Sentence examples for frontline a role from inspiring English sources

For example, health educators may play as frontline a role as clinical staff, in terms of their degree of interface with the public in a disaster.

The former foreign secretary sparked speculation that he may be eyeing a return to a frontline role when he said Labour should accept it made mistakes in government and that he accepted the coalition's overall "envelope" in a key area of the public finances.

Rukban was a sophisticated assault on an Arab country playing a frontline role in the US-led coalition fighting Isis – its stance hardened by the immolation of the captured Jordanian pilot Muadh al-Kasasbeh in 2015.

Ankara has been reluctant to take part in the US-led alliance dedicated to eradicating the extremist group as a result, and has so far refused a frontline role despite land borders with both Iraq and Syria.

Turkey, a Nato member that shares a long border with Syria, has so far declined to take a frontline role, fearful that the military action will strengthen President Bashar al-Assad and bolster the Syrian Kurdish militants allied to the outlawed PKK in Turkey.

Germany may be a target because its troops are in Afghanistan, though not in a frontline role - its post-World War II constitution forbids that.

However, to realise the company's vision and objectives, the frontline employees also have a role in dealing with strategic issues, thus contributing to Policy Management activities.

Seen as being on the left of the Conservative Party, he has not played a frontline role in UK politics for some years.

A senior western source told the Guardian that Saudi Arabia felt so threatened by Isis that it was prepared to act in a frontline role.

From virtual obscurity, they are summoned from the backroom and thrown into a frontline role for which they have little preparation.

But while Gul, 73, is a well-known fundamentalist ideologue in Pakistan, experts say he is unlikely to play a frontline role in the fighting.