Today, ever anxious to assert itself as a world power, France is hoping to show that it can play an independent role.

Now the Brigade was again to be given an independent role.

But does the actual wrongness of murder play an independent role?

She declined in order to maintain her independent role outside of academia.

Much of his work concerns the independent role of educational and cultural factors.

Technology has an essential, but not independent, role to play in meeting the demand for a vastly more productive education system.

MacDonald, however, maintained that he was attempting to play an independent role.

They have an independent role, akin to that of a referee.

In this model, the Council no longer fulfils an independent, decision-making role.

After the 18th century, illicit relationships took on a more independent role.