Long Island has played a prominent role in scientific research and in engineering.

He took part, with a prominent role, in the annually held Bilderberg private conference.

A more prominent role for the polluter pays principle in the preamble was recommended.

Developed countries have played a prominent role in the implementation of the regional networks.

They first get a more prominent role in the later story Only a Poor Old Man .

The newly created Strategic Communications Division was playing a prominent and positive role in that process.

In this area also, the networking role of INSTRAW is not prominent.

Another danger lies in the prominent role in the revolution of multi millionaires.

In that position, he played a prominent role in the reconstruction of Detroit following a devastating fire in 1805.

Despite his prominent role, his identity was kept a secret from the public for most of his career.

It was suggested that the Innocenti Research Centre play a prominent role in the research priorities of the plan.

Australia played a prominent role in negotiation of the Additional Protocol and was the first country to ratify such a Protocol.

Some prominent senators even suggested that very large European banks represented something of a role model for the United States.

The United Nations must play a more prominent role in the consideration of the issues of global economics and development.

The Security Council had a busy programme of work in September 2004, with African issues taking a prominent role during the month.

In June 2010, it was announced that Drake would have a prominent role in the video game Gears of War 3 .

Prominent human rights activist Abdul Hadi Al Khawaja is currently in prison, serving a life sentence for his role in the protests.

Moreover, women played a significant role in higher education, and a number of prominent Turkish women had served in senior positions with United Nations agencies.

At the same time, civil society and non governmental organizations should play a more prominent role at all levels of conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

These measures dovetail into the emphasis placed in the present report on strengthening the private sector, which should play a prominent role in Africa's development.

He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II.

Sami was a prominent plastic surgeon.

Assefa played a prominent role during and after the Ethiopian student movement of the 1970s not only through his writing but also by organizing various political groups.

It was important for UNCTAD to contribute to those debates and processes in order to nurture its rightful prominent role in development.

Early in the French Revolution, the Paris militia, which played a prominent role in the storming of the Bastille, wore a cockade of blue and red, the city's traditional colours.

Sami was a prominent Cairo plastic surgeon.

Al Jazeera, for instance, played a prominent role in reporting the uprisings in several Arab countries, but netizens say it seems to ignore the events currently unfolding in Sudan.

After the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967, with new waves of refugees, Palestinian women took on a more prominent political, economic and social role.

Fadil was a prominent doctor in the area.

Despite various, though limited, roles in the armies of past societies, the role of women in the military, particularly in combat, is controversial and it is only recently that women have begun to be given a more prominent role in contemporary armed forces.

The biggest challenge to the notion of the universality of attachment theory came from studies conducted in Japan where the concept of amae plays a prominent role in describing family relationships.

IAPSO could perhaps be given a more prominent role in the procurement of common user items, including transport equipment and services in which it has built up many years of expertise.

Sami rebuilt his life and became a prominent doctor.

He is a prominent member of the Lebanese Forces.

The rapid pace of urbanization and the growth of informal settlements and slums have created an urgent need for Governments to play a prominent role in designing and implementing sustainable sanitation systems.

Several prominent American politicians have voiced support for a boycott.

Mahlet Solomon, a prominent opinion leader, wrote on her Facebook

He comes from a family of prominent human rights advocates.

Instead of entrusting America with the arduous task of safeguarding international stability on its own, the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) will assume a more prominent role in policing their own backyards.

Each summer, the prominent Ukrainian businessman Victor Pinchuk organizes a major international conference, the Yalta European Strategy, attended by the Ukrainian elite and prominent foreigners.

A cellular architecture is a type of computer architecture prominent in parallel computing.

Diaspora politics is the political behavior of transnational ethnic diasporas, their relationship with their ethnic homelands and their host states, as well as their prominent role in ethnic conflicts.

The Millennium Development Goals were a prominent expression of that agenda, and the decisions of the Committee would play a crucial role in efforts to maximize the impact of the decisions taken at the various conferences and summits.

These investments also support Africa s drive toward greater mobility, higher productivity, and a more prominent role in world trade. And, by fostering competition for projects and mobilizing a more diverse pool of investors, they have enhanced Africa s economic security.

Nationalism has been a prominent element in Chinese media in recent years.