Sentence examples for played a principal from inspiring English sources

In 1989 Parton played a principal role in Steel Magnolias.

In 1907 he played a principal role in the establishment of the International Union of Socialist Youth Organizations in Stuttgart.

Baring family, British family whose banking and commercial house played a principal role in British overseas lending for two centuries.

Bombers after World War II gained increased speed by jet propulsion, and their nuclear bombloads played a principal role in the superpowers' strategic thinking during the Cold War.

Though his on-screen credit was often simply "technical effects" or "special visual effects," Mr. Harryhausen usually played a principal creative role in the films featuring his work.

He played a principal role in drafting the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and in establishing the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.

The rest are landscapes and seascapes from 1820 to 1830, in which skies play a principal role (Glueck).

REPORTER AT LARGE about the trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann, former Nazi official, accused of playing a principal role in the Nazi program to exterminate the Jews.

The first video, released today as a preview, was written by Anna Deavere Smith ("Let Me Down Easy") and features the actor Stephen McKinley Henderson playing a principal drafting a letter to parents about a school tragedy.

According to differing accounts, he had been upset by the presence of President Zuma, who he loathes, and considered Mr Mandela's grandson playing a principal part in hosting the event as a breach of protocol.

I'd never done any real acting before - so why not go on the West End stage, learn an entire book, play a principal character and do a fucking accent that nobody is going to believe?