"Egypt at the crossroads domestic stability and regional role".

There could have been few more arresting demonstrations of his country's rapidly evolving regional role.

Japan is still too jittery about its regional role to try anything so ambitious.

But we reject any attempts to have a regional or international role in solving the Iraqi issue.

The campus was moved to the current site in 1942 because the school had outgrown its current location and taken on a more regional role.

Singapore already has reason to be nervous as Malaysia embarks on a number of development projects that could cut into its regional role.

The university plays a regional role in training teachers, nurses, social care professionals and further education lecturers.

Finally, we must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role.

The 40,000 American troops scattered around several bases in Japan still play a broad regional role.

In the west, Sweden followed a policy of neutrality, but during the 1920s it took a more active regional role.