Sentence examples for role occupying from inspiring English sources
But the tackles can claim some credit for those numbers, along with the 93 regular-season tackles by linebacker Michael Boley, because of their role occupying blockers to enable their teammates to roam more freely.
Michael Mancienne was once being groomed for the role, occupying it in front of Phil Jones and Chris Smalling, and behind Henderson, in Stuart Pearce's team at the 2011 European Under-21 finals.
In James H. S. McGregor's "Paris From the Ground Up" — which offers an informative history of the city's art and architecture — the Eiffel Tower necessarily plays a smaller role, occupying only four pages of a book that, by contrast, devotes a 30-page chapter to the Cathedral of Notre Dame.
Students played a lead role, occupying university buildings and resisting eviction by building barricades and defending them with homemade weapons.
(Lavinia Blackwall takes the role occupied in the past by singers like Sandy Denny, Jacqui McShee and Maddy Prior).
Kagawa plays behind the strikers — a role occupied by Ryan Giggs, among others.
Mirren is currently playing the Queen in The Audience on Broadway, with the same role occupied by Kristin Scott Thomas on the London stage.
It meant that Wayne Rooney had to play wide in a front three, but equally you could see him in the central role occupied by Darren Bent in the future.
The second presenter's role occupied by Guru-Murthy, who joined the programme in 1998, will be expanded to include more heavyweight interviews and live studio debates, but ITN said Snow's on-screen role would not be diminished.
One way to view Kissack's sudden entrance into the lives of the fishermen is to imagine him as a born-again Christian Max Bialystock, with the Leo Bloom role occupied by a Colombian born-again Orthodox Jew named Eli Beda.
While David Tennant reprises his role as the male detective – though here, his name has been changed from Alec Hardy to Emmett Carver – Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn now plays his partner Ellie Miller, a role occupied by Olivia Colman in the British version.
