Sentence examples for some odd role from inspiring English sources

That view has resulted in some odd role reversals.

The debate has thrown up some odd role-reversals: many Democrats are set against ambitious nation-building in one of the poorest countries of the world; key Republicans oppose excessive reliance on killing bad guys.In large part, this is a legacy of Iraq.

In an odd role reversal, Democrats rallied behind the administration's proposal.

In an odd role reversal, the country is more gung-ho than the administration.

It was an odd role for the comptroller, whose primary task is managing the Pentagon's $400 billion a year budget.

"In an odd role reversal," the political journalist E. J. Dionne, Jr., observes, "conservative Republican leaders lobbied the business lobbyists".

The controversy is part of a long-running philosophical debate about public health policy, but with an odd role reversal.

It's an odd role, given that he spent the 1980s and '90s buttering up chief executives on CNN, but he's now playing it very successfully.

But his is an odd role for an international cricketer since there is just one more T20 match for England this summer, against Pakistan.

Mr. Zhu spoke with passion, but it was an odd role for the government's leading economic reformer, who has never been its point man on Taiwan.

It is an odd role for an Israeli politician; Arab colleagues joke that Bishara seeks to be more Palestinian than Arafat himself.