Sentence examples for play a helpful role from inspiring English sources

"It is my wish that the Department of Interior can play a helpful role".

But although some forms of bioenergy can play a helpful role, dedicating land specifically for generating bioenergy is unwise.

The King asked if the U.S. could play a helpful role in getting the Saudis to let the gas project proceed.

But if they are adapted to fit individual countries' circumstances, they can play a helpful role in nurturing the domestic industries that lasting growth requires.

We knew that Iraq's police forces were corrupt, politically tainted, despised by the population and ill trained, and thus should not have expected them to play a helpful role.

This is, again, something that the last two popes did as well — but if Pope Francis's public profile continues to come across as more "liberal" than theirs, it might actually play a helpful role in complicating the "partisan captivity" scenario that Reno sketches out.

And in the last couple of months, it has played a helpful role in both Sudan and North Korea.

But there have been occasions when amicable personal relations played a helpful role, most notably during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Mr. Bush's father.

A person who is familiar with Mr. Gonzales's account of the events said that the former attorney general had acknowledged having raised with Mr. Goss the idea that Ms. Harman was playing a helpful role in dealing with The Times.

Though he broadly pursued closer ties with the West, and played a helpful role in ending the war in Kosovo last year, Mr. Yeltsin could be inconsistent in dealing with foreign issues.

What is neglected is how much the Department of Defense played a helpful role to the electronics industry in the 1950s and '60s as a customer that guaranteed purchasing, but also insisted on improvement over time, and the sharing of intellectual property.