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играть большую роль | play a big role |
играть второстепенную роль в парламенте | be marginalized in parliament (о мелкой политической партии ssn) |
играть гипертрофированную роль | play an outsized role (cnn.com Alex_Odeychuk) |
играть роль "отбирателя голосов" | play the spoiler (In the presidential election of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt played the "spoiler role" by garnering enough support to cost William Howard Taft, the Republican incumbent, the election. VLZ_58) |