The phrase "residual role" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It describes a small, remaining or leftover role or responsibility. Example: Even though she had just retired, she still maintained a residual role in the company as a consultant.
She added that the individual police standards units would retain a residual role to be defined in further talks.
The Irish armed forces are mainly organized around their external mission; however, they do play a residual role in what they call "on-island" security.
In some countries social assistance plays a residual role, providing a less favourable level of support than is normally available from social insurance benefits.
The minister said councils will retain a residual role in ensuring there are enough school places to meet demand under the Conservative proposals, and she suggested councils will have to adopt a similar business-friendly approach to attracting schools as they do towards creating jobs.
It will be interesting to see whether that has any residual role or, like the euro zone's original growth and stability pact, is viewed as a piece of waste paper.
However, a compelling question asks whether there is a residual role for US in enhancing transfection: that is, once the genetic material has been delivered to the cytosol, can US assist in its transport into the nucleus?
In the current issue of World Policy Journal, Malcolm Chalmers of Stanford University argues for the creation of a European Security Organization, based on the Conference on Security and Cooperation, with only a residual, transitional role for NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
MSF's justification for staying related also to a residual protection role, albeit focusing mainly on medical issues; MSF should.
The family retained many residual economic roles and acquired some new ones.
Butch Patrick no longer receives residuals for his role as Eddie Munster, the little Munster with the monstrous widow's peak.
I was dealing with the character Donald Freed wrote, who was not the real Nixon". The residual effect of the role?
