But I don't want them to occupy so central a role.

Despite this, they occupy a similar role in each state.

Agriculture occupies a central role in the economy of the district.

Europe occupies a smaller role in current American plans and concerns.

Surprisingly, among the inside players the bureaucracy did not occupy a particularly important role.

But it might also be that they occupy different roles in these conflicts.

Before the law change 4,400 women only occupied medical or musical roles within the German armed forces.

But as a museum curator I occupy a different role than a professor of art history.

Now, both of them are occupying important roles for the Mets.

These centers have grown to occupy an ever more dominant role in the country's government, financial, manufacturing and cultural life.