The federal government has historically viewed public schooling as a local matter in which Washington plays only a peripheral role.

I had a peripheral role at Lampoon during its decline.

Remarkably, electoral fraud appears to have played only a peripheral role.

During the remaining months of the year it continued to play a peripheral role in the fighting at Ypres.

The socialist parties played a peripheral role in the revolution of 1905.

Hickey played a more peripheral role during the 2012 championship.

He said he had played a peripheral role in the original purchase.

Even in the actual process of being married, she played a peripheral role.

Nowadays religion plays only a peripheral role when it comes to treatment.

Medium-sized bombers would have been used in a peripheral role.