Sentence examples for given the leading role from inspiring English sources

She was always given the leading role.

The crisis has given the leading role in Europe to Germany.

Glynis Johns had turned up at the Disney studios, convinced that she was to be given the leading role.

David Cameron's parliamentary defeat over intervention in Syria came as a surprise to most, given the leading role Britain and Francece – typically play in European foreign policy.

C.I.A. officers have played a major part in the supersecret military Special Operations teams, including Task Force 121, that were given the leading role in tracking down Iraqi leaders.

She had her first professional stage experience at 19, and she was 21 when she was given the leading role in the first Turkish sound movie, "Istanbul Sokaklari" ("The Streets of Istanbul").

It gives the leading role in the movement to Judd, whose astringent aesthetic was also a decorative style, inflecting obdurate objects with seductive surfaces and gorgeous color: wall-hung cubical mod-ules in polished brass and pink Plexiglas, for example.

I wondered whether to give her the leading role in "Live Flesh," but she was too young.

Mr Obama gave Joe Biden the leading role in managing America's withdrawal from Iraq and, sometimes, negotiating with the Republicans' awkward squad on Capitol Hill.

The following year, he gave her the leading role of the ugly little clown - a character rejected by her fellows when she is discovered to be bald - in Laiderette (to the music of the Swiss composer Frank Martin).

Alabama's pension fund won its bid yesterday to become the primary lender for US Airways, giving it the leading role in the airline's effort to emerge from bankruptcy court.