry can have a formative role," Macedo says.

Taking account of participants' physical practices within sacred spaces, I suggest that these sensory experiences played a formative role for Muslims and for the Islamic identities they formed, both during the pilgrimage and afterwards.

Muzzey would play a formative role in Henry's life.

I argue for the formative role of this moment for modern historiography.

Light plays a formative role in some of these shots, and the approaches are more venturesome, some suggestive, some prim.

The town played a formative role in punk, thanks to McLaren, Reid and The Damned, and would later spawn dubstep.

I was surprised to learn of the formative role played by women in the development of computer science.

Television, DVDs, video games, the Internet, and smart phones all play a formative role in children's development.

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Ms. Reidy was hired too late in the game to play a formative role in pursuing the Democratic and Republican conventions.

Whoever wrote it played a formative role in shaping the modern American Christmas, said Stephen Nissenbaum, author of the history "The Battle for Christmas" (Knopf, 1996).