The strait has often played a strategic role in history.

Nevertheless, such a corner sacrifice is sometimes played for some strategic purpose ( like retaining mobility ).

The Italians set up the Camera di Commercio Italiana di Montevideo ( Italian Chamber of Commerce of Montevideo ) which played a strategic role in trade with Italy and building up the Italian middle class in the city.

It played similarly to the NORAD side of the " Global Thermonuclear War " game, where the United States had to be defended from a Soviet strike by placing bases and weapons at strategic points.

One year later, barbed wire was also extensively used in the Boer War, where it played a strategic role bringing spaces under control, at military outposts as well as to hold the captured Boer population in concentration camps.

It was of strategic importance during the 18th-century colonial conflicts between Great Britain and France, and again played a role during the American Revolutionary War.

For centuries, Verdun had played an important role in the defense of its hinterland, due to the city's strategic location on the Meuse River.

He played a leading role in normalizing U. S .– PRC relations and in the development of joint strategic cooperation, cultivating a relationship with Deng Xiaoping, for which he is thought very highly of in mainland China to this day.

He played a major role in the second half of that conflict as a strategic advisor, military commander, and politician.

The city played an important strategic and commercial role at the edges of Central Europe for several centuries.

The Congaree River has always played a dominant role of strategic importance in Cayce's development.

It was not only the role that France played in the war which was recognized, but its important strategic position and significance in the Cold War as a major democratic, capitalist nation of Western Europe in holding back the influence of communism on the continent.

The 3270 played a strategic role in IBM's product line, making its selection a natural choice for large data centers of the day.

A notable Ferengi pastime is the strategic game Tongo, played with cards and a roulette wheel.

* Caravan, a strategic card game played in the game Fallout: New Vegas

He was a gambler, who played the odds with strategic vision and tactical flair.

Formerly known as Mueang Thung Yai, Trat has played an important role in the development of country ’ s stability and economy due to its strategic location.

During World War I, Mount Carmel played a significant strategic role.

Throughout the history of the dynasties of the Muslim West, Oujda played an important strategic role among the Merinids, settled in Fes, in this case as a rear base in their conflict with the Abdalwadids of Tlemcen.

The extent to which the Danish resistance played an important strategic role has been the subject of much discussion.

Bran played a militarily strategic role up to the mid-18th century.

Despite leading the invasion of the Falkland Islands, in both strategic and tactical aspects the Argentine fleet played only a small part in the subsequent conflict with the Royal Navy.

The ARA San Luis submarine also played a strategic role, although she scored no hits.

In Antiquity, the city played an important role due to its strategic location, controlling the narrow coastal plain that connected southern Greece with Thessaly and the rest of the Balkans.

Dunnottar played a strategic role in the history of Scotland from the Middle Ages through to the Enlightenment, because of the location: it overlooked the shipping lanes to northern Scotland ; and is situated on a narrow coastal terrace that controlled land access to the coastal south via Portlethen Moss to Aberdeen during the medieval period.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

He played the leading role in negotiating the treaty with Great Britain that ended the Revolution, and directed America's foreign affairs throughout the Confederation period.

To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.

It was here that the terror-stricken Dennis Moon played an unrehearsed role during the children's party.

At the end of work one day, the personnel man took the applicants one at a time, asked them to sit behind the receptionist's desk and he then played the role of a number of people who might come to the receptionist with a number of queries and for a number of purposes.

She was hired and was found to be entirely satisfactory when she played the role eight hours a day.

And the authors give numerous instances of calculated guessing on the patient's part to show how large a role it played in his process of readapting himself and how proficient he became at it.

Now a quiet-spoken, middle-aged man, Fiedler is an aeronautical engineer for Lockheed's Missiles and Space Division at Sunnyvale, where he played a key role in the development of the Navy's Polaris missile.

Greek Christian scribes played a crucial role in the preservation of Aristotle by copying all the extant Greek language manuscripts of the corpus.

In order to prepare the role of an important old actress, a theatre student interviews three actresses who were her pupils: an international diva ( Glòria Marc, played by Núria Espert ), a television star ( Assumpta Roca, played by Rosa Maria Sardà ) and a dubbing director ( Maria Caminal, played by Anna Lizaran ).

Transatlantic travel played a major role in the expansion of Western civilization into the Americas.

As of 2007, economic relations played " a fundamental role in the bilateral relations between the two governments ".

In the past and present, amateur astronomers have played a major role in discovering new comets.

Joan Hickson played the lead role.

Astronomy certainly played an important role in Chaco culture, as it is visible in the north-south axis alignment of many ceremonial structures.

Azerbaijan is an economy that has completed its post-Soviet transition into a major oil based economy ( with the completion of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline ), from one where the state played the major role.

In the early 1990s, the latter group blamed Armenia's economic woes on the role played by the former in closing major industries.

The formal study of architecture in academic institutions played a pivotal role in the development of the profession as a whole, serving as a focal point for advances in architectural technology and theory.

The afterlife played an important role in Ancient Egyptian religion, and its belief system is one of the earliest known.

The river played an important role in the growth of the economy in the region during the 19th century as a source of transportation of goods.

Aachen was the administrative centre for the coal-mining industries in neighbouring places to the northeast ; it never played any role in brown coal mining, however, neither in administrative or industrial terms.

But now the evidence of Tell Leilan, and recent findings of elevated dust deposits in sea-cores collected off Oman, that date to the period of Akkad's collapse suggest that this climate change may have played a role.