Sentence examples for shadowy role from inspiring English sources

But long before the Olympics came to town, the East End played a leading if shadowy role in London's history.

The hearing was also a tribute to the advantages of incumbency and to the shadowy role impeachment is playing in our politics.

A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander has been killed in Syria in an incident that sheds light on Tehran's growing, shadowy role in bolstering Bashar al-Assad's regime.

Iran's somewhat shadowy role burst into the open in February when Brig. Gen. Hassan Shateri, a Quds Force officer, was killed when he ran into a rebel checkpoint after visiting Aleppo.

Could it be that mainland China is trying to muffle dissent?Many in Hong Kong believe, without hard evidence, that mainland China has played a shadowy role in the rash of resignations.

Contributing to this epiphany was the demonising of Slovo by the regime and its popularising of his shadowy role as chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC's armed wing.

Two weeks later, after an eviction, clashes in Cairo and accusations of a shadowy State Department role in the trip, it is clear that Occupy Wall Street will not be going to Cairo in time for the first round of Egypt's parliamentary elections on Nov. 28, and probably not at all.

Toklas outlived Stein by twenty years and emerged from her role of shadowy companion to become a distinct character in her own right.

On a trip to Tunisia in December, we heard frequent condemnation of the growing role of shadowy "militias".

But Cave is mostly in his familiar role as sombre, shadowy storyteller-observer.

As tensions roil with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines over maritime territorial claims, the role of these shadowy figures among China's security policymakers is a topic of much speculation.