In any case, Washington no longer can afford to play the role of globo-cop.
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He could, however, find that others want to play the role of national saviour.
It also uses the old trick of forcing senior managers to play the role of customers.
Amazon could do something like this easily enough, but someone would have to play the role of page owner.
For their part, Portsmouth seemed happy to play the role of counter-attackers, especially given they had LuaLua's pace to utilise.
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It is also said covertly but significantly that the U.S. is too dumb and inept to play the role of security guarantor.
IMF's solvency, but it would point to America's unwillingness to play the role of global economic leader and that, in turn, could roil the markets.
Thom Weisel has done enough rainmaking in the technology sector over the past three decades to play the role of shaman himself if he wants.
And, perhaps worst of all, like the current UN peacekeeping force, these American troops will be obliged to play the role of honest brokers in Bosnia.
In one study, they asked participants to play the role of an NBA team manager who had the option of offering a contract to a particular player.
At Inter and Chelsea, he was working with players who hadn't won much on the global stage and so it was easier to play the role of prophet.
If that happens, Congress may well get to play the role of a spoiler and join hands with the BSP's rival, the Samajwadi Party, to form a coalition government.
Rome is jockeying to play the role of peacemaker by participating in the coalition while not seeming overly eager to oust Gadhafi, currying favor with both the coalition and Gadhafi.
The Old Trafford crowd could have been forgiven for expecting an avalanche of goals at this point, but Boro failed to play the role of willing lambs to the slaughter.
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As chief financial officer Kelly had been one of the more buttoned-up senior managers, though he once shaved his legs to play the role of Hairspray's Edna Turnblatt for one of the company's over-the-top Halloween parties.
Obviously, such leverage has security implications not the least for the useful role it may play in inducing increasingly "independent" nations of its former empire to play the role of pass-throughs of Western technology and know-how.
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Boseman merely acts as the rock around which his own story revolves (this is of course something the film acknowledges, as Robinson is forced to play the role of the generic black man in the eyes of his fans).
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Rumours can run especially rampant in China because, even as citizens now have more social space in which to live, the country lacks sufficiently reliable institutions, such as an independent press and judiciary, to play the role of referee.
Perhaps most troubling, when a second set of participants were asked to play the role of marketer and choose which of the two packages they thought would be more attractive to buyers, 92% of them chose the package with the free download.
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Filling this new role at this time in my career is somewhat comparable to being that 20- or 30-something young parent who is still cool enough to remember what it is like to be the teenager, but now has to play the role of the grown-up who sets and enforces rules.
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The book will displease the noisy revisionists who want to play down the role of Europe in making us what we are -- even if our ancestors came from Africa or Asia.
Many of them stay at home or work part time in order to play the main caregiver role of the family.
The director fell in love with the new Camaro concept car and chose it to play the lead role of Bumblebee.
Mr Nukaga went to Japan saying he wanted to "play the role of mediator so that this year can be a good one for the two countries".
His elitist aesthetics and patrician diction supported a populist ethos that celebrated excellence in carpentry and art-making alike, and hoped to play down the role of money in ruling everything, a shaky position to maintain at any time and maybe impossible to duplicate by anyone brave enough to emulate his example.
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It remains to be seen whether the refusal of Syriza or the Five-Star Movement to play a constructive role in the government of their crisis-hit countries will diminish their effectiveness as an electoral force.
Moving greeters closer to checkout zones is intended to have them play the role of a human GPS directing shoppers to shorter checkout lines or to products in the store.
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It was probably Mr Bozize's biggest political mistake, as it opened the way for Mr Djotodia to shrewdly play the dual role of peace-maker and rebel leader until he finally seized power in Bangui.
It's difficult for results-oriented American sports fans to grasp, but for many soccer fans, the object of the game is never simply to win but to win beautifully and to play a role in the evolution of the game as an organic work of art.
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