1.   Age-sensitive political issues such as Social Security and Medicare will play a major role in the campaign, of course.

2.   Britain played a major role in the negotiations.

3.   Class interests are often regarded as playing a major role in the way political institutions develop.

4.   During the tumultuous years that followed, Nottinghamshire was to play a major role in the bitter conflict.

5.   Geography too came to play a major role in shaping the social life of the city.

6.   Gorbachev also was quick to admit that the process of globalization played a major role in cracking open the closed Soviet society.

7.   Here in Britain we see a major role as key worker, or care manager, coordinating welfare services as well as health care.