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  • noun The quality of being a protagonist.

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  • noun active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something

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Examples

  • Here then is the real question the word "protagonism" conceals, which this year's Meeting proposes for our reflection: In what does happiness consist?

    Archive 2008-09-01 papabear 2008

  • Here then is the real question the word "protagonism" conceals, which this year's Meeting proposes for our reflection: In what does happiness consist?

    Archive 2008-08-31 papabear 2008

  • Here then is the real question the word "protagonism" conceals, which this year's Meeting proposes for our reflection: In what does happiness consist?

    Zenit: Pope's Message to Rimini Meeting papabear 2008

  • It is not a matter of either antagonism or protagonism for any specific cause.

    Global Voices in English » Russia: Medvedev Murder Mystery 2009

  • The upcoming liberation of Moncayo and Calvo is seen by the FARC as one way to regain political protagonism.

    Colombia: What's on the Mind of the FARC? 2010

  • The upcoming liberation of Moncayo and Calvo is seen by the FARC as one way to regain political protagonism.

    Aldo Civico: Colombia: What's on the Mind of the FARC? 2010

  • At the congress, which has unofficially already started, delegates will approve party statutes and other legal matters but the main thrust of the Congress will be to assess the seven strategic lines of the Simon Bolivar National Project (2007-2021), which are: a new socialist ethic, socialist productive model, revolutionary democratic protagonism (popular power), supreme social happiness, new national geopolitics, new international geopolitics and Venezuela as an energy power.

    Venezuela's Chavez wants to see a united PSUV coming out of weekend congress 2009

  • Momentum has been building in film for a complete banishment of human beings from roles of protagonism for a long time.

    Joshua David Stein: WALL-E and The Fall of Man 2008

  • The Holy Father hopes that these reflections will help those taking part in the meeting to encounter Christ, to understand the value of Christian life better and to achieve its meaning in the humble protagonism of service to the mission of the Church, in Italy and throughout the world.

    Zenit: Pope's Message to Rimini Meeting papabear 2008

  • This is the protagonism that the title of this year's Rimini Meeting seeks to propose anew.

    Zenit: Pope's Message to Rimini Meeting papabear 2008

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