Sentence examples for not a key player from inspiring English sources

"He's really not a key player in the regime," one intelligence official said.

The IMF did not see the crisis coming, favored the ideas and policies that made the crisis more likely, and was not a key player in containing it.

"I can't see him out of the picture, but the fact is that he is going to be a senator, not prime minister, not a key player," said Mr. Fabbrini of Luiss Guido Carli University.

They saved tens of thousands of lives". But, despite the bravado, Biden was not a key player in the legislation that ultimately forced Bill Clinton to lift an arms embargo imposed by the United Nations on Bosnian Muslims fighting the Serbs, according to congressional officials involved in the issue and a review of Biden's speeches and voting record.

In many ways, Selig and the Giants were fortunate that it was Guillen — who had only been on the team since mid-August and was not a key player — who was linked to a federal investigation and not, say, one of the team's top starting pitchers.

Unlike the rest of his brothers who eventually led the Tijuana Cartel and made it one of the leading and most violent drug trafficking organizations in Mexico during the 1990s, Francisco Rafael was not a key player in the cartel's hegemony.

The statement reveals: "Knowing that we weren't a key player in the football world, we knew we had to work harder than anyone else for our bid to succeed.

Despite that connection, the report released Friday says Brandon wasn't a key player in a process that ultimately co-opted the American Psychological Association into the spies' torture operation.

During the same time Bendtner has won a Serie A title, the FA Cup and the German Cup although he has not been a key player in either of the three triumphs.

Since then, Liverpool-born Barkley, 20, has risen through the Everton ranks to become not only a key player for the Toffees as they secured a fifth-place finish in the Premier League this season, but also a beacon of hope for the future of English football, which has culminated in his inclusion in Roy Hodgson's England squad for this summer's World Cup finals in Brazil.

As a protein linking death receptors to death initiators, it is not only a key player in cell death, but also has reported roles in non-apoptotic processes.