Sentence examples for in a supporting role to from inspiring English sources

We feel like we're in a supporting role to the Iraqis".

On the campaign trail, if he mentions his mother, he casts her in a supporting role to his father.

Music's always been in contemporary dance – and Leftfield's work is used quite a lot - but it's often in a supporting role to the movement.

His first major screen success was in a supporting role to Richard Burton in the 1970 film "Anne of the Thousand Days".

The novel was a hit, as was the 1987 sequel, The Silence of the Lambs, which also starred Lecter in a supporting role to FBI hopeful Clarice Starling.

He began the race in a supporting role to Evans but proved the stronger rider and finished fifth to Evans' seventh.

-To help facilitate the process, we ask for students interested in playing a supporting role to fill out the application, to consolidate the information.

"The design in some ways plays a supporting role to the leading role of the music," he said.

Piatek's favourite team to play on Fifa was the treble-winning Inter side in which Pandev played a supporting role to Diego Milito and Samuel Eto'o.

Audrey Saunders of the Pegu Club in New York told me that realizing this led her to develop a series of what she calls "inverted drinks," in which spirits play a supporting role to vermouth or other low-alcohol ingredients.

But the project was conceived in the shadow of embassy bombings in Africa and the terrorist attack on the destroyer Cole in Yemen, and it will undoubtedly be received as the first in a long line of buildings in which architecture will play a supporting role to security.