She had no idea his fling had been with Becky Granger, a supporting character who slowly rose to more prominent status.

In the 1960s, Marvin was given prominent supporting roles in such films as The Comancheros ( 1961 ), John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance ( 1962 ), and Donovan's Reef ( 1963 ), all starring John Wayne, with Marvin's roles getting larger with each film.

Marvin's immediately previous co-star Robert Shaw accepted the part, which gave Shaw his most prominent role and vaulted the supporting player into mainstream leading man status.

He was a prominent supporting character in the 1937 film Fire Over England, starring Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and Flora Robson.

Thin reticular fibers, elastin and reticular fibers form a supporting meshwork called reticular network ( RN ) inside the node, within which the white blood cells ( WBCs ), the most prominent ones being lymphocytes, are tightly packed as follicles in the cortex.

Author China Mieville cast Anansi as a prominent supporting character in his first novel, King Rat, published in 1998.

There is no firm supporting evidence, but the Radclyffe's were prominent Roman Catholics and were acquainted with the Catesby family.

Ackbar played a supporting role in the 1983 film Return of the Jedi, and later became a prominent character in the novels, comic books and other media of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.

Coors family members have played a prominent role in American politics and public policy, supporting many conservative causes.

Ogier are also very long-lived compared to humans: Loial, a prominent supporting character, is considered by his elders the impetuous and irresponsible equivalent of a 15-year-old human teenager, despite being 90 years of age.

Based in part on empirical research that has been conducted on the adverse effects of stigmatization, numerous prominent social science organizations have issued position statements supporting same-sex marriage and opposing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation ; these organizations include the American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Psychological Association.

The FoR had a prominent role in acting as a support network for Christian pacifists during the war and supporting them in the difficult choice to become conscientious objectors-and in taking its consequences, which in many cases included imprisonment.

Jackson's first term as mayor also coincided with the Atlanta Child Murders case between 1979-81, which he played a prominent role in resolving, both in supporting the Atlanta Police and other police forces in the area, but also by endeavoring to calm the huge amount of public tension that arose because of these serial killings.

He was a prominent figure during the May 68 crisis, supporting the auto-gestionary project.

He took rather a prominent part in the discussions at the council, associating himself with Félix Dupanloup and with Georges Darboy, archbishop of Paris, in his opposition to the doctrine of Infallibility, and supporting their arguments from his vast knowledge of ecclesiastical history.

Ishiwara is a prominent supporting character in the Japanese alternate history manga and anime Zipang.

* Daphne " Daffy " Matsumoto: a rich young friend of Maggie and Hopey who is a prominent supporting character in the early comics, but later goes off to college.

Barrett has fought prominent campaigns ; for Trade Justice, against Post Office closures, opposing the war in Iraq, supporting renewables and opposing nuclear power, against the replacement of Trident and for a number of animal welfare issues alongside the Scottish SPCA, including one to ban the trade in cat and dog fur.

Clements was succeeded in the Tribune chair by Chris Mullin, who steered the paper into the supporting of Tony Benn ( then just past the peak of his influence on the Labour left ) and attempted to turn it into a workers ' co-operative, much to the consternation of the old Bevanite shareholders, most prominent among them John Silkin and Donald Bruce, who dominated the paper's board.

Despite her more prominent role in the short, Petunia is only a supporting character ; Porky remains the star.

Kinesis played concerts supporting numerous bands, the most prominent of which were ; Linkin Park, Muse, Manic Street Preachers, Biffy Clyro, Hundred Reasons and Lostprophets.

Detective Sergeant Tom Daniels ( John Alkin ) is the most prominent member of the supporting Squad.

* Classical architectural details: balustrades, pilasters, garlands, cartouches, acroteria, with a prominent display of richly detailed clasps ( agrafes ), brackets and supporting consoles

The supporting cast includes William Bishop as a politician who provokes the war and Alexander Scourby as a prominent cattle rancher.

The latter plays a prominent role in Roman Catholic theology and is considered decisive, entirely apart from Scripture, in determining the ethical character of birth-prevention methods.

The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.

It also found a prominent role in the desktop video, video production, and show control business, leading to affordable video editing systems such as the Video Toaster.

Abbaton is also said to have a prominent role in the Last Judgement, as the one who will take the souls to the Valley of Josaphat.

The committees ( see below ) play a prominent role in this process.

Because of this growth, regional and state organizations began to assume a more prominent role in the governance of the sport.

As a sidelight to his prominent role in changing the game to the power game, the frequency and popularity of Ruth's home runs eventually led to a rule change pertaining to those hit in sudden-death mode ( bottom of the ninth or later inning ).

Christianity has played a prominent role in shaping of Western civilization.

The church became a strong and public champion of monogamy and the nuclear family, and at times played a prominent role in political matters.

Her prominent, protagonist role in Heroes was supported by a strong fan-base and provided a positive image for high school cheerleading.

Raymond became a prominent voice in the open source movement and co-founded the Open Source Initiative in 1998, taking on the self-appointed role of ambassador of open source to the press, business and public.

Eusebius succeeded Agapius, as Bishop of Caesarea soon after 313 and played a prominent role at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

It was this determined resistance to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy and the dechristianisation campaigns that played a major role in the re-emergence of the Catholic Church as a prominent social institution.

In particular, the events in Berlin precipitated the Greater Poland Uprising, where peasants in Prussia, who were by then largely enfranchised, played a prominent role.

Ramiz Alia, at the time a candidate-member of the Politburo and Hoxha's adviser on ideological questions, played a prominent role in the rhetoric.

After World War II, extensive resources were put into teaching and researching the discipline, with the hopes that it would help the public better understand both science and technology as they came to play an exceedingly prominent role in the world.

Many of the signatories would play a prominent role in Israeli politics following independence ; Moshe Sharett and Golda Meir both served as Prime Minister, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi became the country's second president in 1952, and several others served as ministers.

Like Leander, he played a prominent role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville.

He embraced Marxism ( but did not join the Communist Party ) and took a prominent role in the struggle against French rule in Algeria.

In France, Germany, and other European countries, socialist parties and democrats played a prominent role in forming and building up trade unions, especially from the 1870s onwards.

The incident plays a prominent role in Günter Grass's novel The Rat.

One of southeastern Asia's prominent environmental concerns, deforestation has played a major role in flooding in the region.

While it is hard to assess the significance of military archery in pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon warfare, it is clear that archery played a prominent role under the Normans, as the story of the Battle of Hastings shows.

Musicians and singers played a prominent role in Greek theater.