Sentence examples for guard a role from inspiring English sources

But Hughes had trouble finding his niche in a James-dominated offense, and the Cavaliers moved him to point guard, a role he disdained.

Ridnour is the only Timberwolves player to start all 58 games, but he has spent most of his minutes at shooting guard, a role that the 32-year-old, 6-foot-2, 175-pound Ridnour is ill-suited.

A glimmer of hope appears when Oscar gets a job as a security guard, a role to which he is fast-tracked because of a tattoo that shows him to be a former serviceman.

Bledsoe's presence allowed Phoenix to move Goran Dragic into more of a shooting guard role, a role where he has flourished so far this season.

We do not concern ourselves at this stage with determining the mechanism underlying the link between the declining leaf water status and the reduced maximum size of the guard cell, although a role for chemical signaling is likely.

However, our finding that the elevated [CO2]-stimulated increase in ROS is absent in the pyr1 pyl1 pyl4 and pyr1 pyl1 pyl2 pyl4 guard cells clearly suggests a role for the ABA receptor family in the regulation of NADPH oxidase activity in guard cell [CO2] signaling.

Meerkats tend to adopt a guard role only when they are well fed.

Many security as well as administrative posts in Basra's provincial and town councils are already held by Islamists, and many secular-minded Iraqis felt that Islamists had too big a role guarding polling stations and transporting ballot boxes.

Mr. Bush's weekend of diplomacy also crossed a significant new threshold by paving the way for the first international "monitors" -- nonmilitary American and British guards -- to play a role in detaining the six Palestinian militants wanted by Israel for allegedly taking part in the killing of its tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi, last October.

9 The utility and function of commercially available hand-guards may also play a role.

Not exactly a forward, guard or center, Rodman invented a role for himself which subverts the logic of traditional positions.