After the battle, the Gepids were never again able to play a formative role in the shaping of events.

His childhood experience of exile plays a formative role in his artistic practice.

The book examines young Chaplin's early childhood experiences and the formative role they later played in shaping his art.

He also mentions the formative role of cinceclubes, or film societies.

I think that the steady diet of musicals and country music played a formative role in my language development.

State agencies have also played a formative role in limiting the damage recessions impose on large firms.

The club played a major formative role in the growth of disco music and nightclub culture in general.

His father, he said, played a formative role in his son's philanthropy, teaching him the values of giving back and fighting injustice.

So informative and formative role of the library, had effects on growth.

The formative role played by his work as a youthful Sunday school teacher is brought out particularly clearly.