21.   On this day, the veterans are fulfilling their role.

22.   Russia is no longer strong enough to fulfill that role, so China has been widely promoted as a replacement.

23.   She finds that the two sexes fulfill separate roles.

24.   The mass media has gradually been given free rein to fulfill its role as public watchdog.

25.   There has never been a credible place to fulfill this role.

26.   Vienna and Venice fulfill their roles admirably, and so does London.

27.   But if they are afraid that they remain idle they will be accused of not fulfilling their role as the opposition.

28.   But utility issues fulfilled their role as an alternative to more volatile stocks.

29.   De Grave said the downsizing still would allow Dutch participation in humanitarian missions throughout the world and enable the Netherlands to fulfill its roles within NATO.

30.   For Auberon Waugh, an often curmudgeonly essayist with royal sympathies, Diana fulfilled a role left partially vacant by Queen Elizabeth, her former mother-in-law.