Sentence examples for played a vigorous from inspiring English sources
Mr. Bush and his White House have played a vigorous role in trying to ensure Mr. Cornyn's victory.
Axel Strauss, a violinist, and Anthony Molinaro, a pianist, gave an astringent, focused performance of the Schoenberg Fantasy (Op. 47) and the Emerson Quartet played a vigorous account of a movement from Shostakovich's Third Quartet.
Rebel activities and pronouncements have drawn little but scorn from most Colombians and the international community, which in the past has played a vigorous role in trying to keep the troubled peace process alive.
His aides have insisted that he is healthy and in control of the government, and say he played a vigorous game of hockey on Sunday, according to news agency reports.
The Foreign Office has already played a vigorous and little known role in getting Zardari elected president: Sir Mark Lyall Grant, the FCO political director, used his offices to elegantly strong-arm Pakistani political factions exiled to the UK into voting for the PPP's presidential candidate.
He played a vigorous match of tennis and, according to Coffey, fell and hit his head and was knocked out cold.
Young women in chadors were playing a vigorous game of volleyball in a nearby park, and students lounged around drinking tea and strumming guitars.
Now, as then, he plays a vigorous, brutal, sympathetic, ragingly leonine, charismatic character; in the NBC show he is King Silas, the leader of the newly unified kingdom of Gilboa, whose capital, Shiloh, is being inaugurated as the series starts.
Although his wife, Wendy Lee Gramm, served on the board of Enron, he has shown no indication of being deterred from playing a vigorous role during the debate over the measure.
Ms. Moore, on her own, played Jerome Kitzke's "Bringing Roses With Her Words" (2009), a theatrical piece that required her to walk onstage clapping and vocalizing, and to play a vigorous, if episodic, piano line embellished with a bit of percussion, as well as shouts, whoops, purring, babbling and laughter, before leaving the stage, still singing.
Taking a view contrary to that of many economists and politicians, they argue that government can and should play a vigorous role in encouraging employers to create good jobs — perhaps by providing tax incentives that require employers to pay a living wage.
