1.   Men appear to be no more willing to support women in their traditional roles than women are to assume them.

2.   Parents have been given a bigger role than ever before.

3.   England captain David Platt played in a more attacking role than usual but his team looked bereft of confidence and ideas.

4.   Although a participant in Apec, Taiwan has always had a lower-level role than other members.

5.   Although Gore would rely more heavily on a government role than Bush, both candidates see the market as the most powerful force for addressing energy problems.

6.   American musicians have a far weaker role than their counterparts abroad.

7.   And as men assume less dominating family roles than their fathers had, men and women alike are buying rugged, assertive-looking sport vehicles for different reasons.

8.   And by the way, there are more of them in starring roles than blacks.

9.   And in that great untold tale, surely no one played a stranger or more dramatic role than the slightly scary Jay Lovestone, the Machiavelli of Machiavellis.

10.   And education might play a larger role than the former surgeon general imagined.